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Taking a victory lap: Bright retires from APA

Tuesday, June 30 closed out Dr. Bert Bright’s lengthy career at Arendell Parrott Academy as he retired from the Headmaster position he has held since 2014. Teachers joined the office, housekeeping, and maintenance staff in cheering a “victory lap” that Bright took in a top-down Jeep, circling the campus that he has so powerfully shaped.

Early College alumni shave years off academic timetable to earn doctorates

In May 2016, Lindsey Turner and Smikal Patel graduated from Lenoir County Early College High School. Last month – four years later – they graduated from their respective colleges of pharmacy with doctorate degrees, having used their intellect and the “backbone” they developed in high school to shave years off the usual academic timetable and launch them into the careers they’d dreamed of as teenagers.

LCC awarded literacy grant

Lenoir Community College recently was awarded a $10,000 grant through the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to support LCC and the Greene County Family Literacy Program for the 2020-2021 school year. The amount of the grant is the maximum allocation for the category.