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View Comments The future of Asheville Primary School is still up in the air after Asheville City Schools Board of Education, during its May 10 meeting, postponed voting on plans surrounding the school’s closure.  A vote to close the school by spreading its preschool classes among other Asheville City Schools and moving its Montessori classes to Hall Fletcher Elementary School will take place during the next board meeting May 24.  ACS Executive Director of Student Support Services Shane Cassida presented the BOE with three options for Asheville Primary: leave the school as is with Pre-K th...

Posted: May 06, 2021 8:00 AM MT | Last Updated: May 6 Janet Hume has come out of retirement to help her neighbours as a community social worker for the Fulton Meadows Community League.(Kory Siegers/CBC) CBC's Kory Siegers is spending time digging into stories that explore issues affecting neighbourhoods around the Anthony Henday ring road. We'd always love to hear your ideas. You can email us at edmontonam@cbc.ca or kory.siegers@cbc.ca Driving through Maple Crest, it's easy to see what draws the families that settle here: winding streets, well-used pathways, friendly waves and kids zoomi...

Asheville City Schools is expanding the preschool program to include six locations with 12 classrooms and a capacity of 216. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the district had four locations with 11 classrooms and a capacity of 198 students. These numbers do not include Montessori students or a child care classroom at Asheville High School.  The district's largest preschool program at Asheville Primary School will close after this school year — the latest development in a contentious plan to close the West Asheville school altogether. Asheville Primary's six preschool classes will be spre...

Fayette care group delivers Valentine's cheer to brighten dark year The COVID Cupid Project team recently delivered plants to families important to Fayette’s Maple Crest Campus, including the Bohle family in Sumner, who have had several family members there over the years. Organizers Megan Hanson (left) and Nicole Wolfe (right) are shown delivering a plant to Diane and Wendel Bohle. Afterward, Diane Bohle posted on the Maple Crest Campus Facebook page: “Thank you so much for sharing your love with us! We are feeling it & sending a bunch of love back!” (Photo courtesy of Angelique Lueder...

Share Debut author Julie Carrick Dalton deserves praise for making concerns about important social issues – climate change and immigration – an integral part of her new novel. It isn’t always easy to do that without turning a book into a lecture or consciousness-raising exercise. In this case, the story remains uppermost, and the characters themselves embody the (mostly) good impulses. One memorable summer, about 25 years before the present day of the novel, a friendship was forged between two girls living on the shore of a New Hampshire lake. Cadie’s parents were artists, and Daniela...