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Tucker Community Foundation Offering 40 Different Scholarships

Posted: Feb 22, 2012 4:43 PM EST Updated: Feb 22, 2012 4:43 PM EST
By Jeff Schrock, Randolph, Tucker and Upshur County Reporter – email

PARSONS –

The Tucker Community Foundation is accepting applications from high school students for merit-based scholarships.

Students in seven counties in West Virginia: Barbour, Grant, Mineral, Preston, Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker County, and Garrett County, Md. can use the money regardless of their field of study.

The foundation will award more than $52,000 in 40 different scholarships.

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Maryland Holstein Scholarship Committee is making youth scholarships available

The Maryland Holstein Scholarship Committee is making youth scholarships available. Included will be a $2,000 scholarship to the Outstanding Maryland Holstein Scholar and as many as four $750 scholarships, all to be awarded at the 2012 Maryland http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifHolstein Convention in Garrett County. The scholarships are offered to Maryland Junior Holstein Association members who are currently enrolled or have been enrolled in a dairy project with Holstein cattle. They are available to both undergraduate and graduate students. Students may attend a two-year or four-year degree-granting institution in a college of agriculture or a four-year program in a nonagriculture area of study. Applications must be typed in the space allotted and an official academic transcript and recent wallet-size (head shot only) photo must accompany the application. Please provide only the information requested. All applications must be postmarked by Jan. 15. For more information or an application, contact Arthur and Peggy Johnson, committee co-chairs, at 301-972-8274 or by going to the University of Maryland Dairy Extension website.

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Funding Plans For Garrett County Scholarship Program To Continue

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The Board of Garrett County Commissioners continues to receive commentary that the Garrett County Scholarship Program will not be funded for future years.
“Statements related to a termination of this program are untrue and unsubstantiated,” a press release from the commissioners stated. “The board strongly believes that funding of this program that allows all Garrett County public school seniors to attend Garrett College at no cost will have many constructive and positive long-term consequences for not only the students who participate in the program but all of Garrett County.”

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