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View Comments The future of Asheville Primary School is still up in the air after Asheville City Schools Board of Education, during its May 10 meeting, postponed voting on plans surrounding the school’s closure.  A vote to close the school by spreading its preschool classes among other Asheville City Schools and moving its Montessori classes to Hall Fletcher Elementary School will take place during the next board meeting May 24.  ACS Executive Director of Student Support Services Shane Cass...

Posted: May 06, 2021 8:00 AM MT | Last Updated: May 6 Janet Hume has come out of retirement to help her neighbours as a community social worker for the Fulton Meadows Community League.(Kory Siegers/CBC) CBCs Kory Siegers is spending time digging into stories that explore issues affecting neighbourhoods around the Anthony Henday ring road. Wed always love to hear your ideas. You can email us at edmontonam@cbc.ca or kory.siegers@cbc.ca Driving through Maple Crest, its easy to see what draws t...

Asheville City Schools is expanding the preschool program to include six locations with 12 classrooms and a capacity of 216. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the district had four locations with 11 classrooms and a capacity of 198 students. These numbers do not include Montessori students or a child care classroom at Asheville High School.  The districts largest preschool program at Asheville Primary School will close after this school year — the latest development in a contentious plan to ...

Fayette care group delivers Valentines cheer to brighten dark year The COVID Cupid Project team recently delivered plants to families important to Fayette’s Maple Crest Campus, including the Bohle family in Sumner, who have had several family members there over the years. Organizers Megan Hanson (left) and Nicole Wolfe (right) are shown delivering a plant to Diane and Wendel Bohle. Afterward, Diane Bohle posted on the Maple Crest Campus Facebook page: “Thank you so much for sharing your lov...

Share Debut author Julie Carrick Dalton deserves praise for making concerns about important social issues – climate change and immigration – an integral part of her new novel. It isn’t always easy to do that without turning a book into a lecture or consciousness-raising exercise. In this case, the story remains uppermost, and the characters themselves embody the (mostly) good impulses. One memorable summer, about 25 years before the present day of the novel, a friendship was forged betwee...

After awarding 25 Rapid Response Grants to support classroom instruction during the pandemic, the Kokomo Public Schools Education Foundation awarded an additional $5,700 in teacher mini-grants to fund creative classroom projects. More than 10 Kokomo School Corporation educators, representing five district schools, received grants during the fall mini-grant distribution cycle. The Education Foundation Board of Directors semi-annually (each semester) awards teacher enhancement mini-grants worth a...