Woodstock city officials urge all citizens and businesses to make or update a disaster plan during the month of September, which has been declared Natural Preparedness Month by the Department of Homeland Security. As we continue to respond to COVID-19, there’s no better time to update your plan. You can find resources to help you at ready.gov. The Department of Homeland … [Read more...]

Teacher creates community to support distance learners. Two days before the June 17 deadline to choose between digital or face-to-face learning for the new school year, I was making every attempt to determine what was best for my sons. I researched medical websites and studied fact-checkers that analyzed news reports. I sought the advice of my retired-educator parents. My … [Read more...]

This past spring, Woodstock officially adopted its first citywide sustainability plan. This is a significant milestone on the community’s path to going green, building on 10 years of climbing the ranks of the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Green Communities program. The plan begins by detailing responses from the public input series, which guided visioning sessions and … [Read more...]

Congratulations to Baileigh Borna of Mill Creek Booth Middle School. She was selected as the eighth-grade winner of the Cherokee County School District’s second annual Short Story Competition. The competition is open to all CCSD seventh- and eighth-grade students as a part of their English Language Arts studies. Each middle school submits its best entries to be considered, … [Read more...]

Cherokee County continues to move rapidly into the future. The quiet rural county of yesterday has become Georgia’s seventh largest. We’ll likely double again in population over the next 25 years, even with careful growth management. We have to conduct ourselves like the county we are, and prepare for the county we will become. Cherokee County hasn’t had a public … [Read more...]