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Nashville to try online high school
Nashville’s newest high school goes online—literally—in the fall.The Tennessean reports that Metro Nashville Public Schools will open its first virtual high school in the 2010-11 school year, with courses offered entirely online and accessible to everyone from home-schooled students to students looking for elective classes they can’t find at the school they attend.
The virtual high school is still under construction. The district has yet to decide which classes will be offered, how many students will be enrolled and how widespread the first year’s effort will be.
Going online is part of the school district’s long-range goal of ensuring all students take at least one class online before they graduate.
The district set aside $556,000 to help launch the virtual high school.
Gatlinburg business to sell mountain whiskey
A Gatlinburg businessman says he’ll be selling genuine mountain whiskey at a new store next month.Joe Baker, owner of Ole Smoky Distillery, says he’ll be offering jars full of unaged corn whiskey in different variations including apple pie and peach. The store will sell moonshine cherries too.
He told a Knoxville TV station that it’s “100 proof... true mountain whiskey.’’
Baker said a new Tennessee law allowing the distillation of spirits helped him start his business, with the opening planned for July 2 on the resort town’s main parkway inside the Ole Smoky Moonshine Holler.
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