Loretta Grissom of Atlanta Technical College received the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership award during ATC's annual Best in Class award ceremony.

Cleonna Trammell of Atlanta Technical College received the Exceptional Adult Georgian in Literacy Education award during ATC's annual Best in Class award ceremony.

Marisha Singleton of Atlanta Technical College received the Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Instruction during ATC's annual Best in Class award ceremony.

Allyson Bell of Buford was named to Southeast Missouri State University's dean's list.

Sarah Ferrero of Norcross was named to Graceland University's honors list.

William Pratt of Covington, Gudelia Ramirez Duarte of Lilburn, Khirsten Carter of Newnan and Ese Ataga of Powder Springs were named to Berea College's dean's list.

Forsyth County Sheriff's Deputy First Class Jon Beival received the Sons of the American Revolution Law Enforcement Commendation Medal.

Germaine Fowlis of Douglasville and Durrell Smoot of Union City were named to Champlain College's president's list.

Benjamin Heller and Taylor Jordan of Atlanta, Shakeda Jenrette of Lawrenceville, Kimberly Chavez of Villa Rica and Stephen Johnson of Woodstock were named to Champlain College's dean's list.

Ayanna Dickerson of Atlanta participated in Worcester Academy show, 'Urinetown: The Musical'.

Evan Cato of Clayton Elementary School won his school's spelling bee.

Erin Hammel of Bowdon was named to Dickinson State University's dean's list.

Forsyth County Procurement Director Donna Kukarola received the Manager of the Year award for 2017 from the Georgia Chapter of the National Institute of Public Procurement.

Katherine Davis and Amberlee Roark of Bogart; Bethany Canterbury and Riley Layton of Canton; Joseph Bowman, Angela Gaal and Abigail Whitehurst of Cumming; Jessica Blattel, Lauren Blattel, Matthew Bruce, David Burrow, Collin Rygh and Kristyn Rygh of Grayson; Frances Taylor of Hampton; Anna Aldridge, Ashlee Burrell, Christopher Webb and Kathryn Webb of Lawrenceville; Bethany Nething of Locust Grove; Lindsey Huggins, Marvell Lareche and William Parker of Marietta; Jonathan Beck and Kendall Rossiter of McDonough; James Efting of Roswell and Zifeng Wang of Tucker were named to Bob Jones University's dean's list.

John Ethan Thomas of Acworth; Paige Capponi, Lauren Dingmann, Sarah Gould, Liam Jagrowski, Abby Janis, Madison Kendrick, Grace Palmer, Peyton Prince, Suzanna Stapler, Richard Tyson and Hannah Walker of Alpharetta; Caillin Cooke, Caroline Culver, Elizabeth Day, Val Hoyt, Olivia Jones, Grant Kelly, Michael McConnell, Catherine McCreary, Ivey Redding, William Sheldon, Abigail Shelton, Steven Spears and Olivia Viergever of Atlanta; David Dennis of Auburn; Mamie Davis of Bogart; Elijah Grimes of Buford; Hadley Karandjeff of Cumming; Sophia Moll of Conyers; Rachel Wiggins of Dacula; Isaac Burrier of Dallas; Nicholas Blocha and Haley McDaniel of Decatur; Abbey Davis, Vivienne Emde, Heather Ferrari, Anna Park and Jenna Yost of Duluth; Emily Hollis, Jacqueline Jordan and Adam Stecker of Dunwoody; Alisa Chapman and Kyndal Kearns of Fayetteville; Bryn Levengood and Emma Robinson of Grayson; Mackenzie Carpenter of Hull; Soren Allen and Allene Gray of Johns Creek; Taryn Travis of Lawrenceville; Jordan Willett of Loganville; Alexandra Bartlett, Naomi Bartlett, Michael Denton, Kacie Goeppner, Daniel Mata, Abigail Menear, Emily Moosbrugger, Patrick Ring and Santiago Torres of Marietta; Abigail Evens, Karina Glushchak and Taylor Thomas of Milton; Dickson Currey and Andrew Singleton of Newnan; Drew Freeman and Emma McCullough of Norcross; Megan Beck and Jenane McCulloch of Peachtree City; Caroline Baker, Natalie Cataldo, Ansley Harmon, Megan McGaughey, Jillian Oreffice, Caroline Snellman and Thomas Wellington of Roswell; Sydney Wilke of Sandy Springs; Matthew Bligh of Suwanee, Megan Burchfield and Alexandria Nichols of Suwanee; Sarah Crowe of Watkinsville and Elizabeth Chapman and Emily Dini of Woodstock were named to Belmont University's dean's list.