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Posted Wednesday, January 6, 2021 1:33 pm Clarendon County has been awarded federal funds made available through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) / Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program. Clarendon County has been chosen to receive $10,151 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county. The selection was made by a National Board that is chaired by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and consists of representatives from American Red Cross; Catholic Chari...

Updated December 23, 2020 4:33 p.m. EST By Kirsten Gutierrez, WRAL reporter Raleigh, N.C. — Hospitals across North Carolina are nearing capacity due to an increase in coronavirus patients. The state has topped 3,000 people hospitalized with the virus twice this week, including Wednesday's record of 3,043. Also, a record 696 of those patients were in intensive care on Wednesday. Seventy-six percent of North Carolina's hospital beds are full, as are 83 percent of ICU beds. The state has averaged a record 2,881 COVID-19 patients per day over the last week. North Carolina also has averaged ...

Explaining three eastern regions in NCHSAA realignment Tags: Updated December 14, 2020 2:06 p.m. EST By J. Mike Blake, HighSchoolOT contributor Forgive me if I boast that the NCHSAA's conferences were what we told everyone they would be: radically different. That's why we didn't do projections on them. We didn't know what rules they'd be going by, but we knew things would have to change. If the conferences caught you by surprise, you have to ask yourself: did you stop to realize what this year, the 2020-21 one, is going to be? It's going to be a year with schools collecting next-to-no gat...