Henderson County News
You won't want to miss this week’s Hendersonville Lightning.
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Henderson County News
Tropical Storm Cindy could bring heavy rain and relatively high winds on Thursday and Friday, the National Weather Service, although the forecast calls for Henderson County to get only a glancing blow.
"The latest track has it going up through Louisiana and the Deep South and over toward Tennessee," said Scott Krentz, a meteorologist with the NWS. "We’re be on eastern periphery of it. You could see increased rainfall Thursday night into Friday, maybe even later than that. Thursday into Friday you could have 1 to 2 inches, maybe each day. Right now it’s not looking like complete washout."
"Winds could be kind of gusty but they’re not going to super strong. We could see gusts of 25 to 30 mph," he said. The bigger concern is waterlogged trees that could fall as the area gets more rain and high winds.
“The soil is kind of saturated in a lot of areas," Krentz said. The forecast calls for a 50 percent chance of rain Thursday increasing to 80 percent Thursday night, 70 percent chance Friday and 50 percent through Sunday.
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Mills River News
Four students from Mills River won second place in the Junior Group Performance category at the national finals for the National History Day Contest at the University of Maryland.
Classical Scholars home school students Abigail Byrd, Daphne Fortain, Katherine Grady, Sierra Manning and Maddie Matlickcaptivated judges with a project titled "Petticoat Rebels: How the Women of the Easter Rising Took a Stand for Irish Independence."
More than half a million students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and international schools in China, Korea, and South Asia competed in the 2017 National History Day Contest. Middle and high school students around the world created documentaries, exhibits, papers, performances, and websites based on the theme, Taking a Stand in History.
“The National History Day Contest requires intensive research and analytical thinking skills,” said National History Day Executive Director Dr. Cathy Gorn. “Each student involved in the competition spends countless hours researching, writing, and editing. Only the top projects make it to the National Contest and it requires a truly superb entry to receive second place. These students should be proud of this accomplishment.”
Founded in 1974, at Case Western Reserve University, National History Day has grown from a contest of a few hundred students to a multi-national educational organization dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of history. Students around the world, guided by more than 30,000 teachers, utilize the project-based learning framework that is central to the National History Day® Contest.
This fall, students around the world will begin creating entries for the 2018 contest under the theme, Conflict and Compromise in History. For more information on the contest and how to enter, visit nhd.org/contest. Read Story »
Henderson County News
West Henderson High School health sciences teacher Jodi Rector has been selected as one of 50 middle and high school teachers across the state to participate in the Teachers@Work program, a joint initiative between the North Carolina Business Committee for Education and the state Department of Public Instruction that helps teachers connect the classroom curriculum with the skill sets needed by local businesses.
Each of the state’s eight education regions will be represented by at least two teachers in this year’s initiative.“Teachers@Work is about helping our state’s educators make relevant connections between the workplace and their classroom,” NCBCE Executive Director Caroline Sullivan said in a news release. “This, in turn, will help to create a highly skilled, competitive workforce that will strengthen economic development across North Carolina.”Participating teachers spend one week during their summer monitoring a local company in or close to their community. Teachers will be paired with employees of the company and will be exposed to different aspects of the business. . Rector will spend a week on-site at Mission Health and then create a lesson plan that showcases both hard and soft skills needed by future employees that are specific to Mission Health and the local health care industry. Read Story »
Henderson County News
Bill Crane is working long hours alongside his two older sons to get an event barn ready for an October wedding.
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Henderson County News
RALEIGH — Former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory says Roy Cooper, his Democratic successor, is repaying his trial lawyer campaign contributors by hiring them for expensive, politically motivated lawsuits against the GOP-led General Assembly.
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Henderson County News
Visitors to Henderson County's Grove Street Courthouse are having to walk a little farther this week.
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Henderson County News
Frank Earl Blazey, a decorated Army infantry officer who led troops in the Korean and Vietnam wars before retiring as a brigadier general, died on Monday at the Life Care Center at Lake Pointe Landing. He was 92.
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Flat Rock News
The Village of Flat Rock and the Flat Rock Park and Recreation Foundation announced the installation of a quilt block at The Park at Flat Rock, made possible by a generous donation from Georgia and Pete Bonesteel.
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