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Bears roll down Cogburn at Cambridge Homecoming By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com
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2,977 American flags stand on the front lawn of Milton High School to commemorate the lives of each person who died during the 9/11 attacks in 2001
Milton High remembers 9/11 Community gathers to continue tradition By JAKE DRUKMAN newsroom@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — Scores of Milton students, first responders and community members gathered outside Milton High School Sept. 11 morning to memorialize the thousands of American lives lost during the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. The school’s front lawn was lined with 2,977 American flags, each representing a victim who died in the attacks. The flags each had a banner attached
Mark Caruso, a 9/11 survivor, delivers the keynote address at Milton High School’s 9/11 memorial event on Sept. 11, 2024. displaying a victim’s name. Speakers took to a podium beneath the school’s flag, which flew at half-staff, to address the crowd and reflect on the legacy
of those who were in the World Trade Center and of the first responders who rushed into the towers to rescue survivors. The memorial’s keynote speaker was Mark Caruso, who was in Lower Manhattan the day of the attack working as a foreign exchange broker. He has worked as a docent at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City in the years since the attack and he traveled from Connecticut to deliver his address in Milton. Caruso delivered an emotional account of his experience of the harrowing
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MILTON, Ga. — High school athletes threw buckets-loads of candy off more than 35 floats while kids scrambled to gather what they could at the inaugural Cambridge Homecoming JamBEARee Parade Sept. 9. Smiles were everywhere. As a part of the school’s new tradition, Principal Ashley Agans awarded the Drama Club with a trophy for best float. Agans said next year’s winner will also have their club or team engraved on the trophy. “This is your community, your Cambridge,” she said. “Thanks for being here … Go Bears!” Before the parade began, the McKnight family set up chairs along the Cogburn Road sidewalk so they could watch their son, Matthew, a sophomore and football player, in the parade with his teammates.
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A river of bears on floats heads down Cambridge High School Road Sept. 9 for the inaugural Homecoming JamBEARee Parade.
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