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Cumberland County Schools officials have released the district’s graduation exercise plans for seniors, and academic calendars for the next school year.  A news release from the district stated that this year’s ceremonies will be held in the Crown Coliseum and follow all North Carolina COVID-19 guidelines and capacity limitations.  “This plan was formulated after district administrators met with high school principals and senior class student leaders,” the news release stated. �...

Purdue Summer Start program honored with Students in Transition Award Note to journalists: Images of student mentors are available on a Google Drive. John Gipson is available for web-based interviews. Journalists visiting campus should follow visitor health guidelines. Makayla Colby, a junior in the College of Education and a mentor in the Summer Start program, places welcome materials in a residence hall room for incoming Summer Start students. Summer Start was named one of the recipients of t...

12 Celebs Who Ended Up With Their High School Sweethearts Celebrity By TooFab Staff | Getty These celebrity couples were a match made in high school! Way before their fame and fortune, these stars knew they had found "the one" when they were still walking down the halls on the way to algebra class. While young love doesnt always stand the test of time, these stars definitely got their fairytale ending with their high school sweethearts. From Steph...

The rapidly changing global economy demands that our high school students master skills and develop competencies needed to enter the workforce or succeed in college. A high school diploma no

Please Donate Jack Goldsworthy and the Historic Sunset Gas Station The story of the beautiful 1920s gas station on the corner of 16th Avenue and Irving Street. Jack Goldsworthy and the Historic Sunset Gas Station by Lorri Ungaretti Originally appeared in WNP Member Newsletter, January 2013. In its heyday, the gas station at 16th Avenue and Irving Street provided gasoline and automobile servicing, as well as new and used Pontiac cars., circa 1940 - Next time you’re in the Sunset District, g...

In the 1940s, Nick Gabaldón, an athletic, handsome student at Santa Monica High School, would often escape class to Bay Street Beach, a half-mile stretch of shoreline roughly between Pico and Bicknell Streets, by the Casa Del Mar hotel. Derisively called "the Inkwell" by some white Angelenos, Bay Street Beach was a haven for people of color. Here, Gabaldón would bodysurf for hours, impressing two white lifeguards who loaned him a rescue board. With this heavy, 13-foot board, Gabaldón taught ...

Rebecca ‘Becky’ Lum Oct. 19, 1930 — Nov. 23, 2020 Rebecca ‘Becky’ Lum, 90, passed away peacefully on Nov. 23, 2020, in Vacaville, California. Becky was born Oct. 19, 1930, to Harry and Lillie Lum in San Francisco, California, where she lived from childhood through college. She attended Francisco Junior High School and Polytechnic High School. Becky was naturally athletic and enjoyed badminton, ping-pong and tennis, even earning medals in city championships when competing on a Chinese ...

According to the history , the first Jewish settlers arrived in the tiny, Wild West pueblo of Los Angeles in the late 1840s. In 1851 (the year after California became an American state), census workers recorded eight Jewish citizens in Los Angeles, a town of roughly 1,600 souls. “All of them were bachelors who lived in their stores on the ground floor of the city’s lead commercial building, a two-story structure located at the southeast corner of Aliso and Los Angeles Streets,” writes hi...