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Commerce BOE hires coaches in short meeting

Wednesday, May 15. 2019
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The Commerce Board of Education hired high school and middle school coaches Monday night as part of the personnel actions.

The BOE hired 33 coaches for 13 sports at Commerce High School. The board hired 13 coaches at the middle school for 13 sports.

Eleven other “supplemented” positions were filled at the high school. Those are for the band directors, head senior advisor and five senior advisors, band director literary coordinator, one-act play director, academic team advisor and yearbook advisor.

The board also hired five other people as teachers and paraprofessionals.

The board met in a work session Thursday and the regular meeting Monday. The two meetings together were less than 25 minutes.

Two dead, child injured in wreck involving school bus

Wednesday, May 15. 2019
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A couple is dead after a vehicle accident involving a Jackson County School System bus in Nicholson. A child in the vehicle was seriously injured as a result of the wreck.

Raymundo Tatgenhorst and Shianna Hibbitt were both pronounced dead at the scene. An elementary school age child passenger was rushed to Egleston Hospital.

Bus driver Carlton Carter told Jackson County Sheriff's Office deputies he was driving north on Hwy. 441 when he noticed the small vehicle containing Tatgenhorst and Hibbett lose control while driving south on Hwy. 441. He said their vehicle drove through the median and into the nose of Carter's bus.

Georgia State Patrol worked the accident along with JCSO deputies. At the time of publishing, GSP did not have a completed report.
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