Blog – Page 48 – Moore County Edition

Feb

17

2022

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By Moore County Staff

Montgomery Co. teacher suspended after gun found in classroom

Government, NewsEducation, firearms, schools

TROY — A high school teacher was suspended without pay after a search of his classroom found a loaded gun, knives and ammunition. Jason Hensley, 47, was suspended by Montgomery County Schools. A search of Hensley's desk at Montgomery Central High School turned up a loaded .380-caliber handgun. An additional investigation of the classroom turned up concealed knives and ammunition. Hensley, who is a health-science teacher, is a part-time police officer with the town of Mount Gilead. While he may have been in violation of school system policy, there was nothing illegal about having the gun in the classroom.

Feb

17

2022

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Volunteers sought for US Adaptive Open

SportsPinehurst, USGA

PINEHURST — The USGA has established the U.S. Adaptive Open Championship, a new national championship that will showcase the world’s best golfers with disabilities. The inaugural competition will be conducted on Course No. 6 at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club July 18-20. The announcement of the championship follows through on a 2017 pledge by the USGA to establish a championship for the adaptive golf community. The championship will be contested over 54 holes of stroke play and is open to males and females, professionals and amateurs, with either physical impairment, sensory impairment, or intellectual impairment. The field will consist of…

Feb

17

2022

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By Moore County Staff

LEVY: When will they ever learn?

Opinions

As I explore the present, I can’t avoid comparing it to the past. The names change. The places and faces are never identical. But like a false backdrop behind the camera in a Zoom call, it’s only cosmetic. Essential reality never changes. For instance, on March 7, 1965, a group of voting rights demonstrators blocked traffic as they walked across Alabama’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marchers did not have a permit; so, the police ordered them to disperse. The marchers disobeyed the police and marched anyway. The result was called Bloody Sunday. Similarly, a group of Canadian truckers blocked the…

Feb

11

2022

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Picerno drops House bid, submits name for vacant Moore commission seat

Government, NewsNick Picerno

PINEHURST — Former Moore County Commissioner Nick Picerno said in an email to supporters he was submitting his name to the Moore County Republican Executive Committee to fill the vacant term of Louis Gregory, who recently announced his intent to resign in February. In life, things change, that’s a given. In the past couple of weeks since announcing my intention to run for NC House District 78, several events have taken place that significantly effect that decision," said Picerno. He cited the ongoing litigation over the state's new district lines, saying that the court battle has caused chaos and confusion…

Feb

11

2022

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By A.P. Dillon

Moore County Schools launches investigation into sex ed allegations

NewsMoore County Schools, New Century Middle School

RALEIGH — The Moore County public school district has launched an investigation after allegations of explicit remarks made by a New Century Middle School teacher during a course on reproductive health and safety. Radio show host J.D. Zumwalt highlighted the allegations during his Jan. 27 broadcast and prefaced his comments by telling his audience to change the channel because none of what he was about to say should be heard by children. Zumwalt referenced two children who heard the alleged remarks. One was an 11-year-old female student in sixth grade and the other was allegedly a 13-year-old. The 11-year-old came…

Feb

09

2022

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Moore County Schools creates book review committee

Government, News

CARTHAGE — Following a challenge to a controversial book with a transgender story-line, the Moore County Schools has appointed a Community Media and Technology Advisory Committee to review the inclusion of the book “George” in two school libraries. The book remains on the shelves at Union Pines High School and McDeeds Creek Elementary School after building-level committees at both schools recommended the book stay in the libraries. The committee — which will be comprised of teachers, administrators, parents and students — will make a recommendation to the Board of Education. By statute, the local board of education has sole authority…

Feb

09

2022

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Gregory changes retirement date

Government, News

PINEHURST — After announcing his retirement from the Moore County Board of Commissioners with an effective date of March 1, Louis Gregory has changed his retirement date to Feb 16. The County GOP Executive Committee will select Gregory’s replacement at a Feb. 18 meeting. Gregory’s change will lengthen the amount of time the appointee will serve. The appointee will serve through December 1. A special election will be held allowing voters to select the person who will complete the final two years of Gregory’s term.

Feb

09

2022

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Ben Carson coming to Pinehurst for lecture

Entertainment, EventsBen Carson, donald trump

PINEHURST — Former federal Housing Secretary Ben Carson will speak at the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center on March 18. Carson will be the first speaker of 2022 in the James E. Holshouser, Jr. Lecture Series, which is hosted at the Bradshaw Center. Carson is a retired neurosurgeon and politician who served in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021. He was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries.

Feb

09

2022

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Kellyanne Conway memoir ‘Here’s the Deal’ coming out May 24

Entertainmentdonald trump, Kellyanne Conway

NEW YORK — Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has a memoir out May 24: “Here's the Deal” is billed by her publisher as a look beyond the headlines of the Trump administration and her family life, including her husband and prominent Trump detractor, George Conway. “Not just the story of the White House, ‘Here’s the Deal' takes the reader inside Kellyanne’s own house, on her own terms,” Threshold Editions announced Wednesday. “Kellyanne became a fulcrum between the see-sawing demands of a West Wing job in one of the most consequential eras in our history, motherhood to four school-age children,…

Feb

09

2022

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Pinehurst to review proposed street dining ban in March

Government, NewsPinehurst

PINEHURST — The Village of Pinehurst’s proposed outdoor street dining ban will be subject to review some time in March. The ban, which is slated to take effect on April 1, would prevent restaurants from using adjacent property for outdoor seating. Expanded outdoor dining has been a rare area of bipartisan agreement between Republican legislative leaders and the Democratic governor, with outdoor options first executed via executive order from Roy Cooper and later codified into state law. A discussion during the Village Council’s Jan. 11 work session outlined three options for outdoor street dining. Jeff Batton, Assistant Village Manager of…