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From left, Kennesaw Mountain Magnet Program sophomores, Julie Evans, Christina Lee and Katie Thornburgh will be going to Peru later this month with the Leave A Trace Foundation to install water purification systems and check on the ones that they installed last year. Lee co-founded the organization focusing on access to clean water in other countries.
Staff/Laura Moon

Girls on mission to provide safe drinking water

by Lindsay Field

12:27 AM, Sunday, May 19

Kennesaw Mountain Magnet Program sophomores Julie Evans, Christina Lee and Katie Thornburgh are going to Peru later this monthto install water purification systems and check on the ones that they installed last year.

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Members of the Just Fitness 4U club’s Silver Sneakers program exercise with dumbbells Monday.
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Northeast Cobb District 3 Commissioner JoAnn Birrell (MDJ/ Laura Moon)

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Jeremy Abernathy, a 1997 McEachern graduate, is set to be installed today as the 19th pastor of Noonday Missionary Baptist Church, a church founded by African Americans in 1888. Abernathy practices family law and estate planning with The Manely Firm, located off the Square, and lives with his family in Marietta.<br>Staff/Emily Barnes

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Textbooks rejected: Board votes against books tied to Common Core | 04.26.13 - 12:45 am

Cobb schools' top investigator may be out | 05.11.13 - 12:32 am

Bank robbery drama unfolds across Cobb | 05.13.13 - 11:43 am

Men accused of bilking woman, 91, out of $2.8M | 05.02.13 - 12:27 am

CCSD investigator’s resignation follows supervisor’s termination | 05.15.13 - 12:31 am

Common Core makes sense, says governor | 04.26.13 - 12:43 am

Chris Kelly of 1990s rap duo Kris Kross dies | 05.02.13 - 08:59 am

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