Raleigh, NC – The North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission is accepting applications for the 2022 grant cycle. Successful projects will meet the key objectives for 2022: create positive impacts for rural communities, stimulate economic development and support the agricultural…
Month: January 2022
Siler City Parks & Rec to offer Homeschool Recess
Siler City, NC – Are you in need of a place for your kids to burn off some energy and reset their brains? Siler City Parks and Recreation is excited to announce the creation of the Homeschool Recess Program. The…
Is Chatham School Board’s mandatory masking based on ABC’s flawed study?
By Mia Munn Pittsboro, NC – I again strongly urge you to remove the mask mandate in Chatham completely. We are doing untold harm to Special Ed students, K-3 students learning to read emotions and facial expressions, and ESL students,…
Chatham County among counties to be part of Army’s Special Forces exercise
Fort Bragg, NC – This month, Special Forces candidates will participate in the Robin Sage training exercise, held within multiple North Carolina counties as the final test of their Special Forces Qualification Course training. Between January 22 through February 4,…
CNN discovers fake hospitalization numbers, now do deaths
By Kevin Roche CNN discovers that CDC and everyone else has basically been lying about the number of hospitalizations actually caused by CV-19. (CNN Tweet) Where to start. First, the CDC and public health experts have lost any credibility. They…
2022 Chatham Landscape and Green Industry webinar series
Pittsboro, NC – In lieu of the annual, in-person conference, N.C. Cooperative Extension – Chatham County Centers is hosting a series of free, online webinars by NC State Extension staff and local industry experts. The webinars provide continuing education and…
I want to rant, but will try to be rational
By Kevin Roche Updated with one important point–the same person could easily repeatedly be a “case” under our current testing approach. I should retitle my research summary series “coldmonomania” lives forever. I try not to get wound up. A couple…
Chatham County Board of Health seeks engineer representative
Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Board of Health will have a vacancy in March 2022 that must be filled by a professional engineer who lives in the county. Applicants must have a current North Carolina engineering license, but they…
Chatham County Schools must change course to attract and keep employees
By Kate Dula Pittsboro, NC – Neither the initiatives of Chatham County Schools to stem the tide of faculty and staff leaving, nor their efforts to fill the positions left behind have shown success. While administrators continue to propose more…
It’s time for a Parent’s Bill of Rights
Top 10 rights every parent deserves By Kelly Mann Raleigh, NC – As displayed across the country parents are feeling unheard, that their choices within schools are infringed upon and most importantly that students’ basic educational needs are not met. Do…