Nothing gets me hyped up like a good ol' school board meeting.

The board barely has a quorum. Three members are absent tonight.

The RSS Board of Education has spent nearly two hours in closed session and member Bryan Hightower just stormed out of the building.

Spencer extended its audit contract with the accounting firm R.H. CPAs a third time. Rick Wicker, a firm audit manager, said the town should have a draft by the week's end. The last time the board extended he said it would be ready "within a week or so." That was two months ago.

We have ousted election pizza for election banh mi.

School board member Travis Allen is running away with the sheriff race. He should easily stay above 30% of the vote and avoid a runoff with county commissioner Mike Caskey unless a huge reversal happens in the last few precincts.

A teacher I spoke to said she owed $6,000 in federal taxes and found nine people in her school who owed in the thousands. salisburypost.com/2022/06/02/som…

A Post employee was shot at and followed after trying to finish a delivery route Sunday. salisburypost.com/2022/06/13/sal…

Just got off the phone with retiring Livingstone College President Jimmy Jenkins. The college is adding an MBA degree, its first graduate program. The college has set a goal to become Livingstone University at some point in the future, but has not applied for the change yet.

Kelly Withers is the new Superintendent of Rowan-Salisbury Schools. "It feels good to be home," Withers said.

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They're playing Tiny Dancer right before he's scheduled to go on.

Trump is 30 minutes late so far. For a minute it seemed like they were just gonna play through the whole "Phantom of the Opera" soundtrack.

Came out, teased doing a three-hour speech and quickly directed the crowd to boo the media section.

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The New Hanover BOE chair times public comments with an hourglass he pulls out of a dedicated leather case.