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Newton-Conover City Schools to launch Red Blazer Award
Newton-Conover City Schools is launching what it hopes will be an annual award to recognize someone who made an outstanding contribution to the system, and is seeking nominations for the honor. The Red Blazer Award will be given to up to three people who gave time, money or effort to the system.
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Catawba County schools could start Aug. 7 for 2012-13 year
Catawba County Schools will have about two weeks less of summer this year, after the school board approved a new school calendar for the 2012-13 year on Monday. Under the new calendar, unanimously approved at the board meeting, students will go back to school on Aug. 7. In a previously approved calendar, they were scheduled to begin school on Aug. 27. Under the new version, students will have 67 days of vacation this summer, or just over two months, compared with the 79 days under the old calendar. Students will get out of school on May 23, 2013.
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Former band teacher pleads guilty to indecent liberties
A band teacher that was once the pride of Maiden ended his time in the county with a plea to indecent liberties with a student on Monday. Christopher Caldwell, 27, was indicted for sexual activity with a student and indecent liberties with a student for an incident that occurred on March 3, 2010. The band teacher at Maiden High at the time, Caldwell was 25 and the student was then 17.
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CVCC lockdown: What worked, what needs work
Catawba Valley Community College officials are examining if their responses are good enough in a crisis. CVCC’s administration spent much of Thursday analyzing the security measures that were in place Wednesday when a gunman was spotted on its east campus, to determine what worked and what needs to be changed. “I’ll be doing a faculty and staff debriefing, and I’ll try to learn more from them,” said Garrett Hinshaw, president of CVCC. “I’ll be looking at how faculty and staff reacted, to see how we go forward from here.”
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Lockdown, but no suspect found at Catawba Valley Community College
As Stephanie Snowden and her classmates sat in a darkened classroom on the fifth floor of a building at Catawba Valley Community College on Wednesday, she wondered what she would do if a gunman burst into the room. “Would we have to get under our desks if he or she comes up here? I don’t know if we can break the windows, being five floors up,” she said. A gunman was seen earlier in the day on the east campus of CVCC, about a quarter of a mile away from the main campus, prompting both campuses to be locked down.
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School systems' top earners change little from 2010 to 2011
Little has changed in the salaries of the employees of Catawba County’s three school systems since the Hickory Daily Record requested the information a year ago. This is due primarily to a freeze placed on pay raises by the state, which has been in place since 2009.
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Catawba County Schools begins search for new superintendent
The search for a new superintendent for Catawba County Schools has begun. In early December, current Superintendent Glenn Barger announced he was stepping down from the position on July 1. The school system entered into a $10,500 contract with the North Carolina School Boards Association to help them find a successful candidate. The association will help the school system advertise for the position, line up interviews, check references and help with surveys.
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No charges in Foard High noose incident
The material a student used to create a noose at Fred T. Foard High School on Monday was the string from a hoodie sweatshirt, according to the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office. “A student pulled it out in a classroom and made it into a noose,” said Coy Reid, Catawba County sheriff. “The teacher didn’t see it.”
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New Newton-Conover Middle is second green school for county
Although the new Newton-Conover Middle School is still about five months from completion, several of its environmentally green elements are already obvious as its construction progresses. The new school will be the second environmentally green school in the county — Snow Creek Elementary was the first. Newton-Conover City Schools is aiming for platinum level LEED certification with the new middle school. The US Green Building Council has a rating system to determine green buildings. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building rating system has several levels, with platinum the highest for the most environmentally green elements in the design. If Newton-Conover Middle remains on track for platinum status, it will be the first school in the state to do so, said system Superintendent Barry Redmond.
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Departing ASU Center director: 'It's been amazing'
The director for the Appalachian State University Center at Hickory is stepping down after eight years with the facility. Jane Everson has been the first and only director at the center, who was there when the building opened in 2003 and was initially called the Hickory Metro Higher Education Center. Since then, she’s seen the program adapt from being a partnership between several universities to transforming to the ASU Center at Hickory in July 2009, focusing on programming primarily from ASU.
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Catawba County school districts to each get a new elementary school
The three school systems in Catawba County will each receive $11 million from the county for a new elementary school in this funding cycle. The cycle runs from 2011-15. Catawba County Schools plans to build its new school in the Banoak area, close to Propst Crossroads in the Foard area, said Superintendent Glenn Barger.
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2 Newton-Conover High students suspended over hazing incident
Two Newton-Conover High School students are suspended following a hazing incident on the wrestling team less than 24 hours before the team was scheduled to leave for a tournament in Raleigh. Several students on the school’s wrestling team were in the practice room after school on Thursday when someone turned the lights off, said Barry Redmond, superintendent for Newton-Conover City Schools. A sophomore on the team grabbed a freshman and put him in a wrestling hold.
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CVCC enters new education alliance
Catawba Valley Community College is not content with offering GED and post-secondary educations. At a Champions of Education breakfast Wednesday, CVCC President Garrett Hinshaw announced that he was “scared” about the education in the region today, and formally announced a partnership with another entity. Champions of Education is now a part of Catawba Valley Community College’s student and community engagement department. Education Matters paved the way for the organization, as it joined the college full-time in November 2010.
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Budget constraints force end of CVCC child care program
Catawba Valley Community College announced Friday that it is closing its child development center due to budget problems and the economy. The 20-year Lab School child development center at the college will close in two phases, according to a release.
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St. Stephens' JROTC cadets exhibit precision, polish
St. Stephens High School’s JROTC military inspection had several firsts this year. It was the first time the program was led by Commander Kevin Nash, who is a first-year teacher. It is the first time there was a full exhibition drill team demonstrating their skills. And it was the first time history played so prominently, with the inspection held on the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. The school’s JROTC program showed off what it had learned this semester, dressed in their pressed uniforms and shined shoes. The highlight of the program was the exhibition drill team, who kicked, twirled and flipped their rifles in the air, all with a simple double tap signal from Chief Cadet Nicholas Robinson.
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Future Forward Workforce Alliance targets adult learners
Under a new arrangement, Champions will assist Education Matters with business and industry outreach.
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Barger to resign as Catawba County Schools' superintendent
Catawba County Schools must begin its search for a new superintendent, less than a year after it hired its current one. Superintendent Glenn Barger announced to the board of education Monday night that he intends to step down from the position on July 1. “I told them when I was hired that I was not a permanent solution,” he said.
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New Hickory school board members sworn in
Anthony Spearman was selected as the person to fill the open position in the Hickory Public Schools’ Ward 3 board of education seat by the other board members. Spearman is the pastor of Clinton Tabernacle AME Zion Church in Hickory. He took the oath of office at the board meeting Monday night, along with Margaret Pope, Amy Monroe and Charlotte Williams. The three women were elected during the November election for Wards 4, 6 and the at-large seat, respectively. Pope was previously appointed to fill Vanessa Linebarger’s seat when she stepped down from the board earlier this year. This will be Williams’ second term on the board.
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Students' passion becomes life-saving charity
The idea for clean drinking water in remote villages first sprouted from attending a conference. Teens Liz Bell, Ashley Stinson and Kayla Sutton had no idea it would grow to raising tens of thousands of dollars and six wells. The trio founded Cause 6000, a non-profit organization that has raised more than $70,000 to date, and built wells in remote areas of Ghana that need drinking water for the villages to survive.
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CVCC renames complex after major donor
Catawba Valley Community College is renaming its multipurpose athletic and event venue The Tarlton Complex in his honor James V. Tarlton Jr., who has given the largest single private gift in the college’s 53-year history.
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CVCC has $6,000 in electronics stolen
During the Thanksgiving holidays, someone stole nearly $6,000 worth of equipment from a room at Catawba Valley Community College.
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Bomb threat forces Fred T. Foard to be locked down
Authorities at Fred T. Foard High School were alerted to a bomb threat at the school around the time school began Monday, forcing the school to go into lockdown. The message was written on the wall of a boy’s bathroom, said Catawba County Sheriff Coy Reid.
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N.C. DPI recommendation applauded
Proponents of North Carolina School for the Deaf in Morganton were happy to hear the school may not close soon but are still wary of what the future holds.
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N.C. DPI gives recommendation on deaf school consolidation
The North Carolina School for the Deaf in Morganton is perhaps off the chopping block for now, but empty and under-utilized rooms may see changes in the coming year.
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Witnesses say umbrella looked like samurai sword
GREENVILLE, N.C. - ECU was under a campus-wide lockdown for several hours Wednesday.
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