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The Wilkes Board of Education heard from two former Wilkes County Schools employees during the public concerns portion of their meeting Monday night, one about teachers having to catalog their

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Spirit and intention The Associated Press article “Appeals court refuses to reinstate abortion ban” (June 17) stated that a fetus is unviable at 20 weeks. That is medically questionable. The Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade defined viability as the point at which a fetus could survive outside the womb. In 1973 when that decision was made, viability was 28 weeks. To be on the safe side, the court set viability at 24 weeks and came up with the trimester scheme. Now, 48 years later with medi...

I would like to pay tribute to Misty Martin, who passed away Nov. 22 at the young age of 35 and was one of my former athletes. As the obituary stated, she was a member of the 4x100 meter relay team at Wilkes Central High School that set a school record in 2003, which still stands. That relay team consisted of Kristen Southern, Kayla Howell, Kenya Horton and Karissa Kirkland. Kirkland ran in the regionals when the record was initially set. The record was broken a week later by a tenth of a secon...