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I feel stress-free | NC high school grads eligible for free classes at Forsyth Tech The program is paid for in large part by the same grant that will cover tuition at other state community colleges for 2021 high school grads. Author: Grace Holland Updated: 6:34 AM EDT July 2, 2021 FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. — Many teenagers who just graduated high school are getting ready to start a new chapter. Its a fresh start in college after a chaotic couple of years in the pand...

Forsyth Tech Announces Free Tuition For Class Of 2021 by Paul Garber 5:21pm Jun 30, 2021 Forsyth Tech President Janet Spriggs speaks during a press conference Wednesday announcing a new plan to provide free tuition, books and supplies to North Carolina Class of 2021 graduates. PAUL GARBER/WFDD This year’s North Carolina high school graduates will be able to go to Forsyth Technical Community College for free this fall through a public-private partnership just unveiled by the...

Hashim Davis will soon be taking classes at Forsyth Tech, and he’ll do so without one major stressor — how to pay for it. Davis, a recent graduate of Mount Tabor High School, is taking advantage of a new program at Forsyth Tech that offers incoming freshmen one free year of schooling, and that includes tuition, fees and books, a value of about $6,000. Parents are nervous about how they will pay for college following the pandemic. Buzz60’s Keri Lumm shares the results of a new stu...

Low-income mothers living in the Piedmont Park public housing complex will get the chance to earn their high school degrees through a 12-week program taking place at the housing complex,

Northern Regional Hospital recently awarded the 2021 Robin Hardy Hodgin Education Scholarship awards to 10 area high school graduates who plan to pursue a…

Grace ‘Gracie’ Ruark deValinger WILMINGTON — Sadly, Grace ‘Gracie’ Ruark deValinger, 72, was taken from us Saturday, May 22, 2021. Thus, ending this story of a beautiful soul. The bundle of joy known as Mary Grace Ruark burst forth into this world Jan 5, 1949, to proud parents, Frank and Margaret “Mickey” Ruark in Evanston, Illinois. Along with her barely older brother, Bart, the family resettled in Winston-Salem in 1957, from where the kids eventually spread their wings and flew ...

“Usually around this time every year I’ll get a slew of cards,” Kluttz said. This time of year, of course, would be Memorial Day, a solemn holiday anointed by Congress to remember those Americans killed in war. Some of the cards come from people she knows or has at least met. Others, though, are sent by strangers expressing condolences for the 2005 loss of her son, Monta Ruth, a sergeant in the U.S. Army who was killed while serving in Iraq. And while those cards (and the odd pho...

Bruce Chapman, Journal file  Major General Virgil L. Packett II (from right) presents an American flag to Barbara Kluttz, mother of slain soldier Sgt. Monta Ruth, while Sgt. Ruth’s father Frederick Kluttz (2nd from right), Sgt. Ruth’s wife (far left) and daughter Zoe look on during the funeral service for Sgt. Monta Ruth at Evergreen Cemetery in Winston-Salem, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005. Jennifer Rotenizer, Journal file  Spc. David Nelson Timmons, Jr. was killed in action on May 5, 20...

About 1,300 people attended both ceremonies, and more than 3,600 Forsyth Tech students from both classes graduated, the college said in a statement. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the college didn’t conduct an in-person commencement for its 2020 graduates last year, Forsyth Tech said. There was no traditional procession of the graduates walking to their seats inside the stadium because of safety precautions, President Janet Spriggs of Forsyth Tech told 300 graduates at the commencement’s...

From teaching through masks to teaching to blank laptop screens with cameras turned off, what a year to be a teacher. In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, the Journal asked several local folks to talk about a teacher who had an especially strong influence on their lives. Stephanie Wallace, an English teacher at East Forsyth High School. WALT UNKS, JOURNAL STEPHANIE WALLACEThe 2020 Teacher of the Year for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Stephanie Wallace teaches English and l...