Don Keller, owner and CEO of Blue Sky Exhibits in Marietta, has been named the 2019 West Cobb Citizen of the Year.

Bill Westenberger, Police Chief with the city of Kennesaw, has been named the 2019 Kennesaw Citizen of the Year.

Shane Queen, head football coach at North Cobb High School, has been named the 2019 Acworth Citizen of the Year.

River Ridge High School senior Callie Goins and junior Maya Osborne achieved perfect ACT scores.

Barry Dalton of Hasty Elementary School Fine Arts Academy was named Cherokee County School District Teacher of the Year.

Ava Wimbush finished second-runner up at the National NAM Miss Pre-Teen Pageant representing the State of Georgia in Anaheim, Calif.

Dobbins flight engineer Chief Terry Studstill, a C-130 flight engineer, just reached 10,000 hours of flight time – a major milestone in an aviator's career.

Tom Bills, senior project manager overseeing Construction, SPLOST and GIS for Cobb County Parks, has been named a 2019 East Cobb Citizen of the Year.

Mack Cobb, Pope High School football coach for the Middle School Feeder Program since 1987, has been named a 2019 East Cobb Citizen of the Year.

A team of College of Education students from the University of North Georgia helped more than 150 high school students from across the state learn more about the teaching profession and how to prepare for it Nov. 7 at Future Georgia Educators Day: Kayla Aguirre, Georgiana DiMola, Anna Lloyd, Lindsey McCord and Julie Richards of Cumming, Lauren Colston of Brooks, Jaime Guadalupe and Colin Poole of Lawrenceville, Yadira Hernandez of Gainesville, Ross Mahan of Conyers, Jacqueline Mills of Buford, Emily Nesbit of Suwanee, Sara Turner of Lula.