One of Federal Hocking Local Schools’ mock trial teams will be heading to regional competition Friday.
Federal Hocking humanities teacher and mock trial coach Nick Warmke said of the six teams that participated in district competition — two from Federal Hocking, two from Jackson, one from River Valley and one home-school team — one of Federal Hocking’s teams won, and will participate in regionals.
The mock trial competition is put on every year through the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education. Competitors argue a specific case, and are judged based on how well they did so. Usually the cases are loosely based on existing Ohio or U.S. Supreme Court cases. This year’s district event was held Feb. 3.
As little as 25 years ago, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, disguised by the white hoods of their robes and bearing a symbol of white supremacy over their hearts, paraded through Athens carrying crosses and a centuries-long grudge.
But Ohio’s history with the Klan dates back to the 19th century, when a group of Civil War vets from the South founded the group to spread their theories about racial segregation to all corners of the country.
The Klan quickly decayed, but it reemerged soon after.
Trimble students create origami, may acquire international pen pals
JACKSONVILLE — Trimble Elementary and Middle School students may soon be getting overseas pen pals, thanks to a project involving Japanese origami.
Over the past couple of weeks, students in grades 3-8 have been making paper cranes for literacy consultant Dianne McCune to take to an educators’ conference in Tokyo. The cranes, which include the names of the students and a teacher email address, will be placed as table decorations at the conference and available for other attendees to take back to their own students.
“It’s a great chance for them to connect worldwide, and learn the culture of other children,” McCune said.
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Jackie O’s Brewery is hosting Coolville Hotclub’s CD release party this Saturday from 8-11 p.m. Snacks will be provided by Restaurant Salaam.
The Coolville Hot Club, based in Athens, first got together to play music inspired by gypsy-jazz musicians, Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. According to a release, the band’s name comes from the original band formed in the 1930s by Reinhardt and Grappelli: The Quintet of the Hotclub of Paris.
“Many modern-day players of this kind of music have their own adaptation of that name. There’s the Hotclub of Detroit, the Hotclub of San Francisco,” said Mark Burhans, violinist for the band. “I thought the name ‘Hotclub Sandwich’ would be pretty cool, but it was already taken. ‘Coolville Hotclub’ identifies us regionally, besides being a cool name all by itself.”
Virginia Moore says that Scott Hatfield “absolutely” deserves the Education Hero award he will receive next week from the American Red Cross of Southeastern Ohio.
Moore should know. She’s seen Hatfield in action.
Hatfield, who works for the Athens County Department of Job and Family Services, is being honored for the work he does in helping people get their GEDs. He’s a teacher in the Adult Basic Literacy Education program.
Thursday The Athens Messenger launched a new site (or, rather, moved their site to a new domain and put up a different header). They’re calling it “AthensOhioToday.com,” and the idea is that they’re putting up their newspaper content behind a paywall and then filling the site with free-to-access user-generated PSAs, photos, etc.
It seems their goal could be one of two things. Either they’re taking the CNN approach, where they can create more content without paying people to do it, or they’re hoping that by mimicking social media they’ll somehow increase their plummeting subscription base. Either way, is it going to work?
Will the fact that they’re a newspaper make people more likely to share things on their site, or are people already reaching a big enough audience by self-publishing on Facebook and Twitter? Will free content about upcoming recycling opportunities make people want to subscribe to The Messenger’s articles, or will people just continue to wait for Monday and Thursday when the same stories appear for free in the A-NEWS?
The Dragon’s Cup is the newest tea house in Athens, to open March 1 and replace GGs BubbleTea.
“I was looking for [a name] that really crossed cultures,” said lifelong Athens resident Dylan Armstrong, justifying the name of her new restaurant. “I have yet to run into a culture that does not have dragons in their folklore.” Although the name and ownership of the business at 19 South Court Street are different, the source of startup capital is not.
19 South Court has a tradition of failed businesses, the most recent of which is GG’s BubbleTea. GG’s former owner, John Baird, was looking to sell the shop before Armstrong, a self-proclaimed herbalist and tea-mixer, convinced Baird he should invest in her instead. Armstrong said he gave her a $10,000 startup fund, plus all the shop’s equipment and furniture to jumpstart her new business.
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