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Students pick up their pencils as year begins

Start of school largely met with optimism

Thursday, September 4, 2008

By Cari Scribner
Gazette Reporter

Happily or reluctantly, students stepped off of buses and headed back to school Wednesday in several area districts.

To view a video report on the opening of one of these area schools, the new Barkley MicroSociety Magnet School in Amsterdam, click here....

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