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Fogarty now deputy director for library system
Nicholas Fogarty has been named deputy director for the Northwest Georgia Regional Library System headquartered in Dalton. The system serves Whitfield, Gordon and Murray counties.
Fogarty was previously assistant director for administration. He will coordinate regional technical services and administrative functions such as federal, state and local reports, human resources, finance and fundraising.
Fogarty has 34 years of library-related experience, including having been director of three library systems in Connecticut, New Jersey and Georgia. Prior to joining the Northwest Georgia Regional Library System, Fogarty was assistant director of the Cobb County Public Library in Marietta and director of the Sequoyah Regional Library System in Canton. He obtained his master’s in library science from Southern Connecticut State University and a Certificate of Local Government Management from the University of Georgia.
He is a member of the Dalton Rotary Club, past president of the Rotary Club of Canton and past board member of the Marietta Rotary Club. He is former chair of North Georgia Associated Libraries and a past member of the Georgia Regents Public Library Advisory Committee.
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Derby time
Owen Halman, 8, of Dalton, lines up his car “Fire Bullet” before a race during the Boy and Cub Scouts grand championship Pinewood Derby Saturday at First Presbyterian Church.
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Helpin’ and paintin’
With his bracket busted and interest in the men’s college basketball tournament waning, Pierce Montgomery spent Saturday re-painting the Dalton home of a Vietnam veteran who couldn’t do the work himself.
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DSC officials explain possible cuts
Dalton State College officials know the state budget cuts they planned for almost a month ago won’t be as deep as expected. What they don’t know is exactly which of the proposed cuts they’ll have to implement.
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Higher education funding is at center of debate
More than 4,000 students, including several at Dalton State College, have banded together to push back against proposed state cuts to higher education funding.
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Local officials view possible cuts at college with concern
Dalton State College plays a big part in plans by local leaders to grow and diversify the area’s economy, so they are viewing proposed cuts to the college with some concern.
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Young couple awaits Habitat for Humanity home
Luis Sanchez knows how the Gutierrez family feels as they watch their house being built by the Dalton-Whitfield Habitat For Humanity.
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Superintendent decision coming Monday night
The Richland 2 school board in Columbia, S.C., has chosen a superintendent — Whitfield County Schools superintendent Katie Brochu was one of three finalists — but won’t publicly say who it is until Monday, according to The State newspaper.
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Area arrests for March 21
Recent arrests from the Whitfield and Murray County jail reports.
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Marilyn Helms: Companies vary on correcting products, services
In the first half of my column on my Dalton State College quality management systems class quality “problems” project, I discussed the situations that companies did not resolve.
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“Do You Remember?” cast announced
Members of Dalton Dance Company will perform in Dalton Arts Project’s “Do You Remember?” spring concert — a look back at the music they grew up with as well as the music enjoyed by previous generations of teenagers (now parents and grandparents).
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