N.C. PTA grant, volunteers make school’s second annual event a success By Jessica [email protected] residents and family members of Harrisburg Elementary School students were able to visit Greece on Saturday while listening to Scottish bagpipes. “Yiasou, welcome to Greece,” Gwen Politis said while standing beside a booth decorated in blue and white, the colors of […]
Nonprofit officials hope school tours will help community see how funds are used By Jessica [email protected] Academic Learning Center will be offering school site tours to the community to raise awareness about its program, starting this week and continuing through the school year. LeeAnn Miller, director of development for the nonprofit organization, will take a […]
By Ben [email protected] Community College is very close to signing a lease agreement for a building on the North Carolina Research Campus. RCCC President Carol Spalding said, after further negotiations with campus developer Castle & Cooke, the lease agreement could be ready by the end of this week. Friday, the N.C. Community College Board gave […]
Editor’s note:For his senior project, required for graduation, Hickory Ridge High School senior Albert Chang is studying photojournalism and working with Harrisburg Horizons editor Jonathan E. Coleman to improve his skills as a photographer and learn about the history of photography. Throughout the remainder of the year, some of his photos, and self-reflections about his […]
By Jessica [email protected] was confidence, repetition and a close bond that cheerleaders from the Victory! Cheerleading all-star senior team credit for their recent win at the 2008-09 Cheersport National Championship in Atlanta. The team of 20 girls, ages 14 to 18, competed against eight teams in the senior small, Level 4 Division II. There were […]
By Ben [email protected] MURDOCK Study, Duke University’s longitudinal study that promises to “rewrite the textbook of medicine,” will begin enrolling participants on Monday. The study is looking for 50,000 participants from Cabarrus County. The study proposes to look at individual differences in how human disease affects the population. Researchers are focusing on cardiovascular disease, osteoarthritis, […]
By Karen Cimino [email protected] County park officials don’t want the economic downturn to prevent residents from sending their kids to camp this year, so the county has lowered registration fees for the 2009 Discovery Day Camp program. “In light of what’s been going on, we want to be proactive and still encourage people to come […]
By Karen Cimino [email protected] only IKEA furniture store between Washington and Atlanta opens in University City on Wednesday with more than 400 new employees, more than 10,000 products and no worries about the economy. The new 356,000-square-foot IKEA Charlotte store is located at the City Boulevard exit off Interstate 85. The store is big — […]
By Karen Cimino [email protected] — Cabarrus County Schools Superintendent Barry Shepherd cautioned commissioners that he would have to cut 90 teaching positions to make a 2.9 percent budget cut eight months into the school year. Commissioners heard Shepherd and Kannapolis City School officials’ objections, but then voted unanimously to trim their budgets by 2.9 percent […]
By Jessica [email protected] Cabarrus County Board of Education received a unique visitor at last week’s meeting. Buster, the robotic school bus, greeted board members and reviewed safety tips as a part of “Love the Bus” week, a national campaign that began Feb. 9. Throughout the week, Buster visited R. Brown McAllister, Harrisburg, Pitts School Road […]