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  • Photo: “Flow of Form” by Sharon Licata

Abstract art arrives

While Joan Templer was an architecture professor at Georgia Tech, she challenged students to think of new ways of presenting their designs, to move past the traditional and into something more bold and striking. In her career as an artist, she was doing the same thing. (full story)

 

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  • Photo: Bluffton High School's Harris Reeves, center left, and Battery Creek's Rhakeem Brown, center right, lead the pack at the start of the fourth annual Run for RET 5k race Saturday morning outside of Hilton Head Preparatory Academy in Sea Pines. Reeves placed third overall with a time of 17:49 while Brown finished fifth in 18:05. First place overall went to Hilton Head resident Brian Knapp, far left, in 16:52. Proceeds from the event go to RET Pediatric Cancer Foundation, founded in memory of Hilton Head Prep student Ret Thomas.
    Sarah Welliver | The Island Packet

County schools test their early legs with Run for Ret

Hilton Head Prep cross country coach Liz Nash wanted to use her team's first race of the season as a measure of how far the runners had come and what work was left to be done. (full story)


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