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Brown earns scholarship
ELIZABETHTOWN — The Bladen County Association of Teacher Assistants Scholarship Program recently recognized a Bladen County student for her academic achievement, leadership, integrity and community involvement. The scholarship is awarded to student s whose parents or grandparents are teacher assistants employed by Bladen County Schools and a member of the BCATA. Danesha Brown is a 2012 graduate of West Bladen ...
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BCC to offer Entrepreneurship Boot Camp Seminar Series
DUBLIN — The Small Business Center of Bladen Community College will offer a no-cost seminar series “Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.”   The seminars will be held Monday, June 3, to Thursday, June 6,  from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Bladen Community College, Building 2, Room 202. Steve Carver, a public speaker with more than 40 years of business ownership experience, will be presenting the bootcamp. He serves many private enterprises with special t...
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McElveen selected for apprenticeship program
ELIZABETHTOWN — Tavonda McElveen, who is the daughter of Freddie and Ilka McElveen of Elizabethtown, has been selected to participate in the Research Apprenticeship Program for high school students in the school of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at NCA&TSU for summer 2013. She is a rising junior at East Bladen High School. Research apprenticeship students spend one month learning research methods from top scientists in SAES. Appre...
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Opportunity Scholarship Act: Accountable and transparent
When it comes to who should be the ultimate decision maker and most accountable for a child’s education, the answer is not only obvious, but has been reaffirmed year after year: a strong majority of voters believe parents should ultimately have the decision making power regarding how to best educate a child, according to a recent Survey USA poll. That’s accountability at its best.   Unfortunately, not every parent can access th...
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Donate books to local elementary schools
ELIZABETHTOWN — Have you ever heard of the term summer loss? This is not a seasonal diet or exercise program, but a troubling trend in which students lose valuable literacy skills when they stop reading during their break from school. Low-income children are especially susceptible to this problem because they often go home to an environment where there are very few books or other reading resources. As a result, by the end of fifth ...
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Hollis accepted to summer program
CHAPEL HILL — Brittany Hollis has been accepted to the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hollis will be conducting research alongside Dr. Jean Cook in the department of biochemistry and biophysics at the UNC Genetics Medicine Center. Her research focuses on the role of specific proteins in regulating cell cycle checkpoints. Hollis is a rising junior at UNC majoring in biology with a...
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Bladen students achieve honors at UNCP
PEMBROKE — The University of North Carolina at Pembroke recently released its list of honor students from Bladen County for the spring semester of 2013. — Chancellor’s List (students who maintain a minimum GPA of 3.7 while passing at least 12 hours of course work, none of which may be pass/fail classes): Bladenboro — Erica Hope Branch, Anthony G. Davis and Sabrina Denise Utley. Clarkton — Gentle S. Davis. Dublin — Brittney M. Dock...
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Bladen to offer Summer Feeding program
ELIZABETHTOWN — The Bladen County Schools Child Nutrition Department will once again offer free summer meals, breakfast and lunch, to Bladen County students through the Summer Feeding Program. The program will kick off at East Arcadia School on Monday, June 17, and at Dublin Primary, Bladenboro Middle and Elizabethtown Primary on Monday, June 24. The program will last until Wednesday, July 31. Breakfast will be served five days a we...
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Schools partner with Red Cross to support tornado victims
ELIZABETHTOWN — When Julie Sasser’s fourth-grade students at Dublin Primary finished reading the book “Night of the Twisters” by Ivy Ruckman, it seemed too coincidental that the next day’s news headlines featured the Oklahoma tornado. “I felt a strong calling that I needed to do something to help.” said Sasser. “The fact that the tornado hit two schools in Oklahoma made it feel too close to home.” On Tuesday morning following the torna...
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Cain earns Presidential Scholarship
BLADENBORO — Rebecca Ashley Cain will graduate with honors from West Bladen High School on June 7. Cain will attend Campbell University in the fall, where she has earned a Presidential Scholarship valued at $60,000. Cain is the daughter of John and Carol Cain.
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School uniforms coming to a school near you
ELIZABETHTOWN —Students in the Bladen County School District at all levels have already had their clothes laid out for the first day of school in August, when a school uniform policy was adopted during a recent meeting of the Board of Education. Bladen County Schools Supt. Robert Taylor said the policy will mirror one currently in effect in the county’s middle schools. Uniform color choices for East Bladen High School are: pants — solid b...
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