Friday, September 28, 2012
Kathleen Angelucci, who represents North Cobb, was one of two board members who voted against the measure.
One of three staff furlough days imposed by the Cobb Board of Education for the 2012-13 school year has been eliminated. By a 5-2 vote, the board granted on Thursday a paid workday to teachers and support staff that will cost the Cobb County School District an estimated $3 million, to come from reserve funds. Voting against the measure were Tim Stultz, of Post 2 in the Smyrna area, and Kathleen Angelucci, of Post 4 in North Cobb. They objected because of another significant deficit anticipated for the 2013-14 school year. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said no detailed analysis has been done yet, but estimated the hole will be "at least" $40 million. In May, the board approved the three furlough days in closing a $62 million gap to …
Friday, March 16, 2012
The Sprayberry freshman recovered in Florida from the critical injuries she suffered in the I-75 crash that killed her family.
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Friday, March 16, 2012
Lidiane Carmo of Kennesaw has left the hospital a month and a half after the horrific interstate pileup that killed her family. The 15-year-old freshman at Sprayberry High School was the last of 22 survivors of the Interstate 75 crashes near Gainesville, FL, Jan. 29 to leave Shands at the University of Florida hospital, the Gainesville Sun reported. She was still at the hospital Tuesday, 44 days after the accident, but was gone Thursday when the Sun checked again. Lidiane’s pastor, the Rev. Aaron Amazonas, had posted a message March 8 on Facebook that she was getting better and was just waiting to be released. He included a photo of a healthy-looking Lidiane posted by her maternal uncle, Fabio Souza. “We had some very good news about …
Sunday, February 12, 2012
More than $50,000 has been raised for funeral arrangements and Lidiane’s medical bills.
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
The funeral for Kennesaw’s Carmo family will be held Monday at 4 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Marietta. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the public service will follow a visitation starting at 1:30 p.m. at the church at 56 Whitlock Ave., a little more than three miles from the small, 2-year-old Brazilian-immigrant church Jose Carmo Jr. served as pastor, Igreja Internacional da Restauracao (International Church of the Restoration). Carmo; his wife, Adriana; their first daughter, Leticia, 17; his brother Edson; and Edson’s girlfriend, Roselia DeSilva, died early Jan. 29 in a pileup on fog-shrouded Interstate 75 south of Gainesville, FL. The Carmos’ younger daughter, Lidiane, survived the crash and is recovering at …
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Crash survivor Lidiane Carmo will not be deported, an ICE spokeswoman says.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Hundreds of Sprayberry High students gathered at a vigil for the Carmo family the same day a federal official announced that the family’s sole survivor won’t be deported. Sprayberry freshman Lidiane Carmo, 15, remains in Shands at the University of Florida hospital while recovering from the injuries she suffered in the multiple-vehicle pileup that killed her parents and sister Sunday. The Kennesaw resident is in fair condition, WSB-TV reported this morning. Among the 11 people killed in the chain-reaction crashes on Interstate 75 south of Gainesville, FL, Sunday were Lidiane’s father, Ingreja Internacional de Restauracao pastor Jose Carmo; mother, Adriana; sister, Sprayberry junior Leticia; uncle Edson Carmo; and Edson’s girlfriend. The …
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The Cobb victims of a Florida interstate pileup will be remembered at Sprayberry High School Wednesday night.
A tangle of immigration and financial issues has grown around the Cobb victims of last Sunday's Florida interstate tragedy. But tonight, the three Carmo family members who perished, and the surviving daughter who remains in critical condition, will be remembered at a candlelight vigil. Cobb Schools spokesman Doug Goodwin said in a statement late Wednesday morning that the vigil will take place at 7 p.m. at in Northeast Cobb. That's where 15-year-old Lidiane Carmo, still hospitalized in Florida, is a freshman. Her father, Pastor Jose Carmo, her mother, Adriana, and Lidiane's sister, Leticia, 17, also a Sprayberry student, were killed early Sunday morning when the van in which they were riding was involved in a multiple-vehicle pileup on …
Monday, August 22, 2011
Tyler Davis, who graduated from Sprayberry High School in 2009, died Thursday on the Kennesaw State campus.
Tyler Davis of Northeast Cobb, who attends Kennesaw State University, died Thursday, John Bankhead, a spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The GBI is investigating the death because it occurred on state property, a spokeswoman for the Cobb County Medical Examiner's Office told the AJC. The 911 call that alerted authorities was placed from 1000 Chastain Rd shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday, Lt. Dan Dupree with the Cobb Fire Department told the AJC. Davis was transported to WellStar Kennestone Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the report states. The GBI conducted an autopsy Friday on Davis, but the results have not yet been released, Bankhead told the AJC. Davis died of an allergic …
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11:34 pm on Friday, February 3, 2012
From the Sprayberry ROTC we love you and you will be in our prayers! Stay strong Lidiane! Always remember that love will hold us together! Hoorah! - C/SA Wells and the rest of the Sprayberry ROTC more ›