Students return to school today in Cochran.  To find out what the nutrition staff is preparing at each campus for the first day (as well as the rest of the month), click here.

If you have a child who attends Bleckley County Learning Center (Pre K), Bleckley Primary, Elementary, or the Success Academy, they'll receive free breakfasts and lunches this year, regardless of family economic status.  That's because of a provision in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act passed in 2010.

The act contains a Community Eligbiility Provision which allows for free breakfasts, lunches, and snacks (for children in an eligible afterschool program)  to be provided to all schools if 40 percent of students in the schools receive either SNAP (Supplimental Nutritonal Assistance Program) benefits or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.  Students at the eligble schools can receive the free meals (if they're consumed on campus) without any additional paperwork.

Starting this fall, students who take courses online at Middle Georgia State University will pay $19 less per credit hour.  It's part of a plan to eliminate the discrepency in tuition between online and traditional classes.  To read more, click here.