Palmetto residents get a look at the future (The Fayette Citizen)
It was a meeting designed to have residents give their input on what the city of Palmetto will look like in the future. The Livable Centers Initiative (LCI) kick-off meeting Aug. 21 at Palmetto Community Center saw a room packed with residents wanting to meet their future head-on.
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Palmetto, Hallandale win tuneups (Miami Herald)
A major part of Miami Palmetto's offensive strategy is simple. Get running back Jamaal Berry the ball in open space. Berry benefited as Palmetto's offensive line was overpowering the entire game, leading it to a 21-6 victory over Miami Springs in a preseason game at Ted Hendricks Stadium.
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Hospital, prison agency act in wake of ER shooting (The State)
In a two-pronged response to an attempted suicide in a Columbia hospital emergency room, the state prison agency is reviewing its procedures and equipment while the hospital decided to open a separate waiting room for inmates. On Wednesday, questions were raised about how easily a woman patient was able to pull a gun from a prison officer’s holster and shoot herself in the head at Palmetto ...
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Basket weaving endures from African tool to American art (The Post and Courier)
Looping strips of palmetto fronds through coiled sweetgrass is slow poison. Squinting in concentration ruins the eyes, forcing a nail bone through the grass wrecks the hands and bending over the creations cripples the back. But Elijah Dumas of Mount Pleasant can't stop weaving, he said, sitting at Charleston's downtown Market.
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Fewer Collier high school students take SAT but score better (Naples Daily News)
Fewer Collier County high school students are taking the SAT to apply to colleges, but the students are still outpacing their peers statewide. Collier’s SAT verbal, math and writing mean scores for students taking the test in 2007-08 were 503, 511 and 488, respectively. The scores are higher than the state average of 496 verbal, 497 math and 481 writing.
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