North Druid Hills-Briarcliff Patch is looking for Whiz Kids. What's a Whiz Kid? It's a kid–or group of kids–who's awesome. A kid who has done or achieved something special, given in some way or made remarkable strides. Patch wants to honor them the best way we can: by giving them space each week to let readers know. So, each week, we want to hear from you in the community: Who do you think is a Whiz Kid and why? Send us a brief explanation of why: Your name Your e-mail address Whiz Kid's name Whiz Kid's age Whiz Kid's school Whiz Kid's accomplishment What makes said Whiz Kid great? If we pick…
DeKalb County School Watch stopped by the school system's headquarters this week for its forum with three finalists for our next superintendent. Here's an excerpt: I just returned from the long meeting at the board of education where each of the candidates was given 20 questions selected from those submitted by audience members before the meeting began. Personally, I was very impressed with all three candidates and it gave me great hope for the future of our school system. Overall, the candidates each expressed dedication to students first and foremost, teacher and principal training and …
Here's a brief update on Thomas Sowell, the 15-year-old Lakeside High School student who suffered a severe brain injury in a snowboarding accident in western North Carolina on Jan. 30. It's courtesy of the blog, Pray for Thomas S., which has been updated at least once every day with notes from Thomas' mother, Virginia, and his father, Jim. Here's one posted this afternoon. Thomas has undergone lots of tests – physical, mental, etc. This morning he was awakened at 7:00 for a blood draw, 7:30 for a shower (which he was able to do standing up) and off to therapy. He was able to WALK on his own. …
Want to add news headlines from the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area to your website or blog? Now, Patch has a way for users to do that. Patch's engineers have created a new widget that displays headlines my my site–North Druid Hills-Briarcliff Patch–as they're uploaded. It's part of a host of changes, including the addition of surrounding Patch community headlines to our homepage and our new free classified ads. The widget is easily customized. So, if you don't want every headline that scrolls across Patch's site, you can choose sections instead. So, if you want just sports headlines, you …
North Druid Hills-Briarcliff Patch is looking for Whiz Kids. What's a Whiz Kid? It's a kid–or group of kids–who's awesome. A kid who has done or achieved something special, given in some way or made remarkable strides. Patch wants to honor them the best way we can: by giving them space each week to let readers know. So, each week, we want to hear from you in the community: Who do you think is a Whiz Kid and why? Send us a brief explanation of why: Your name Your e-mail address Whiz Kid's name Whiz Kid's age Whiz Kid's school Whiz Kid's accomplishment What makes said Whiz Kid great? If we pick…
A call to moms throughout the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area: We need your voice. Patch is recruiting a small coterie of moms–between three and five dedicated souls–to help launch a new project aimed specifically at mothers in our community. These people will make up our Moms Council, which will help us answer other moms' questions, find notable kids throughout the community and reach out to other moms who want to see their perspective on North Druid Hills-Briarcliff Patch. We're looking for enthusiastic volunteers who are interested in offering their knowledge as a parent to others who …
For the past several weeks we've been working to build this site, finding writers to cover the news in the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area, building the most complete directory around, creating a community calendar and making it easy to use. We wanted to take this time to tell you why we're here and what this site is all about. Simply put, it's about you. We've built this Patch so that you have plenty of opportunities to comment on stories, share your opinions, post photos and announcements and add events to the community calendar. We hope that our site will strengthen the community, but we…
