A Newton High School graduate is one of six local high school graduates to receive a Better Business Bureau of Southeast Texas and BBB Consumer Education Foundation Scholarship. Candace Carver-Brooks serves as Marketing & Events Director for the consumer advocate group and she announced Wednesday that Hannah Peacock, of Newton, will receive a $2,500.00 scholarship. Hannah was the 2021 Newton High School Valedictorian and sheâs now headed for Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches where sheâll pursue a Bachelorâs Degree in Nursing. She also plans to move on to Baylor University to complete her BSN. Hannah is already in the medical field; sheâs been a nurseâs aide since the spring of 2020 and she assisted in a local nursing home during the height of the Coronavirus pandemic.