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HIGHLAND COMMUNITY CENTER – Black history program, Sat., Feb. 15, 5 p.m., with speaker Andell McCoy. Raffle tickets $5 each. Everyone is invited.

Protests broke out in Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas and other cities across the country prompted by a new deportation policies ...

Local income taxes can be an important progressive revenue raiser, as they ask more of higher-income households and are ...

The Cherokee County School District Board of Trustees voted have selected the finalist candidates for the superintendent position. The position has been held by multiple interim superintendents since ...

Chapel Hill-Carrboro leader Nyah Hamlett talks about what “most superintendents of color hold in and suffer in silence.” ...

Nyah Hamlett has seen successes, controversy since hired to lead the 11,000-student district during the pandemic.

The suspects allegedly physically assaulted a store employee and stole items, along with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Jack Carpenter has recently been named the new head coach for Montgomery Central High School football. He is known as Coach ...

“Not a single federal holiday honors a woman,” said U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio.). Beatty said designating Dec. 1 as Rosa ...

A part of the Appalachian Trail in Western North Carolina has reopened nearly four and a half months after Helene.