Barrow News-Journal

Scenes from Thursday's graduation ceremony at Winder-Barrow High School.

Photos from Wednesday's graduation ceremony at Apalachee High School.

GREAT NEWS The doctors have advised Keegan should be coming home Thursday afternoon November 19th. Keegan has spent the last few weeks combating Leukemia with ...fierce tenacity while undergoing many procedures and chemotherapy treatments. Coming home will be a milestone that will bring much-needed peace, comfort, and normalcy to the Parker family. We are happily inviting everyone to line the street as we bring Keegan home with a parade. Emergency vehicles will meet with Keegan and his family at 4:00 pm Thursday at the Ingles on Atlanta Highway in Auburn. We will then escort Keegan down Atlanta Highway through Winder. The parade will make a right onto Monroe Highway in front of the Winder Publix and end at the Bethlehem Church. The parade route is highlighted in the pic below. Once again, thank you for the love, support, thoughts, and prayers for Keegan and his family.

Update: The called school board meeting scheduled for Friday has been called off at chair Lynn Stevens' request. It has not been rescheduled at this point. Stevens had requested the meeting to discuss a proposal that certain employees be furloughed due to the district's recommendation and board's decision to start the school year entirely online. Superintendent Chris McMichael said he would not recommend furloughs.

Football scrimmages canceled, cheerleading moved to the winter sports season and one-act play tentatively scheduled for the spring.

The meeting, called after the BOE's vote in favor of beginning the school year entirely online, will be streamed on the school district's YouTube page at 6 p.m. Friday. It was called at Stevens' request and the proposal would apply to "assistant principals, media center specialists, lunch room workers, bus drivers, clerks, admins in front offices, coaches, p.e. Instructors, etc." Superintendent Chris McMichael said he would not recommend furloughs for those employees.