Congrats to Athletes, Science Olympians and Entrepreneurial Women

1. The good news on the weather, according to the National Weather Service: It will be sunny, dry and less windy today. The not-so-good news: It will still be chilly, with a high of about 69 and an overnight low of 49.

2. We're afraid the high school sports season in East Cobb officially came to an end Tuesday when lost to Whitewater. It was a great year for the local schools, full of team and individual state championships. For all the high school athletes at Pope, , and , we salute you. Now we'll have to content ourselves with watching the adult form of school competition, the Cobb County Board of Education, which is holding another closed-door executive session for personnel matters today at 6 p.m. at the Galleria 400 Building.

3. Congratulations to East Cobb's Shallowford Falls Elementary School for winning the Georgia Science Olympiad over the weekend at Kennesaw State University. The members of the team, which won the largest elementary school state Science Olympiad in the nation, are fifth-graders Kip Butcher, Shawn Doss, Andrew Huffman, Pranav Khorana, Lindy Madsen, Ted Niemi, Ishaan Rischie and Seo Young Yoo; fourth-graders Peter Jacobson, Grant Jenson, William Kim, AJ Miller, Keshav Shenoy, Jared Turk and Daniel Zhou; and third-graders Ava Autera, Katie Huffman and Henry Tegethoff.

4. Also, a belated congratulations to East Cobb high-tech business Axis Teknologies, led by CEO and President Jennifer Schoenhofer, which the Women Presidents' Organization honored at its annual conference last month in Vancouver, British Columbia, as one of the 50 fastest-growing North American companies owned or led by women. Schoenhofer's wireless infrastructure engineering company ranked 14th on the list.

5. May 18 plays a prominent role in the course of Georgia history for a couple of reasons, according to History.com. First, it was this day in 1860 that the Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president, leading to his election in November, Georgia's secession, the Civil War, Sherman's March to the Sea, etc., all the way to this date in 1896, when the Supreme Court issued its infamous ruling in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson. That decision supported legal segregation across the South for the next six decades.