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The bulk of the meeting of the Lincoln County Board of Education on Tuesday, May 11, was spent recognizing students and staff members for their achievements.  Pierson Rickard, an eighth grade East Lincoln Middle School student, who was named seventh chair trombone in the North Carolina All State Band. He was the only Lincoln County student to make the All-State Band. The East Lincoln High School Cheval Winter Guard competed in the 2021 Virtual Winter Guard International World Championships a...

Former students recall integration of Acadiana schools Sign In LEIGH GUIDRY, Lafayette Daily Advertiser May 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11Albert "Al" Hayes Jr., right, a member of the St. Landry Parish School Board, speaks with Ken Richard outside a coffee shop in Eunice, La., Monday, May 3, 2021. As a 1969 graduate of Charles Drew High School, he was in the last graduating class of the all-Black high school before schools in the area were integrated. (Scott Clause/The Dail...

A CALL for kindness been made by Tranent residents after a man from the town with additional support needs was targeted by cruel bullies. And the headteacher of Ross High School has apologised on behalf of the school to the bullied man and his family. Jamie Lusk, well-known and liked in Tranent, has recently faced harassment from some of the town’s youngsters. Close family friend Katie Mcintyre said that 32-year-old Jamie, who lives in the town with dad George and mum Jane, had a “h...

‘Don’t hate; just keep your head held high’ Antoinette Chaffers’ Pete, 65, grew up in west Crowley and attended a small, all-Black Catholic school connected to her church and run by the Sisters of the Holy Ghost from San Antonio. St. Theresa Catholic Church still stands on West Third Street, but the school has long been shuttered and the sisters returned to Texas. The youngest of eight, Pete jokes that the sisters gave her mother, a devout Catholic, a discount on tuition at the school ...

AN EXPANSION of Elphinstone has been rubber-stamped almost 18 months after councillors gave it the go-ahead. Eighty new homes to the west of the village were approved by members of the local authority’s planning committee in December 2019. Now, the plans have been signed off by the planning department, with various technicalities ironed out. The scheme, which will be built between Tranent Road and the village’s football pitch, will see 76 new houses built alongside four flats. Hig...

Según los datos reportados por el Ministerio de Salud, la provincia alcanzó los 102.872 infectados y las 1.762 víctimas fatales desde que comenzó la pandemia hasta hoy.

A POTENTIALLY life-saving device has been installed in a phonebox in memory of a popular teacher. Derek Smith, who was a teacher at Tranent’s Ross High School for 35 years, died suddenly in September last year. He was 64. Now, the West Saltoun Community Trust has renovated the phonebox – which no longer has a functioning phone – in the village, where he lived, and installed a defibrillator. Derek’s daughter, Catriona Hunter, will be on hand to officially open the phonebox today ...

Rick LaFountain hits 500 wins in his 53rd season Published by sports@presspub... on Thu, 04/01/2021 - 1:45pm By:  J. Patrick Eaken Oak Harbor’s tennis coaching staff is “all in the family.” At Baywinds Tennis Club after a New Year’s tournament, head coach Rick LaFountain and assistants Greg LaFountain, Jacqueline (McClune) LaFountain, Connor Russell and Ashley (LaFountain) Russell. Connor Russell is Rick’s son-in-law and not on the staff. Oak H...

MORE than £15 million is being spent on two secondary school extensions which will welcome pupils for the first time next year. Building crews have started setting up site compounds at Ross High School in Tranent and at North Berwick High School ahead of extension and reconfiguration projects. Construction work got under way on Monday, with the two schemes expected to cost a total of £15.3 million. Councillor Fiona Dugdale, the local authority’s spokeswoman for education and childre...

A FREE virtual event to celebrate diversity and young people from the LGBT+ community is being held this evening (Friday) by a team of Tranent residents, including students from Ross High School. The event, featuring a quiz and discussion, is being held in celebration of Purple Friday, an annual LGBT+ awareness day which traditionally takes place on the last Friday in February at the end of LGBT History Month. Delivering and hosting the event are Ross High students, teamed up with MYPAS �...