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'Relationships are everything': Speaker and educator Michael Bonner surprised by former students
Educator and author Michael Bonner, who gained national attention when he and his students were featured on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” has become a popular public speaker over the last several years. But the former Pitt County Schools teacher of the year was at a loss for words Wednesday when he stood to address the audience at East Carolina University’s Rural Education Summer Learning Exchange. What left the eastern North...
Tom Campbell: Lawmakers continue to fail public schools
Tears are being shed over the legislature’s failure to appropriate additional funding for private school vouchers. One Charlotte mom complained, “We voted them in with the promise they’d give a free education to all, and it hasn’t happened.” Dear Charlotte mom: You are wrong. Every child in North Carolina has the opportunity of a free education in traditional public schools. Your child is not being punished. In fact, those who are being punished are the children in traditional schools — punished because our General Assembly...
Star Parker: Shooting offers path to unite us
It is not trivial to observe that the good news regarding the horrible assassination attempt on Donald Trump is that just about everyone agrees what happened is very bad and not an encouraging sign about the state of our nation. After that point of agreement, many different and diverging opinions emerge about who or what is to blame. This act of violence against Donald Trump is, unfortunately, not a one-off...
Working the forests through the trees: Early career as a ranger has been memorable
“Flame lengths over 50 feet were pushing our line. It looked like a wall of fire and sounded like a freight train coming through the middle of the woods.” That description, frightening to picture for most, was shared by County Ranger Michael Ward with the N.C. Forest Service in Washington County. Ward was recalling one of his most memorable incidents thus far in his career. Ward is serving in his...
STILL UNBEATEN: TSC garners victory over Ironwood in GASSL meet
Tarboro Swim Club remained unbeaten on the regular season with a 949-287 victory over Ironwood Country Club in a Greenville Area Summer Swim League meet on Tuesday in Tarboro. Top-three results for TSC are as follows: 8U GIRLS 100 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: Elodie Riley first (2:27.55)8U BOYS 100 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: Harker Pigg first (1:54.32)9-10 GIRLS 100 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: Maggie Chafin first (1:49.93); Paisley Savage second (2:01.37)9-10 BOYS 100 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: Brookes...
NCC holds enrollment event to bring in new students for fall
To make the college enrollment process as smooth as possible, Nash Community College officials held a day-long Nighthawk Enrollment Day on campus recently. Organizers said the event offered new students a one-stop shopping experience where they could enroll in courses, speak with advisors and look into financial aid options. The college’s director of marketing and strategic engagement, Kenyon “K.J.” Askew, said the event was a success, but for new students interested in enrolling for the fall semester, there is still time to enroll for classes. ...
Nashville council tables vote on church purchase again
The Nashville Town Council on Tuesday tabled a vote on whether to purchase the vacant Fellowship Church building for a new town hall. The council decided to take up the matter again at its Aug. 6 meeting, so that council members could receive information about the consistency of soils on the property, if expansion of the septic system was possible and how much it would cost if it was. This is the second time the council voted to table a vote on the issue. The...
Sorority provides items, supplies to help future college freshmen
Cye Jones is grateful for a sorority providing him with housekeeping items and educational supplies so that he won’t have to worry about paying for them on his first day as a college student. “I’m just blessed,” Jones, 18, said after the local chapter of Tau Gamma Delta Sorority’s Trunks for Success, a yearly event to help people who are entering a college or a university. Jones is a graduate of Southern Nash High School and plans to attend Barton College. ...
Local Republicans, Democrats at odds over impact of assassination attempt on Trump
A Nash County elected official who serves on both the county and state Democratic executive committees said that she does not believe the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is going to have an impact on the election contest for the commander in chief’s position. “Nothing is going to change,” Nash County Commissioner Gwen Wilkins said in a phone interview Monday, adding that she and fellow Democrats are supporting President Joe Biden, a Democrat, for re-election. ...
Man, 50, faces rape, sexual misconduct-related charges
A man is in jail without bond in the Nash County Detention Center on rape charges and on another criminal sexual misconduct-related charge, Rocky Mount police said in a news release Wednesday. Kyle Sanders, 50, was arrested after officers on Tuesday responded to a residence in the 800 block of South Tillery Street after receiving information about the location of a missing juvenile and a wanted person, police said. Officers...
Letter: Boys don't cry; dolls are for girls
As kids in elementary school, my classmates and I were taught some damaging conventions. Among them: “Boys don’t cry. Pink is for girls and blue is for boys. Girls play with dolls, and boys play football.” And that hideous list went on and on. During my physical education classes in second and third grade (1967–1969), there was a boy who cried, presumably because he didn’t have the strength or coordination to compete in dodgeball and other sports. He displayed immense frustration, which resulted in tears....
Cynthia Tucker: Rise of misinformation undermines trust in facts
My sister recently told me that her former supervisor at a small-town library doesn't believe the moon landings were real. I was stunned to hear that, but I shouldn't have been. My sister's former boss is a college-educated professional — and younger than the old folks I used to hear disputing the facts of the moon landings — but she is hardly an anomaly. We live in an age of misinformation, disinformation, easily accepted conspiracy theories and broad distrust of reliable sources of information. As...
Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift: Coney Barrett shows promise of independence
The power of judicial independence is reappearing. The most junior member of the Supreme Court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is emerging as the most independent-minded of the three conservative Trump appointees. She is no Sandra Day O’Connor, at least not yet, but she is following the late O’Connor’s playbook in her willingness to occasionally work with the other side, namely the three liberal justices on the Court, and to embrace gender solidarity. Justice Barrett is the only woman among the Court’s six conservative jurists while...
Kathryn Jean Lopez: GOP aborts its claim as pro-life party
Pro-life people believe abortion to be the human rights issue of our lifetime, one with eternal stakes. With the Republican Party's changes to its platform regarding abortion, it's hard to believe the GOP is in the cause for the long haul — never mind the eternal. The platform no longer calls for an end to abortion, opting instead for the leave-it-to-the-states position. This platform and likely presidential nominee Donald Trump have abandoned any even nominal claim to the moral high ground. Lauren Onak, vice-presidential candidate...
Cheryl Orr: When the weather gets warm, it's the perfect time for shrimp
Not only is it a fabulous season for vegetables and fruits, but shrimp is enjoying its moment in the sun as well! North Carolina’s shrimp season generally begins late spring and winds down in November. The two most common shrimp varieties found in our area are brown shrimp and white shrimp. Brown shrimp are bottom dwellers of the sound and have a stronger flavor. ...
It appears that it is all "in the game"
“It’s in the game” — EA Sports If you read that sentence and heard it in Andrew Anthony’s infamous gravelly voice, there’s a solid chance you were as excited about last week as I was. After more than a decade without EA Sports’ trademark collegiate gridiron game, College Football 25 has arrived. The popularity of Madden is unmatched, but EA’s College Football had a following that was too big to...
Japanese health care company to build first North American manufacturing center in Eastern NC
GREENVILLE — Nipro Medical Corporation, a leader in the global health care and medical device industry, has selected Pitt County for its first North American manufacturing center of excellence, creating 232 jobs, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday. The company will invest more than $397.8 million to build a campus and U.S. headquarters in Greenville. “I’m excited to welcome another advanced manufacturing company to eastern North Carolina,” Cooper said in his announcement. “Not only will Nipro join a Greenville community of health care leaders, it will...
Chelsea Jernigan: People-pleasing is lying
I’ve changed a lot over the last few years, but growing up and through the majority of my teens, 20s and very early 30s, I was a full-fledged Type A, people-pleasing perfectionist. I’m sure if I tried really hard, I could point to some reasons for this, but truthfully, I think there’s so much in us that we are just born with. Many of the qualities I’m watching develop in my own children were present at birth. My husband and I didn’t encourage them, they...
River Bandits ease past Twins in non-divisional game
Tarboro put together a pair of four-run innings late, Cam Greenway continues to mash the ball, and relief pitcher James Strohbush worked four solid innings on the mound as the River Bandits eased past the Fuquay-Varina Twins 13-4 in a nondivisional game of the Old North State League on Tuesday night at Tarboro Municipal Stadium. The win enabled Tarboro, which was coming off a 9-7 loss at the Edenton Steamers on Monday, to improve to 24-10 overall. The River Bandits were 10-8 in the Northeastern...
Tarboro police detective suspended for post about Trump assassination attempt
A Tarboro police detective sergeant is currently suspended without pay after suggesting via his social media link that former President Donald Trump should have ended up dead in a recent assassination attempt while campaigning in Pennsylvania. Brandon Richardson, who has been on the town’s police force for nearly 24 years, was taken off the payroll Monday and until further notice as further disciplinary action is still being considered, Town Manager Troy Lewis said in email correspondence Tuesday. ...
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