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Well appointed contemporary home on Seven Tree Pond.A First floor Master Suite with cathedral ceilings, granite countertops, hardwood floors throughout, walkout basement, multiple decks, stainless appliances.A Bank Owned and priced well below town assessed value.

It is tempting for parents whose savings and earnings have been wiped out by the economic downturn to tell their teens: "We love you.

John Cox has been named Thatcher Chair of English at Darlington School. He replaces Academic Dean David Powell, who held the title since the establishment of the Thatcher Chair in 1992, named for the parents a 1944 graduate.

Gov. Joe Manchin has chosen from within his cabinet for his new chief of staff. Jim Spears has been Manchin's secretary of Military Affairs and Public Safety since 2005.

Georgetown High School seniors Emily Crosby and Justin Smalls certainly fit a dictionary definition of scholar: a learned person.

The average American eats 17.6 pounds of turkey per year, more than double the figure for 1970, according to the National Turkey Federation.

Archives Blogroll ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants: even more SciBlings Category: SO'10 Posted on: November 25, 2009 10:19 AM, by Coturnix As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference , but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list.

CONCORD State highway officials have chosen an alternate route for the planned straightening of Pitts School Road, scrapping their original choice, which would have split the more-than-century-old Barbee Farms.

Ms. McMillen, Department Chair and Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History at Davidson College, is the author of Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Womens Rights Movement .

Does the name of a new Charlotte-Mecklenburg high school connote drugs and loose morals? Some parents in north Mecklenburg think so, touching off a furor over a school named for a distinguished principal, a full nine months before the doors open.

The Agenda, developed earlier this month by leading thinkers at a conference at Davidson College, includes eight "measurable visions:" NURTURING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION: To compete in a 21st century global economy, each Southern state must increase its high school graduation rate and have 60 percent of native Southerners and new ...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association's "graduation success rate" differs from federal graduation statistics because it accounts for students who transfer.

Caroline Brown's milestone showed just what hard work, a broad support structure and some God-given talent can do for a student-athlete. It can produce a straight-A student , a grounded youth and a sensational athlete.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell attended Sunday's Titans-Bills game but left before Bud Adams made obscene gestures toward the Buffalo sideline.

"What kind of place do you want the South to be in 2020? That thought-provoking question was the subject which brought together more than 30 planners, politicians, academics and journalists a ' your humble scribe included a ' for a conference at Davidson College this past weekend by the Center for a Better South .

DAVIDSON, NC, November 14, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Davidson College will dedicate its new Vann Center for Ethics with a day of events on Monday, Nov.

A kindergarten student was left behind on a school bus Monday morning and wasn't found until after the bus was parked in a Charlotte-Mecklenburg school's lot.

Mooresville men and women have served their country in all wars and conflicts since the Revolutionary War.

Nov. 07, 2009 By Mark Washburn Charlotte's classical-music station, Davidson College's WDAV-FM , is looking at adding a Spanish channel.

NOV. 4, 2009 - " More than three dozen thinkers from across the South will gather Saturday for a two-day conference to develop an "Agenda for a Better South" that seeks to inspire Southern leaders to move the region forward.