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My colleague Doug Dezotell and I accompanied members of Bedford County Board of Education to the Tennessee School Boards Association regional meeting in Winchester tonight, where both Doug and I won awards for excellence in education reporting. Doug won in the Daily Newspaper, Feature, Series category for his work on our weekly education section. I won in the Daily Newspaper, News, Series category for a two-part series (Part 1 | Part 2 ) I did about the local school board’s site visit to the Chattanooga area to study standardized school attire.

There was a fascinating speaker at the TSBA meeting who talked about social networking and teenagers. I’ll write a story for Sunday’s paper about her presentation.

Doug has a photo on his camera of the two of us holding our awards, and I’ll put that on Flickr over the weekend. (I won’t be in the office tomorrow, so I’ll have to get to it Saturday.)