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A 13-year-old boy detained in connection with the shooting of a classmate on Tuesday morning was charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon and bringing a weapon into Hendersonville Middle School, Hendersonville police said around 5:30 p.m. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville Middle School | school shootings | Hendersonville Middle School shooting
Henderson County public school students next week will take steps to prevent bullying, recognize when their peers are isolating themselves and sitting with a different group in the lunchroom than their usual clique. Read Story »
Tags: school shootings | mental health | bullying
Blue Ridge Community College Police Chief Daran Dodd, who built the campus police force from the ground up and instituted active shooter and sexual assault training for students and faculty, was recently selected as one of 40 law enforcement professionals from around the world to receive the International Association of Chiefs of Police 40 Under 40 Leadership Award. Read Story »
Tags: BRCC | school shootings | law enforcement | Laura Leatherwood | Daran Dodd | active shooter
More than a dozen officers completed the Basic School Resource Officer’s course hosted by the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office in partnership with Blue Ridge Community College. Read Story »
Tags: school shootings | school resource officers | SROs
First responders and the Henderson County school system will conduct an active assailant exercise on Thursday at East Henderson High School involving five local law enforcement agencies, county school and Blue Ridge Community College personnel, EMTs, firefighters, 911 dispatchers and area hospitals. Read Story »
Tags: school shootings | mass shootings
Hendersonville City Council members are hoping that at least three county commissioners will vote next week to go beyond the county manager's recommended fiscal year 2020 budget and OK $200,000 to cover the cost of SROs in four county schools in the city limits. Read Story »
One of two UNC Charlotte students killed in the shooting is a graduate of T.C. Roberson High and the grandson of an Edneyville woman. Read Story »
Tags: school shootings
The Henderson County sheriff’s office has closed the gap in the county’s goal of protecting every school with an armed deputy, reducing the vacancies from 11 to five with a couple more SROs in the pipeline. Read Story »
Through a state Community Partners Safety Grant secured by Henderson County Public Schools and the Western Region Education Service Alliance, certified student services staff will be providing training to child- and family-focused organizations to support young children and their families in Henderson County. Read Story »
Tags: school shootings | mental health | pre-K | Smart Start
School Board candidates are broadly in agreement on the major issues the elected leaders will face in the months ahead, including support for saving the historic classroom building as part of the Hendersonville High School and opposition to allowing teachers to carry firearms. Read Story »
Tags: school shootings | HHS construction plan | 2018 School Board election
Tags: school shootings
The Henderson County Board of Commissioners ratified its earlier decision that rejected funding police officers covering four schools in the city of Hendersonville. Read Story »
Tags: school shootings | local government budgets | 2018-19 budgets
The Henderson County Board of Commissioners turned down one commissioner's request to fund police officers in schools in the city of Hendersonville, a shift in budget policy that would have given a break to city residents who are facing a tax increase to pay for new officers. Read Story »
Tags: school shootings | local government budgets | 2018-19 budgets
Tags: school shootings | guns | Parkland High School shootings | gun control
Propelled into action by the Parkland High School shootings and a rise in threats to schools here, Henderson County Sheriff Charlie McDonald, elected officials, school administrators and parents on Thursday announced broad and aggressive strategies to make schools safe. Read Story »
Tags: school shootings | local government budgets | 2018 School Board election
U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, the newly elected congressman, had local law officers behind him as he chose a local elementary school classroom to announce his support for $30 million in federal spending on cops in classrooms. Read Story »
Tags: school shootings | U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows | guns
A citizens' appeal to the Hendersonville City Council to outlaw the sale of assault weapons fizzled when the mayor and the city attorney said the state Legislature had granted local government no power to make such a law. Read Story »