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Tucker High School ValedictorianBenen Chancey GPA: 4.52Future College: University of GeorgiaIntended Major: Ecology How did you become valedictorian?I had the highest GPA. Seriously, though, I never had the goal of being valedictorian, so I’m not quite sure how it happened. […]

Tucker Turns Out to Roll Up Its Sleeves Eighteen-year-old Victoria Smash is at a stage in life where her social calendar should be fairly full. Between friends and prom and all the other demands of senior year, she should be […]

On April 20, the Tucker Cluster Council (TCC) held its final meeting of the school year. During that meeting, several members of the DeKalb County School District leadership team provided updates to the group on how things are going in […]

Coaching changes are pretty rare when you’re talking about the Tucker High School football team. So, when head coach Bryan Lamar left earlier this year to pursue a new opportunity, a lot of people were interested to see who would […]

Students, Parents, Teachers Bracing for a Return to Face-to-Face Learning For months, the issue of reopening schools was very much a partisan one. As cases of coronavirus have roller coastered up, then down, then to a holiday surge, and now […]

Young Women’s Efforts Assisting People at Home and Abroad Most high schoolers are doing well to find ways to make a difference in their community. But can you imagine a young teenager making an actual impact on a global scale? […]

School Set to Open to Students for 2021-’22 Academic Year With the scientific community coalescing around the notion that in-person learning is, in fact, the best and safest option for children, students across the DeKalb County School District are headed […]

DeKalb Schools Taking Precautions to Ensure Safe Sports Seasons Tens of thousands of students and parents across the DeKalb County School District have nearly completed their fall semester of virtual learning. That means hundreds of Zoom calls, virtual projects, tech […]

Virtual Learning Academies Popping Up to Give Working Parents a Choice Pick up and drop off are a little bit busier these days at Rehoboth Baptist Church. The church, which opened a very popular preschool in 2018, recently made the […]

Idlewood Teacher Using Photography to Enhance Global Perspective Photographer Steve McCurry traverses the globe documenting people from all walks of life. His work, captured in peacetime and wartime, has appeared on magazine covers and garnered multiple awards for its stark honesty and […]

Smoke Rise Prep Executing Hybrid Ed Strategy During COVID Outbreak Sometimes being small can have its advantages. Just ask the administration of Smoke Rise Prep, a private K-8 school on Hugh Howell Road here in Tucker. On August 19, thanks […]

This summer, I interned for the City of Tucker working directly for Assistant City Manager John McHenry and assisting other departments. This opportunity was especially important to me because I live and grew up in this area and have so […]