WOODSTOCK, Ga. -- FoxTale Book Shoppe is excited to offer its first-ever AP Test Prep class on Saturday, April 13th from 2:00pm to 3:30pm. The class is aimed at high school students about to take the APWH exam this May and teachers looking to enrich their curriculum. The focus is to help students prepare with a purpose to maximize their score. The class will be taught by author and former AP World History teacher, Suzanne Litrel.

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. -- Students from all six Cherokee County high schools have been selected for the prestigious Governor's Honors Program.

The annual four-week program gives some of Georgia's best and brightest teens the opportunity to study areas in which they excel.

Nearly 3,000 students were nominated for GHP. That number was whittled down to 690 finalists who will attend the program at Valdosta State University this summer.

"Governor's Honors Program is such a competitive program that even being nominated is an accomplishment," program director Dale Lyles said in a statement. "I congratulate the students of Cherokee County School District and look forward to meeting them and their parents in June."

Cherokee County's GHP finalists include:

Cherokee HS
* Adaiah Ludy, Spanish

Creekview HS
* Ben O'Donnell, architectural design
* Brittany Purves, music (trumpet)
* John Wachtel, theatre performance

WOODSTOCK, Ga. -- Georgia Sen. Brandon Beach (R-Alpharetta) recently visited Woodstock's Bascomb Elementary School to read to students.

Beach entertained second graders and special needs students, and answered all their questions about life under the Gold Dome. He also learned about the students' preparations for an upcoming school play about Georgia.

In addition to being a senator, Beach is president and CEO of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, which will hold its annual gala in Buckhead this weekend.