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El comisario de la Policía Nacional, José María Delgado, afirma que han bajado ligeramente las infracciones penales aunque las cifras no son comparables con 2020 por la situación anómala de la pandemia.

Play it again: The Cleveland County school board voted against mandatory masks in school once again.

Board to drop more than $125k on school locks, keys Cleveland County Schools will spend just under $129,000 to replace every lock and key on doors inside of Kings Mountain High School. The project was approved on Monday by the county Board of Education. The board voted unanimously to approve the project. The work will be done by Seven Oaks Doors & Hardware, Inc and will consist of installing hundreds of Dorma-branded locks throughout the school and keys for each of those locks. According to boa...

Cleveland County School Board hires new attorney The decision, made during the January meeting, was not without controversy.  After a lengthy discussion, five members approved the hiring of Sink Law Firm while four voted against.  A husband-and-wife team, Sink Law Firm appears online as a Charlotte company, though Jonathan Sink told Gaston County Commissioners a year ago that they were moving to Belmont. He was being hired as Gaston County’s attorney at the time. Sink bought a house ...

Auditoriums at Burns and Crest high schools will be built thanks at $20 million in state and county money. Every year, the states Needs-Based Public School Capital Fund gives grants to schools and districts across North Carolina. This year the fund is providing $15 million for new auditoriums at Crest and Burns High Schools in Cleveland County. Cleveland County Schools will add $5 million in local money to the projects. "Cleveland County Schools is extremely excited to learn we have been award...

Board sets new date for full-time instruction for Cleveland County

Board votes for new floors, bleachers at two high schools.

Every regular meeting of the Cleveland County Board of Education features a time for the public to voice their thoughts or concerns. Usually, comments come in groups of two or three, but on Monday 19 people signed up to speak.   The sheer volume of commenters required the board to extend the public participation portion of the meeting from the usual 15-minute period to nearly an hour.   Speakers came prepared with printed letters and petitions to read or speeches to give.   At issue for mos...

When the board met earlier this week, neither item was on the agenda. The reason, according to board chairman Robert Queen, is because the board is not yet ready to tackle those issues. "I expect the attorney selection committee to have a recommendation for the board at the meeting on the 25th," said Queen in an email to The Shelby Star. "Display of the Ten Commandments is still with the Policy Committee that has not had time to meet yet.  There is no deadline for them to report." The latter ...

The administration building for Cleveland County Schools, Shelby, N.C. | Google Maps A North Carolina school board is exploring the possibility of putting Ten Commandments displays near the entrances at each of its school buildings, a possibility that has upset a secular legal group. The Cleveland County School Board first discussed the idea at its Dec. 14 board meeting, drawing support and criticism in the last week from opposing national First Amendment legal groups.  During the December...