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The Washington-area musician battled Parkinson’s disease and helped launch Eva Cassidy to posthumous fame.

By Patrick Holmes Lenoir County Public Schools Two first-year coaches and a team of fifth graders competing in its first LCPS Elementary Battle of the Books brought home the first-place prize for La Grange Elementary School for the first time since 2014. The La Grange team – Annaliese Miller, Abby Martin, Alisson Rios, Lilly Johnson, Easton Vinson and Kelsie Stroud – dominated much of the round-robin competition to top second-place Moss Hill Elementary 158-143. Northwest Elementary finished...

Three LCPS teachers finalist for district Teacher of the Year By Patrick Holmes Lenoir County Public Schools Three young women who put their hearts into teaching Lenoir County Public Schools’ youngest students have surfaced as finalists for the district honor of 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year. Selection of Shalona Newkirk of Northwest Elementary School, Heather Sloan of Banks Elementary School and Darylanne Towery of Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School was announced Wednesday afternoon after a pane...

Share You used your position as a priest and abused the position of trust you were placed in to take advantage of those vulnerable children and I find that aggravating, Judge Gary Massey said.  The judge said the former priests old age did not much mitigate his sentence because he had spent 50 years in the community while his victims suffered.  I consider in this case your advanced age is of only limited mitigation ... because youve had more than 50 years in the community since the commission...

Former Catholic priest and paedophile Patrick Holmes jailed a second time for sexually abusing children ThuThursday 25 updated ThuThursday 25 FebFebruary 2021 at 2:06pm Patrick Holmes abused the five children while he was a parish priest at two Perth churches. Share Print text only Cancel An elderly "defrocked" Catholic priest has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years jail for sexually abusing five children in Perth in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Key points: Patrick Holmes was jailed for thre...

In the League: NC alums on Buccaneers, Packers prepare for NFC title game Subject:* A friend wanted you to see this item from High School OT: https://wr.al/1JjuV On this weeks edition of HighSchoolOT In the League, Kyle Morton and Joel Bryant break down the NFLs divisional playoffs, the standout performances of Jaire Alexander Show Transcript Hello, everyone. Welcome back to high school T in the league. Were getting down to it, Kyle. Commerce, Shame Ship weeks coming up last week was divisional...

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By Patrick Holmes Lenoir County Public Schools A $50,000 grant awarded through the national No Kid Hungry program to Lenoir County Public Schools will help stock emergency food pantries at middle and high schools and provide meals to carry at-risk students through their weekends. While buying groceries for distribution as early as March, the grant will also serve as seed money for a more expansive effort to bring the same food assistance and nutrition education to older students that the distri...

LCPS to begin on-site COVID testing program in January By Patrick Holmes Lenoir County Public Schools Lenoir County Public Schools plans to begin on-site rapid testing for COVID-19 in mid-January as part of a pilot program developed by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. On Thursday, NCDHHS announced 17 public school districts and 11 charter schools as participants in the program, which is designed is to slow the spread of Covid-19 by quickly identifying students and sta...

Students of migrant families get gift of laptops from ECU library By Patrick Holmes Lenoir County Public Schools For students of migrant farmworker families in Lenoir County Public Schools, it might seem that Santa Claus has relocated to Laupus Library at East Carolina University. A $75,000 federal grant awarded to the ECU library brought early Christmas presents of Lenovo laptops and accessories to 45 of these LCPS students. In all, the grant provided 100 laptops to students in eastern North C...