“Fresh Picks” features the top stories posted by our contributors at neighborsgo.com for and about the Allen area after the deadline for this Saturday’s print edition.

If you find something you like, e-mail the URL, http://www.neighborsgo.com/blog/allen_noteworthy, to a friend.

STUDENT EDITION

Bolin’s Pride Council shows its spirit

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/15360

Connemara Conservancy announces summer schedule

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/15383

Allen seniors trek go “home, home on the South Dakota range”

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/15308

Lovejoy Daisy Girl Scouts learn how to be PALs

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/15331

Allen ISD superintendent named one of “21 For The 21^st Century”

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/15257

Allen ISD names its 2008 “Teachers of the Year”

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/15252

More than 80 Allen ISD employees honored for excellence

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/15256

Dads, daughters hit the great outdoors

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/15255

Allen ISD releases 2008-2009 school calendar

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/15253

Marion kindergarteners take a swim through Dallas Aquarium

http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/15029

THINGS TO DO

May 17: Trinity Tack & Rummage Sale, Wylie

May 18: FUMC Allen’s Beans ‘n’ Jeans

May 18: Gunslingers & Stagecoach Robbery, McKinney

May 19: EDS Jazz Band Concert, JoeFarmerRecreationCenter

May 24: Family Bike Day

Next-door Neighbors

McKinney “Noteworthy”: Best of the Week

neighborsgo.com/blog/mckinney_noteworthy

Plano/Murphy “Noteworthy”: Best of the week

neighborsgo.com/blog/planonoteworthy