Outdoor learning engages students

April 18, 2018

Now that spring is here, students at G.W. Bulluck Elementary School are able to take better advantage of their new outdoor learning environment.

Students in Melissa Gay’s fourth-grade math class recently did their “classwork” outside.

Gay set up math problems at…

RMA awards annual four-year scholarship

April 17, 2018

Aurora Madison Henderson, daughter of Christopher Henderson and Dr. Jessica Henderson, has been awarded this year’s Ann MacPherson Weaver Memorial Scholarship at Rocky Mount Academy.

Currently an eighth-grader at Magellan Charter School in Raleigh, Henderson will attend RMA in the fall on a…

Local teachers trace history of mill

April 16, 2018

Two Twin Counties teachers have been selected to develop lesson plans about the Rocky Mount Mills community, and they are asking local residents to share their memories and pictures for their undertaking.

Renny Taylor, who teaches history at Nash Central High School, and Elijah Kane, who teaches…

Cooper promotes teen driving safety

April 14, 2018

Gov. Roy Cooper was back at his alma mater on Friday as he helped the N.C. HIghway Patrol kick off its annual “Operation Drive to Live” initiative at Northern Nash High School.

“Operation Drive to Live” is a week-long initiative designed to bring attention to the loss of…

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NCC Foundation launches fundraising campaign

April 13, 2018

The Nash Community College Foundation Board of Directors recently kicked off its annual community fundraising campaign.

Funds raised during the campaign will support deserving students seeking help with their educational expenses and will also assist with instructional needs of the college.

Each…

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Schools to offer multi-year teacher contracts

April 17, 2018

Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools will be offering multi-year contracts to experienced teachers in good standing, an option that has not been allowed by the state legislature for the past five years.

In an effort to eliminate tenure, the N.C.General Assembly voted in 2013 to only allow one-year…

Schools sign new janitorial contract

April 16, 2018

Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools now has a contract with a new janitorial service provider after spending more than a year trying to make the switch.

The Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education voted Thursday to approve a nearly $2.5 million contract with Beck Education Services to provide cleaning…

Meetings to take input on school consolidation

April 13, 2018

NASHVILLE — The Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education will begin holding a series of meetings in May to discuss the possible construction of a new elementary school and the potential consolidation of three elementary schools into that facility.

Superintendent Dr. Shelton Jefferies provided more…