Kinston/Jones Free Press (kfp)
Three days before a Lenoir County resident was tested for the novel coronavirus, North Carolina public schools were ordered to shut down.
And eight days after Lenoir County Public Schools did so with really no choice, the resident received the first lab-confirmed positive test in the county – on March 24, 2020. I don’t think that anyone imagined exactly what was about to happen locally and around the world last year at this time, LCPS superintendent Brent Williams said. In what seemed to be an instant, the uncertainty of the COVID-19 virus turned the world upside down.