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Forsyth Schools cancels weekend activities

By Christopher Quinn
Jan 5, 2017

Forsyth County Schools has cancelled all after-school activities and athletics from Friday through Sunday. This does not include after-school childcare programs at schools.

For information on the rescheduling of activities and athletics, athletes should contact school coaches and sponsors.

You can keep up with other cancellations and news on the Forsyth County Schools website.

You can also read about how Forsyth and other school systems will decide to close schools if the weather turns bad on ajc.com.

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Christopher Quinn is a writer and editor who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1999. He writes stories on Veterans Affairs, business including high-tech growth in metro Atlanta, Georgia's $72 billion farm economy, and he oversees assigning and editing news obituaries.

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