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New Leaders In Durham Public Schools For 2024-25 School Year
DURHAM, NC – Five new leaders are in Durham Public Schools (DPS) for the 2024-25 school year. The new leaders, named by the DPS Board of Education, are:. Dr. Vanessa Alford has been tapped to lead C.C. Spaulding Elementary. She currently serves as principal at Merrick-Moore Elementary. She has extensive experience as an educational leader, having served as a principal in Cumberland County Schools and Durham Public Schools and as an assistant principal in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Cumberland County Schools. She also served as a school transformation coach in DPS, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and the South Carolina State Department of Education. Her background includes school turnaround, school leadership, teacher development, curriculum and instruction, leadership coaching, and building student agency. She received her doctorate in Educational Leadership from Fayetteville State University.
Mystery Russian-made helicopter landing in NC community causes a stir; deployed troops were ‘not terrorists’
A gray MI-17 helicopter variant with several troops aboard landed in a North Carolina field near the intersection of N.C. 109 and Old Thayer Mill Road, about six miles northwest of Troy.
Michael Smith of EDC presents vision for economic growth at Chatham County School Board meeting
Pittsboro, NC – Michael Smith’s presentation before the Chatham County School Board was a comprehensive outline of the transformative changes on the horizon for Chatham County. As the head of the Chatham County Economic Development Corporation, Smith has a front-row seat to the county’s rapid evolution into a hub of economic activity. His presentation provided a look at the major developments shaping the future, from sprawling new industrial parks to high-tech manufacturing facilities.
Jon Rothstein has interesting UNC basketball projected starting lineup for 2024-2025
A little over a month ago, we put together our projected starting lineup for the 2024-2025 UNC basketball program. Of course, it's so important to note that this is the type of thing that depends on who you speak to, as national college basketball insider Jon Rothstein has a little bit of a different take on how it will shape out come opening night.
Apex event to serve students, families, seniors in need Saturday
APEX, N.C. (WNCN) — Where can people turn if they lack food, clothes or health care and don’t have the means to afford them? A food bank, a shelter, a free clinic, perhaps — but an event on Saturday is offering all those resources in one place.
Groundbreaking ceremony held for Durham affordable housing option, Commerce Street Apartments
Ground has officially been broken at a site for new affordable housing in the Bull City.Adrianne Todman, the acting secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, was in Durham today for the groundbreaking ceremony.She was joined by US representative Valerie Foushee and Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams to celebrate this phase of adding affordable housing to the City of Durham.The federal government provided $40 million to help with construction.They will be called Commerce Street Apartments.The new apartments will offer 172 mixed-income apartment homes in two four-story buildings.Some units will be reserved for seniors while others will be public housing replacement units and serve households with incomes below 60% of Area Median Income.
Isaiah Deloatch fast tracking academic career before Rutgers arrival
Class of 2025 Rutgers linebacker commit Isaiah Deloatch of Hillside High School (Durham, N.C.) is just a fall season away from his arrival at Rutgers. Like most of his fellow commits in the class of 2025, he will be enrolling early for the spring semester of 2025. January is his expected arrival date but Deloatch will already be well ahead of his fellow freshmen. In addition to his football resume, which included 16 offers, he has excelled in the classroom.
High building costs, interest rates take a bite out of housing affordability
Skyrocketing building costs and higher interest rates have made $900 rents a thing of the past, says Sarah Odio, the associate director of housing for the Development Finance Initiative (DFI) within the UNC School of Government. In the past, Odio said, $900 rents covered money developers borrowed from lenders and equity investors to build affordable […]
Delegate says North Carolina ‘back in play’ ahead of Democratic National Convention
"Our younger Democrats, who've never participated in the process, are coming forward. We have Republicans who have taken the courage to step forward and they're going to be with us too. We're seeing a momentum that we've never had before."
Appeals Court Judge Gore receives promotion
Judge W. Fred Gore of the North Carolina Court of Appeals was recently promoted from Major in the United States Army Reserve Judge Advocate Generals Corp (USAR JAG Corp) to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He is currently assigned to the 134th Legal Operations Detachment with the USAR JAG Corp at Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg.
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