Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Board of Education met Monday, September 13, and conducted thefollowing business. The meeting agenda can be found here. INFORMATIONAL ITEMS ● Accountability results: Assistant Superintendent Dr. Amanda Moran briefed board members on the accountability…
Month: September 2021
Carla Murray named Executive Director for Elementary & Middle Grades Instruction
Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Board of Education on Sept. 13, 2021, approved Carla Murray as the Executive Director for Elementary and Middle Grades Instruction. In her new role, Murray will lead the district’s curriculum and instruction efforts in…
Pollard Middle School intern named statewide Student Teacher of the Year
Pittsboro, NC – James Michael Sapp, a UNC-Chapel Hill 2021 Master of Arts in Teaching graduate who spent the past year interning at Margaret B. Pollard Middle School, has been named the North Carolina Association for Colleges of Teacher Educators’…
Ebbs and flows: Experts say we need to adjust, learn to live with the virus
By John Trump Raleigh, NC – COVID-19 cases in North Carolina may actually be decreasing, even as media hysteria and local mask mandates rage on. Source: NCDHHS 9.27.21 Cases, based on the seven-day rolling average, says Jon Sanders, appear to…
Is college football the death knell for COVID hysteria?
By Ray Nothstine Raleigh, NC – Like everything else in society, college football can speak to our hyper-politicized culture. And no, I’m not talking about the vulgar chants directed at Joe Biden spreading across college stadiums. I’m talking about the…
Chatham 250 mobile exhibit shares inspirational story of Los Jets soccer team
Pittsboro, NC – In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Chatham 250 will highlight the incredible story of Jordan-Matthews High School’s Los Jets soccer team by presenting a special exhibit to Chatham County Schools students. The mobile version of the N.C.…
ACC football game times & networks for October 2
Greensboro, NC – The Atlantic Coast Conference announced the following football game times and networks for the week of October 2. Locally Duke will play Carolina at Kenan Stadium at noon. Louisville will come to Winston-Salem to face Wake Forest…
Chatham Community Library presents virtual film screening: The R-Word
Pittsboro, NC – In recognition of Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Chatham Community Library will host a virtual film screening of The R-Word (2020), beginning Thursday, October 14, and continuing through Thursday, October 21. This program is free and open to the public. The R-Word takes…
Information for September 20th Chatham County Board of Commissioners meeting
Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Board of Commissioners (BOC) will meet on Monday, September 20, 2021, at the Chatham County Historic Courthouse, 9 Hillsboro Street, Second Floor Courtroom, Pittsboro. The Work Session will begin at 2:00 p.m. The Regular…
Forgotten men and women: ‘the unvaccinated’ also includes the naturally immune
By Jon Sanders Raleigh, NC – “The forgotten man” was how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt characterized ordinary people who needed his New Deal policies to build back up the American economy around them. In her history of the Great Depression…