MCDONOUGH — Dutchtown High economics teacher and assistant football coach Richard Postell was named the Henry County Public Schools 2023 Teacher of the Year Thursday at the McDonough Performing Arts Center.
“It’s a major honor,” Postell said. “ As an educator, we don’t get recognized a whole lot so to be among the best of the best and be chosen as Henry County Teacher of the Year it is a wonderful, huge honor.”
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