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AHS choir wins Sweepstakes

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The Athens High School Varsity Choir earned the coveted “Sweepstakes” award Monday at the UIL concert and sightreading contest in Carthage. Varsity students received a superior rating from every single judge in both concert and sightreading. In addition, the treble choir earned a rating of 2 (“excellent”) in sightreading and 1 (“superior”) in concert. This marks the second time in three years the varsity choir has earned Sweepstakes at UIL. The choir is under the direction of Bridget Scott, who is in her second year. (Courtesy photo)

It takes a village to support the arts

By Carolyn Ellis/Special to HCN

Overflowing as I am with creativity this time of year, it’s no surprise that I have been putting a lot of energy into trying to find new local venues for my artwork. Last month I landed enough space at Callaway Coffee and Bistro to exhibit eight paintings and six pen and inks. This month, attorney Samuel Smith of Samuel Smith Law at 219 N. Palestine has kindly allowed me to rent an unused conference room, which has its own entrance to the street, for the months of April and May, meaning for at least two months I have my own studio – Studio 219 – right in the heart of the Athens Art District!

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Henderson County Performing Arts Center to stage ‘Getting Sara Married’

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Aunt Martha, played by local favorite Mary McCreary, is determined to get her niece married. Sara, played by Malinda McAteer, is resistant. She likes her life, her apartment and her space. She doesn’t want or need a man. But the wheels of progress have already been set in motion. Aunt Martha, who is just a tad bit whacko, hires Noogie, Gordon Mayhall, an entrepreneur with few scruples, to bonk the intended over the head and take him to Sara’s apartment. That’s the way the cavemen did it and they had a much lower divorce rate, according to Aunt Martha. What could go wrong?

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Remembering the beauty of small towns

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Carolyn Ellis

By Carolyn Ellis

This past Saturday I drove to Tyler to change out artwork in an alternative art venue (not a gallery), where I have been showing work for three months. Surprisingly, what happened is that instead of changing out artwork I ended up removing my entire exhibit (4 large canvases and three pen and inks) from this place and heading for home!

The details of what happened are not important. The bottom line is that one of the store managers hurt my feelings enough that I decided on the spot -after 3 months of feeling unwelcome every time I entered the door of this place – that I did not want to be part of this unpleasant scene any longer. The fact that I had a similar “ugly experience” in Dallas earlier in the week only made the Tyler encounter worse.

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