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Suspect attempts store robbery
Man fled after choking clerk
SMITH FRANK JR
Frank Smith Jr.
A man who police said choked a clerk while trying to rob a South Main convenience store Friday is now behind bars, said Statesboro Public Safety Director Wendell Turner.Around 4:55 a.m., a man approached a clerk in GATE Station while she was working. The man, later identified as Frank Smith Jr., 39, Lydia Lane, came up behind the woman and “put her in a choke hold and demanded money from her,” he said.But when a second employee came out of the cooler, Smith fled.Statesboro Police responded to the scene, and Detective Keith Holloway began an investigation, Turner said. Smith was arrested around 2:30 p.m. near his home.
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Georgia Southern professor Dr. Larisa Elisha will offer free violin recital on Saturday
The Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music is presenting event 7:30 p.m. at Carol A. Carter Recital Hall
Larisa Elisha
The Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music will present a free Faculty Violin Recital, featuring Dr. Larisa Elisha, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall. - photo by Georgia Southern University photo

The Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music will present a free Faculty Violin Recital, featuring internationally-acclaimed violinist Dr. Larisa Elisha and Dr. Cameron Fuhrman on piano, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall on the Georgia Southern University campus. 

The program of violin-piano masterpieces includes Johannes Brahms’s Scherzo in C minor (from "F-A-E Sonata"), Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23, by Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108, by Johannes Brahms and Manuel Ponce’s Estrellita (“the little star”). 

Russian-American violinist, Dr. Elisha, is an internationally acclaimed soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. She has performed and taught extensively throughout Russia, Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, Norway, Taiwan, Lithuania, Israel and the United States.

Currently, Dr. Elisha is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Upper String Studies at the Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University, where she teaches violin, viola, chamber music, violin/viola Literature and method and pedagogy. 

Dr. Cameron Fuhrman is a pianist, teacher and musical academic. Born in rural Central Oregon, she began taking piano lessons at 5 and teaching them at 11. 

She has given solo, collaborative, and concerto performances across the United States and has received numerous awards for her teaching and research. 

She lives in Savannah with her husband, Jacob, who is Director of Music at the Independent Presbyterian Church, and their daughter, Clara. 


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