Greene County baseball head coach Brad Evans has seen his team take great strides in his first year. The Tigers are having one of their best seasons in recent memory and have vastly improved since Evans took over.

Six special needs students from the Greene County School System recently brought a pair of gold medals back to Greensboro in two different sports from the Special Olympics Winter Games.

CCA to host special occasions boutique To call Leanne Parks and her 30-plus volunteers “Fairy Godmothers” would be an understatement. Parks is working with Greene County’s Board of Education (BOE) College and Career Academy (CCA) to sponsor a special occasions boutique at the Academy this Saturday.

Greene County High School hosted a special and historic event on Dec. 9 in its lunchroom. Greene County alumni and famous college football writer Tony Barnhart hosted a signing for his new book, “ The 19 of Greene,” about the first integrated football team in 1970 at GCHS.

“Transported … that’s the word … I was utterly transported!” I found myself repeating those words as I pondered this book review of The 19 of Greene by Tony Barnhart. I am not exaggerating.

Morgan County High School and Greene County High School recently hosted Homecoming games this past Friday. During halftime of each football game, each school introduced its Homecoming courts.

Greene County High School principal Eddie Hood and other school board members recently made the decision to hire Chad Smith as the Tigers new athletic director. Smith, most recently the athletic director at Central Gwinnett High School, steps into the position with 25 years of experience.

After a successful track-and-field season for both programs, Greene County sent 15 boys and nine girls to the GHSA Class A Division II state meet last Saturday in Columbus.

If you ever wanted to see a full auditorium of high school kids fall silent, you needed to be at Greene County High School’s presentation from a NASA Astronaut last week. Astronaut Joan Higginbotham, a 20-year veteran of NASA, flew on a Space Shuttle Discovery mission and was just the third African American woman to fly on a mission. It was a presentation of her life, career and journey into space and the special messages she took the time to share with the students.

At the end of April, Greene County track and field was preparing for a region championship. Now, the Tigers are getting ready for this weekend’s GHSA Class A Division II state championship meet in Columbus.