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Bailey Hooten, seen here in her fifth-grade basketball picture, recently experienced a five-week hospital stay and at least 10 surgeries, due to a flesh-eating infection contracted from a cut on her hand during a basketball game. (Photo provided)
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Bailey Hooten, seen here in the hospital, recently experienced a five-week hospital stay and at least 10 surgeries, due to a flesh-eating infection contracted from a cut on her hand during a basketball game. (Photo provided)
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The Canton community is rallying around a local family after a seemingly simple basketball injury resulted in a 12-year-old girl suffering a flesh-eating infection, an extended hospitalization and at least 10 surgeries.
CANTON - The Cherokee County Board of Education has approved the $7.7 million purchase of 88-acres that could see Cherokee High School move from the west side of Canton to the east side later this decade.
When the current building at 930 Marietta Highway opened in the 1950s, Cherokee High was the only high school in Cherokee County, which had a population of less than 25,000 at the time. Since then, five other high schools, along with new middle and elementary schools have been built as the county population has grown by more than 10 times to nearly 270,000 today.
The land is north of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and adjacent to the current Teasley Middle School campus in Cantonâs Riverstone area. The $87,500 per acre cost is to be paid for with current Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax money, according to school system Chief Communications Officer, Barbara Jacoby. The purchase was approved at the school board meeting on Thursday night.