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Newspaper Page TextBoth Gatewood teams win GISA state championship titles aauAMiM ill! tli_ J Lake Oconee News J Your official newspaper serving Greene, Morgan and Putnam counties in Georgia's Lake Country \ www.LakeOconeeNews.us FRIDAY MARCH 11 2016 VOL. 18 NO. 10 75 CENTS MADISON'S GOT TALENT community » B1 'A SOUTHERN TAPESTRY' SELLS OUT community » B2 STAY CONNECTED n facebook.com/ lakeoconeenews □ @lakeoconeenews ©lakeoconeenews index Calendar B4-5 Churches B6 Classifieds D4 Community B1 Obituaries A6 Opinions A4 Recipes D1 Sports C1 FRIDAY 59/39 Partly Cloudy WEATHER »D7 0 94922 87855 7 Published by Smith Communications Inc. T. Michael Stone/Staff Anthony Cooper is a happy young man Saturday as he congratulates senior Emmanuel Little after the Morgan County Bulldogs captured the AAA state championship. The Lady Bulldogs also pulled off the daily double as they won the state crown earlier in the day at The Macon Coliseum. PLEASE SEE Cl FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE GREENE COUNTY LOA students score big on tests The College Board recently released the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qual ifying Test scores. The PSAT/NMSQT was ad ministered to all LOA ninth and 10th grade students in October, 2015. The results show that LOA students performed higher than the state average and the national average. The mean total score for LOA students is 1,037, the state is 900, and the nation is 931. LOA 10th grade students also met and sur passed another important benchmark on the Evi dence-Based Reading and Writing and Math assess ment. 100 percent of LOA 10th grade students met the ERW benchmark and 80 percent met the Math benchmark, which is an outstanding achievement. The percentage of students meeting both benchmarks is 80 percent for LOA students, 39 percent for the state, and 47 percent for the nation. The PSAT/NMSQT is a SEE LOA » A3 2015 PSAT / NMSQT 1520 1320 Mean Total Score ■ Lake Oconee Academy □ State ■ National GREENE COUNTY Harbor Club jumps to No. 3 on “best courses you can play” Harbor Club, a 1,000-acre lake and golf community located on the shores of Lake Oconee, has jumped to the No. 3 ranking among the “2016 Best Courses You Can Play” in Georgia, ac cording to Golfweek Magazine’s recently released annual ranking. The lofty recognition comes on the heels of a comprehen sive enhancement program at Harbor Club that touched every aspect of the golf course, includ ing expanded turf conditioning practices, an upgraded irriga tion system, extensive planting of flowering shrubs and trees, underbrush removal to open up view corridors and new cart paths and sand bunkers in certain places. Harbor Club also meticulously maintains the lake region’s only bent grass greens, widely regarded as the truest and smoothest putting surface in the sport. Harbor Club’s sweeping lakefront design was the first offering on the east coast from the esteemed architectural part nership of Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish back in 1991. The course touches the shoreline of Lake Oconee, Georgia’s second SEE HARBOR » A9 LAKE COUNTRY Daylight-saving time begins Daylight Saving Time is here. Agent Jim Boyd of Jim Boyd & Associates and the Georgia Arson Control Board would like to remind citizens in Morgan, Greene and Putnam County to change the batteries in their smoke detectors when they move their clocks forward an hour for Daylight Saving Time. Daylight Saving Time starts on Sunday, March 13, at 2 a.m. This is when clocks are set ahead one hour. Clocks should be set before bedtime Saturday evening. “The change from standard time to Daylight Saving Time is a good opportunity to make sure your smoke detector has fresh batteries and is functioning properly.” Boyd also recommends that the citizens of Morgan County replace batteries in flash lights, weather radios, and other safety devices used for household emergencies. Now Available at GREENSBOR i ^^eujuelexsy 118 N Main St • Greensboro, GA • (706) 453-9222 www.greensborogajewelers.com The Timeless Collection Made in America. Handcrafted in Rhode Island. www.JohnMedeiros.com All Rights Reserved © Copyright 2015, Tahoe Jewelry, Inc.