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Cabarrus County Superintendent Chris Lowder talks about rising COVID-19 numbers at an emergency school board meeting in November. Cabarrus County Superintendent Chris Lowder has resigned after more than five years in the job, the district announced Wednesday. His resignation came at a special meeting Tuesday. Lowder has led North Carolina’s eighth-largest school district since December 2015. In recent months he has been at odds with board members about how quickly to resume in-person classes ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is urging the public to use caution on lake ice as winter aeration systems operate on many lakes.

Safety is being urged around systems that are in operation

Turns out it was right. The latest Patty Jenkins-Gal Gadot collaboration garnered $16.7 million in the United States during the Friday-Sunday Christmas holiday weekend, or nearly 2 million tickets sold. Those are the highest three-day totals for any new movie in American theaters since pandemic lockdowns began last March — a noteworthy and even surprising result given the fact that the movie was concurrently available to consumers at home, though some experts caution against reading too mu...

For movie theaters, the coronavirus stimulus bill is a tale of two industries Steven Zeitchik Employee Grayson Allred in front of the Paramount Theatre in Abilene, Tex. The marquee notifies all would-be patrons that the theater has closed indefinitely due to rising coronavirus cases in the city. The historical venue is part of a class of movie theaters that will be eligible for a critical stimulus package — if it becomes law. (Tony Gutierrez/AP) When Congress passed the cor...

By Brandon Summers Grand Island’s occupation tax revenue was not hit as badly as expected despite seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The city’s Food and Beverage Occupation Oversight Tax Committee on Thursday reviewed the total tax revenue for the city’s fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. “We’re really fortunate, if we look at our revenues, that we haven’t been nailed that hard,” committee member Karl Kostbahn said. “I was surprised at how...

EDITORS NOTE: This story has been updated with quotes from Wednesdays meeting as well as a statement from Board of Education intern Finley Edwards. The Cabarrus County Board of Education voted 5-2 at an emergency called meeting on Wednesday to move into fully remote learning starting Monday, Dec. 14. There is an end date set on the motion as the board hopes to bring students back to campus after Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 19. Effectively, students who are learning in a blended format ri...

Dec 11, 2020 A boy tests the ice on the pond at Lions Park. Ice on most area lakes is still considered too thin to walk on. While the unusually warm weather this week was an opportunity for people to be outside, it delayed the start of winter activities such as ice fishing. The above-freezing days are slowing the speed that ice forms on local lakes and ponds, pushing back when people can take to the ice. The cooler nights helped keep the ice already on the lakes from melting, despite temperatur...

Once they did, probably another 10 or 15 minutes to get the tank oriented correctly above the legs. >> the crane operator nearly 130 feet in the air lowers the container closer and closer while his co-workers guide its placement with the attached cables. as one of the men begins his climb down to the ground, the crane suddenly starts to shift. within seconds, to the horror of those watching below, the crane carrying the container gives way, colliding with the legs of the water tower. with cables...

>> translator: i cannot remember anything about the accident. i thought i was sleeping, but when i woke up i was not in my bed. >> remarkably he and the truck driver suffer only minor injuries. grateful to be alive, he says, life is beautiful and considers february 25th, the day of the accident, his new birthday. in a small iowa town, an exciting day turns tragic when a water tower comes tumbling down. leaving three lives hanging in the balance. >> it happened so quickly. it was such a shockin...