Help wanted: Lenoir County Health Department Public Health Nurse III

The primary purpose of this position is to coordinate Family Planning, STD/HIV and Adult Health programs and to supervise the staff that are involved in these clinics. This position will schedule clinics and provide educational and assessment needs for any adult services clinic. This position will also ensure program guidelines are met and initiate changes and/or new programs in a timely manner.

Parrott students return to classrooms

With bulging bookbags, full pencil cases, and face masks, Parrott Academy students returned to classes this week, marking the start of the school’s 56th academic year. On Monday and Tuesday, lower and middle school students attended a half-day of classes, and Wednesday saw the return of 214 high school students to campus.

John Hood: CON laws are too risky

I’ve long thought the North Carolina General Assembly should reform our state’s archaic and anti-competitive requirement for certificates-of-need. In the post-COVID world we are entering, however, CON reform is no longer just a good idea. It’s an imperative.

Reece Gardner: Words of wisdom from our 40th President: Reagan

It was heartbreaking this week to see videos of hundreds of people - men, women and children - in Afghanistan risking their lives trying to get onto a U.S. jet that was moving toward takeoff Some of them continued to try to hang on even as the plane began to ascend. Now there are droves of people - Many of them Americans sleeping in orchards and opium fields, moving from house to house just trying to stay alive. Freedom is a precious commodity, and we still have it here in America, but the events in Afghanistan should remind us that we can't take this freedom for granted.