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Cabarrus schools salary study finds supplements low
CONCORD, N.C. – The first study of Cabarrus County school salaries in almost 20 years reveals a mixed bag of market comparisons in compensation levels but found that teacher and administrator supplements fall short of other school systems.
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Mexican dancers shake up Concord library
CONCORD, N.C. – The sounds of traditional Mexican music and quick dance steps could be heard in the second-floor auditorium of the Concord Library on Thursday.
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Kannapolis schools sending $33M facilities request to Cabarrus
The Kannapolis City Board of Education is sending an updated facilities request to Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners this week that totals about $33.3 million and includes adding a new intermediate school on the property beside the current middle school, renovating the current intermediate school into an elementary school and adding wings onto Kannapolis Middle School to increase capacity.
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Teacher of Year 'like magic' in classroom
CONCORD, N.C. -- When Mariko Weinhardt teaches, it is like magic, said Brooke Moore, one of her fourth-grade students at Carl A. Furr Elementary School.
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Furr educator named district's Teacher of the Year
Mariko Weinhardt, a fourth-grade teacher at Carl A. Furr Elementary School, was named the 2012-13 Teacher of the Year for Cabarrus County Schools on Wednesday.
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Students put talents on display at Festival of the Arts
A festival that has been said to show how the arts can bring people together for a common purpose will take the stage Friday.
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Kannapolis keeps current school board members
Voters decided to keep the incumbents for the Kannapolis City Board of Education.
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Kannapolis keeps current school board members
Voters decided to keep the incumbents for the Kannapolis City Board of Education. Doris Buchanan, 80, Charles Mitchell, 74, and Todd Adams, 43, were all reelected to the board on Tuesday.
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On the menu: Nickel hike in Cabarrus school lunch
The Cabarrus County Board of Education will likely approve a five-cent school lunch price increase for the 2012-13 school year during its business meeting next week. If approved, it would be the first lunch price increase in at least four years, board members said.
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Cabarrus United Way exceeds fundraising goal
Cabarrus County United Way celebrated raising $425,000 in its 2011 campaign, about $22,000 more than the previous year.
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Scout's global Eagle project aims to help the disabled
A Life Scout in Troop 91 from Saint James Lutheran Church in Concord, Wil Meadows is collecting wheelchairs that will be distributed to disabled people around the world.
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Kannapolis school board candidates discuss priorities
They have different backgrounds and their own reasons for running, and next week, voters will decide which of the four candidates will fill the three open seats on the Kannapolis City Board of Education.
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Cabarrus comes together for Special Olympics Spring Games
About 600 athletes, hundreds of volunteers, the U.S. Army Band and a parachute demonstration team gathered for the Special Olympics of Cabarrus County’s 2012 Spring Games this week.
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Kannapolis, Concord students get hands-on with health sciences
Students from A.L. Brown and Concord high schools were gloved and gowned for surgery at Cabarrus College of Health Sciences on Thursday.
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At 96, Kannapolis woman is back to work with a smile
Naomi Snipes had her first job when she was about 6 years old and her little hands got just large enough to hold a hoe and work on a farm.
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Kannapolis schools approve budget request
Kannapolis City Schools is planning to emphasize the point that most of the capital outlay funds it is asking for are for one-time only, as it plans to present its budget request to local government officials.
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History Walk and museum reopening to be held Saturday
The Historic Cabarrus Association and Concord Museum, along with Cabarrus County Community Foundation and Shoe Show, Inc., will present the third Concord History Walk from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
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CHS prom returns to Hotel Concord
When the students from Concord High School attend their prom next month, it will be at a different location but one full of tradition. For the first time in years, the school’s prom will return to the historic Hotel Concord.
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Harrisburg students hear about life in Mexico City
Fifth-graders at Carolina International School were recently able to hear firsthand about what life is like in Mexico City.
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Cabarrus seventh-graders get fast science lessons from drag racer, astronaut
Northwest Cabarrus Middle School student Ethan Bemis said he never thought space exploration and drag racing could be so similar.
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