Harmony Campbell of Vanceboro has been selected Lenoir Community College’s Academic Excellence Award recipient for 2022 and is recognized as one of the Great 58 in the North Carolina Community College System.
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GEC Teacher achieves a first
Greene Early College 2017 alumni, Shontia Blount, marks a first in GEC’s history; she returned to her alma mater to join the teaching staff. After graduating from GEC and LCC with her Associate’s in 2017, Ms. Blount completed her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Fayetteville State University in 2020. Returning to GEC, she began her teaching career.
Announcement: $500.00 scholarship opportunity
Calling all Lenoir County High School Seniors: Heading to college or the workforce? Here's an opportunity to share with the community how you can help Lenoir County through service.
Student named LCC's Dallas Herring award recipient
Lenoir Community College student Jazmyne Pearson of Kinston has been named Lenoir Community College’s Dallas Herring Award recipient for 2022. The Dallas Herring Award was established by the North Carolina Community College System to honor the late Dr. Dallas Herring, one of the state’s earliest advocates of community colleges. The award is bestowed annually upon a student who best embodies Dr. Herring’s philosophy of “taking people where they are and carrying them as far as they can go.”
Retired teachers turn tutors to help students catch up
Not long after the luncheon celebrating Twanna Fisher Warren’s retirement from the classroom, her principal at Northeast Elementary School began talking to her about coming back to work part-time as a special kind of tutor.
GEC Alumni Continues Education Pursuits
Makayla Parks, a 2017 Greene Early College graduate, has reached another academic milestone in her life’s journey. Completing her four- year degree from NCA&T of Greensboro in 2020, she enrolled in East Carolina’s school counseling education master’s program
LCC SGA President named LCC's Governor Robert Scott Leadership Award recipient
Lenoir Community College Student Government Association President Kaley Smith of Farmville has been named the Governor Robert Scott Leadership Award recipient, one of the Great 58 in the North Carolina Community College System.
Public Notice: House Auction by South Lenoir High School Carpentry Program on Saturday, May 21 at 9:00 am
House Auction by South Lenoir High School Carpentry Program on Saturday, May 21 at 9:00 am. The house can be viewed by appointment at South Lenoir High School, 3355 Old Hwy. 11, Deep Run. Contact Mr. Frank Emory at 252-568-6161 or cell 252-560-3025.
LCPS educators among first in state to complete Rethink Education training
Seven LCPS educators whose work helps ensure the quality of the district’s standard-setting digital learning initiative have earned their Rethink Education Facilitator Badge from the N.C. Department of Instruction as members of the initial cohort trained to become experts in how to use new statewide blended learning models that add online learning to existing classroom teaching.
ECU partners with GCHS to provide paid internships for electrical trade students
East Carolina University (ECU) and Greene Central High School (GCHS) have partnered to provide opportunities for students currently pursuing a career in the electrical field. Interviews for an internship with ECU were held at GCHS.
Kailey Powell awarded Arts & Sciences Laptop Scholarship
The Arts & Sciences Laptop Scholarship Committee awards a laptop each year to a deserving student who has been nominated by the department for their scholastic achievement and accomplishments during their time at LCC.
For more than three decades, Parrott Academy first graders have honored their moms with a special Mother’s Day Tea.
LCC holds 60th Commencement
It was a night of cheers and tears of joy as more than 300 graduates walked the stage at Lenoir Community College to receives degrees in the College’s Sixtieth Annual Commencement in the Student Center.
Public Notice: House Auction by South Lenoir High School Carpentry Program on Saturday, May 21 at 9:00 am
House Auction by South Lenoir High School Carpentry Program on Saturday, May 21 at 9:00 am. The house can be viewed by appointment at South Lenoir High School, 3355 Old Hwy. 11, Deep Run. Contact Mr. Frank Emory at 252-568-6161 or cell 252-560-3025.
Early College seniors ride a string of accomplishments to graduation
Forty-four seniors who amassed more than $1 million in scholarship money and earned a trove of academic honors during a high school career fractured by hurricanes, floods and the coronavirus pandemic received well-deserved praise for keeping their eye on the prize they were awarded Wednesday night at commencement exercises for Lenoir County Early College High School.
LCC Holds Health Sciences and Nursing Pinning Ceremony
Lenoir Community College Health Sciences and Nursing Department recently held its pinning ceremony for Electroneurodiagnostic Technology, Medical Assisting, Polysomnography, Radiography, and Associate Degree Nursing graduates.
LCPS Cafeteria worker named SNA Employee of Year for southeastern US
Annie Davis, the assistant cafeteria manager at Northwest Elementary School who went the extra mile to cover staffing shortages at other LCPS schools during the pandemic, has been named the 2022 Southeast Region Employee of the Year by the School Nutrition Association.
Early College High School kicks off LCPS commencements Wednesday
Graduation season for Lenoir County Public Schools gets underway Wednesday when 44 members of the Class of 2022 at Lenoir County Early College High School receive their high school diplomas. The next night, 40 of them will be awarded associate degrees or certificates from Lenoir Community College.
LCC announces commencement speaker, Greg Lassiter
Lenoir Community College will hold its sixtieth commencement at 7 p.m. May 5 in the Student Center with Greg Lassiter as the guest speaker. Admission to the ceremony is by ticket only as seating is limited. More than 400 graduates are eligible to receive degrees.
Mike Parker: Should the state involve itself more in homeschools?
I recently read an article in the Kinston Free Press entitled “NC homeschool families have little oversight. Many want to keep it that way” by Brian Gordon of the USA Today network. One of the experts cited in the story, Duke Law Professor Jane Wettach, wrote in a 2020 report on the state’s homeschooling law: