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The bulk of the meeting of the Lincoln County Board of Education on Tuesday, May 11, was spent recognizing students and staff members for their achievements.  Pierson Rickard, an eighth grade East Lincoln Middle School student, who was named seventh chair trombone in the North Carolina All State Band. He was the only Lincoln County student to make the All-State Band. The East Lincoln High School Cheval Winter Guard competed in the 2021 Virtual Winter Guard International World Championships and received the rating of “outstanding” for their performance. They also received first pl...

Former students recall integration of Acadiana schools Sign In LEIGH GUIDRY, Lafayette Daily Advertiser May 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11Albert "Al" Hayes Jr., right, a member of the St. Landry Parish School Board, speaks with Ken Richard outside a coffee shop in Eunice, La., Monday, May 3, 2021. As a 1969 graduate of Charles Drew High School, he was in the last graduating class of the all-Black high school before schools in the area were integrated. (Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP)SCOTT CLAUSE/APShow MoreShow Less 2of11Antoinette Pete and Jimmy Meche look at C...

A CALL for kindness been made by Tranent residents after a man from the town with additional support needs was targeted by cruel bullies. And the headteacher of Ross High School has apologised on behalf of the school to the bullied man and his family. Jamie Lusk, well-known and liked in Tranent, has recently faced harassment from some of the town’s youngsters. Close family friend Katie Mcintyre said that 32-year-old Jamie, who lives in the town with dad George and mum Jane, had a “heart of gold” and was a “happy go lucky lad” who liked to “do his own thing and not bother a...

‘Don’t hate; just keep your head held high’ Antoinette Chaffers’ Pete, 65, grew up in west Crowley and attended a small, all-Black Catholic school connected to her church and run by the Sisters of the Holy Ghost from San Antonio. St. Theresa Catholic Church still stands on West Third Street, but the school has long been shuttered and the sisters returned to Texas. The youngest of eight, Pete jokes that the sisters gave her mother, a devout Catholic, a discount on tuition at the school that went up to eighth grade. Her siblings continued into Ross High School, the school afforded to B...

AN EXPANSION of Elphinstone has been rubber-stamped almost 18 months after councillors gave it the go-ahead. Eighty new homes to the west of the village were approved by members of the local authority’s planning committee in December 2019. Now, the plans have been signed off by the planning department, with various technicalities ironed out. The scheme, which will be built between Tranent Road and the village’s football pitch, will see 76 new houses built alongside four flats. Highland Residential Developments Ltd’s proposals were unanimously approved by the planning committee...