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COA News: Sumitomo Machinery gives $15K to Markham scholarship fund
Students enrolled in College of The Albemarle’s computer integrated machining program are now eligible for a new scholarship named in honor of a COA grad and longtime employee of the Sumitomo Machinery Corporation of America. COA and Sumitomo recently announced that applications are available for the Cliff Markham Memorial Machinist Scholarship for the 2024-25 academic year. Sumitomo established the Cliff Markham Memorial Machinist Scholarship Endowment in 2021 in honor of Markham, a graduate of COA’s machining program who worked for Sumitomo for 27 years and...
Camden schools excited as start of construction on new school nears
CAMDEN — While commissioners are expressing concerns about the possibility of another increase to the overall cost of Camden’s new high school, county school officials are looking forward to the school’s construction getting started. Interim Superintendent Dr. Michael Bracy said the entire school district is excited about getting a new school that better fits the needs of teachers and students. He noted that one important deadline for the start of construction has already happened; another is less than four weeks away. ...
School board chair: Sasscer leaving E-Chowan to take principal's job at Pender County's Topsail High School
EDENTON — The superintendent of Edenton-Chowan Schools is leaving the school district to take a job as a high school principal in the Pender County Schools, the school board chairman says. According to Gene Jordan, Dr. Michael Sasscer has taken a job as principal at Topsail High School. The school is located in the unincorporated community of Hampstead, according to online sources. Sasscer, who had been superintendent in Edenton-Chowan for...
Camden bracing for another cost hike for new high school
CAMDEN — Progress continues toward starting construction of Camden’s new $80 million high school, but county leaders are already bracing for an increase in the school’s price tag. “The high school project is moving forward,” Camden Manager Erin Burke told commissioners at a work session last week to discuss the county’s 2024-25 fiscal budget. School construction bids are set to be received and opened on May 14, according to Burke. ...
High School Roundup: Currituck soccer defeats Camden 4-0
The Currituck County High School Knights defeated the Camden County High School Bruins in girls soccer on Wednesday evening by a score of 4-0. Currituck scored its first goal with 19 minutes remaining when Lisa Phillips found the back of the net on a penalty kick from a handball inside of the box. The score remained 1-0 until halftime. Things opened up for the Knights in the second half, with...
Perquimans schools to get $300K in grants
The Perquimans County Schools has received two grants totaling nearly $300,000 that officials say will improve schools’ ability to detect weapons on campus and construct a new greenhouse facility at the high school. School officials discussed the $186,500 grant from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction’s Center for Safer Schools and a $98,797 Career and Technical Education agriculture grant during a recent joint work session of the Perquimans Board of Commissioners and Board of Education. ...
Perquimans Pirates baseball, softball teams both win
The Perquimans High School baseball team defeated the Tarboro Vikings on Wednesday, April 10, for the second time in as many nights, 14-4. Will Rucker had three hits for the Pirates. He was followed by Sean Saunders and Collin Roberts, who had two hits each. The Pirates also knocked in eight runs in the game. Saunders and Jacob Askew each had two RBIs, while Maddux Thach, Ben Brown, Rucker and Evan Conway each had one RBI. ...
District unveils new school zones for Pasquotank Elementary students
Elizabeth-Pasquotank Schools has released new school zones for students who attend Pasquotank Elementary, which will close this summer and reopen in 2025 as the district’s new early learning center. Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Schools Superintendent Keith Parker discussed the new school zones at a public hearing in the multipurpose room at Pasquotank Elementary, Monday evening. The new zones only apply to students currently enrolled or who will enroll at Pasquotank Elementary next year and are effective with the start of the 2024-25 school year in August. ...
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