Anderson County School Board to vote on $936K CTE facility funding
The Anderson County Board of Education and Director of Schools Tim Parrott meet for a work session. - Ben Pounds
The Anderson County Board of Education on Thursday is expected to vote on funding for a new Career and Technical Education building for Anderson County Schools. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Nov. 14 on the fifth floor of the Robert Jolley Building in the school administration office. The board will consider two appropriations: $936,436 for the CTE building and $3,817 tied to the Innovative School Models grant funds and the CTE Perkins grant. Director of Schools Tim Parrott said at a work session Tuesday, Nov. 11, that the facility will help accommodate more students in the CTE program. “Our welding program is so good that only 50% of the students who want in get into it,” Parrott said, praising the program’s quality. He said the new building will allow more students to enroll in CTE classes. The board will also vote on an allocation of $126,000 for special-education transfers. Of that amount, $80,000 will go toward purchasing vans for student transport, with the rest allocated for instructional supplies, materials, and a part-time delivery staff salary.
Read MoreBluebird Farm buys extra Christmas trees to help storm-hit N.C. growers
Leo Collins (left), owner of the Bluebird Christmas Tree Farm on Brushy Valley Road, talks with Bryan Cranmore outside the sales tent featuring pre-cut trees mostly imported from the mountains of Western North Carolina in this 2023 file photo. - G. Chambers Williams III
The Bluebird Christmas Tree Farm on Brushy Valley Road will open next Thursday, Nov. 21, to begin the 2024 holiday season, and owner Leo Collins said there will be plenty of trees available. While the farm offers some live trees customers can pick from the fields, the bulk of the trees sold will be pre-cut varieties the farm has purchased from outside vendors, mostly in North Carolina. Two big family-owned tree farms that supply most of Bluebird’s pre-cut trees — Fraser firs — are in the part of Western North Carolina area ravaged by flooding from Hurricane Helene in late September, but there will still be plenty of trees available even though the farms sustained heavy damage from the storm, according to Leo Collins, owner of Bluebird. “The trees came through the flooding without damage,” according to a post on Bluebird’s Facebook page. “However, both farms suffered damage to buildings and equipment, so we have purchased 800 additional trees to support their financial recovery. In addition, a portion of the funds from the sale of these trees will go directly to these farms.
Read MoreGOP sweeps Anderson; incumbents win Norris council seats
All federal and state Republican candidates, including now President-elect Donald Trump, easily carried Anderson County in last week’s general election, which also saw all five Norris City Council members win re-election. Out of 36,745 votes cast throughout the county, Trump received 24,537, or 67.25%; Kamala Harris won just 11,510 votes, or 31.54%. Total voter turnout was 68.58% of Anderson County’s 53,576 registered voters, which fell way short of the 80% turnout predicted by county Elections Administrator Mark Stephens, which he based on the record heavy early-voting totals (nearly 51%). • In Norris, these incumbents were re-elected to the five-member City Council: Will Grinder, 570 votes (16.76%); Bill Grieve, 547 votes (16.09%); Chris Mitchell, 545 votes (16.03%); Loretta Ann Painter, 512 votes (15.06%); and Charles P. “Chuck” Nicholson, 505 votes (14.85%). Losing candidates were Ron Hill, 441 votes (12.97%); and James “Lee” Ragsdale, 280 votes (8.24%). The council will select a mayor and vice mayor from its ranks during its regular meeting Dec. 9. Mitchell serves as mayor now, and Nicholson is vice mayor. There are no rules that determine who gets to be mayor or vice mayor based on vote totals; the decision is entirely up to the City Council. Mitchell has been mayor for nearly 16 years, or all eight two-year terms he has served on the council.
Read MoreVeterans honored with bands, tributes
Hundreds of people lined Main and Market streets in downtown Clinton on Saturday morning for the 16th-annual Anderson County Veterans Day parade. The parade included the combined marching bands of Clinton and Anderson County high schools, JROTC contingents, veterans groups, emergency vehicles, Shriners, and more. Sponsored by the Anderson County American Legion Post 172 and Legion Riders Post 172, in conjunction with VFW Post 12051, Amvets Post 2 and DAV Tri-County Chapter 26, the parade was held to honor all who have served honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces. Units of the parade formed behind the Clinton Community Center, and the procession started after the November community veterans breakfast, held in the gymnasium of the Community Center starting at 8:30 a.m. Other tributes to veterans took place across the county on Monday, which was the actual holiday this year. In Norris, the Lions Club hosted an event for veterans MOnday morning at the pavilion and followed that with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Norris Veterans Memorial Garden in front of the post office.
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