Browse past news stories for Barrow Elementary School in Athens, GA.

• Vols Ben Martin on SEC Community Service team (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
  posted on November 25, 2009 at 08:39:18 pm
  The Southeastern Conference released its Community Service team today including one player from each of the 12 schools. Ben Martin was chosen to represent the Tennessee Volunteers.
• Grants go to 14 nonprofits (Athens Banner-Herald)
  posted on October 20, 2009 at 04:15:41 am
  The Athens Area Community Foundation has awarded $25,000 in grants to 14 local nonprofits to help fund antipoverty initiatives.
• Editorial: Foundation fulfilling promise of OneAthens (Athens Banner-Herald)
  posted on October 19, 2009 at 04:15:42 am
  For the second time this year - and less than two years after its inception - the Athens Area Community Foundation has awarded grants totaling $25,000 to address local needs in youth development, economic development, health care access and community-building. The latest round of awards pushes the total amount of grants made by the foundation - funded by donations from a number of sources - to ...
• Drivers stop for International Walk to School Day (Athens Banner-Herald)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 04:39:20 am
  The morning rain couldn't keep first-graders Elise and Amanda Okech from making the quarter-mile trek to Timothy Road Elementary School with their father in tow.
• School desegregation pioneer, educator dies (Athens Banner-Herald)
  posted on September 12, 2009 at 04:03:00 am
  Milton Hill, a respected educator and pioneer of desegregation in the Clarke County School District, died Thursday at his Athens home. Hill, 81, was one of Athens' oldest black educators and served as principal of the all-black West Broad Street School, leading it through integration in 1970.
• Editorial: Kudos to outstanding Clarke educators (Athens Banner-Herald)
  posted on August 3, 2009 at 04:25:00 am
  Their names were mentioned late last week in the news columns of this newspaper, but that was not a venue where the 11 Clarke County School District educators who earned recognition from the local Foundation for Excellence in Public Education could be properly congratulated.
• Grant will make Five Points more ped-friendly (Athens Banner-Herald)
  posted on June 8, 2009 at 04:03:00 am
  Athens residents will have an easier time walking around busy Five Points thanks to a state grant.
• Author shows kids they, too, can tell stories (Athens Banner-Herald)
  posted on March 18, 2009 at 04:12:10 am
  Like a writer's workshop, but for 10- and 11-year-olds, 60 Barrow Elementary School students gathered Tuesday to get a few tips from award-winning children's book author Deborah Wiles about how professionals come up with good story ideas.