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It was reported that many of the families with students in Snowden are looking forward to the new arrangements after the closure. I’m sure it is not ideal for them but they seem positive about it.

On a side the note:
The Top Lie of the Decade:

“Our milkshake machine is down at the moment”

I mean give me a break, if they ain’t gonna make it, just take it off the menu already!

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 9:16 pm By: MW

As a patriot and a journalist /publisher, there is nothing more disgusting than a Non Patriot, Non Journalist Propagandist posing as if they have any worth as humankind.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 6:10 pm By: Stan Deatherage

This is the best political news I have heard in a long time. No more Thom Tillis! Tillis has been a major promoter of the wind and solar boondoggle for decades.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 5:13 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Conservative Voter: The thing about being elected is that one never knows what will occur, i.e., the Covid epidemic, and the resultant insanity on how it was mishandled by elected officials.

At some point there is a high water mark that results in an impasse, where politicians or the public rebel and move in one assertive direction or another. Then there is yet another avenue ...

Elect smart, experienced Good citizens that question bureaucratic orthodoxy, not because that orthodoxy is in their way, but because some folks are better at figuring stuff out than others, the smarter electorate elected those smarter politicians, and not the other way around, and everyone wins.

And then there is my tried and true adage that I believe in to my core: Good governing is NOT rocket science.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 1:32 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I hate to hear a grown man whine. It makes me real mad!

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 12:24 pm By: William Bonney

Shreve, you deserve an Academy Award for your performance in this California Cuckshow.

Maybe, at some point in the near future, you'll join Ché (Cheeseman) and his young dukebuddy prospect as they announce their sacrifice to Moloch?

Y'all can't keep this up but for so long. The wheels are coming off and you know it.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 10:19 am By: John Valley

Don, may I respectfully ask: Are there more school age students residing in Richland Township then are enrolled at Aurora, and if so where are those "extra" students enrolled and why? I note that you also do not address the bus rides this decision to close Snowden will impose on young students and what impact that will have on retaining what few students are left in BCS in that area. Finally, why has the BCS staff not worked with Nutrien to make the local school(s) more attractive to potential employees as well as their duty to contribute to community development rather than exclusively to the short-run benefit of the company? Nutrien could/should help development in southeastern Beaufort County. Do you not agree? If so, what has BCS done in partnering with them doing that? And if not, why not? How much has Cheeseman worked with Nutrien? What has BCS done is simply foster non-public school development in Richland Township. Bath should beware of the same thing happening on the north side of the river in the future. Nutrien owns alot of land near you.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 9:11 am By: Uncle Jeb

Pitty poor misunderstood Don Shreve. He is again seeking our approval for his sins. Nothing more clearly states how unqualified Don Shreve is than this article.
It is not about you Donald Shreve. You failed your most important test. Brains?

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 8:35 am By: Hood Richardson

If Shreve cannot figure out that Cheeseman is a liberal, he might want to read Cheeseman's dissertation, when he got his degree during his tenure in Beaufort County and probably paid for by Beaufort County taxpayers. In it, Cheeseman promotes the Marxist (and also racist) concept of DEI. President Trump is trying to eliminate DEI. Where do you stand, Donald Shreve?

Then there is the sort of key people he brings in. Take his out of town school board attorney, who is chairman of the Durham County Democratic Party, and who Cheeseman convinced the board to hire. The Democrat Party is generally pretty liberal but their Durham County branch has always been one of the most hard left in the state.

Like many in the education industry, Cheeseman tries to hide his politics by registering as an Unaffiliated, but it is not hard to see what he is if you look.

One litmus test on education issues that has separated the wheat from the chaff for decades has been the consolidation versus neighborhood / community schools debate. Consolidation has always been the liberal position, and neighborhood / community schools the conservative position. Cheeseman is pushing the liberal / left position and has his bootlickers on the school board bowing down to him on it.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 8:18 am By: Rino Hunter

A good start for the Beaufort County School Board to learn how to act as a real governing board is to first change:

1. Their incredibly awkward seating arrangements centered around ineffectual governing and poor communication of purpose to the People, for the People;

2. Abide by the Sunshine Law, and begin the conducting of the People's business in front of the People, in Open Session. There are only three justifications to meet in Closed Session - a. to discuss personnel issues about problem personnel, not policy; b. negotiate singular contracts, sensitive money issues, and once determined and ratified, report to the People openly; c. broad legal matters of attorney /client privilege where discussions are sensitive and must be protected until outcome established. Then these matters become the People's business;

3. Members of the School Board must make Open Session voting a priority; establish a continuity of governing by Open Session voting on initiatives to in-act better performance in managing the People's money by far better policy, and that means hammering out policy in public by the privilege of motions in Open Session.

These few, beginning suggestions, in my own thoughts and words, are just a start for a dysfunctional governing body to begin the process of becoming a real governing board.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 7:55 am By: Stan Deatherage

LOL. "Independent" as in seven Cheeseman cheerleaders. Looks to me like we've got a school board made up of seven deckchairs and two independent thinkers.

Are we supposed to believe that Snowden School was supported by the BCS Central Office? Snowden didn't even have a custodian for much of the year. He was transferred to Chocowinity.

Hum. How to proceed. Gag on this campaign year tripe or sign the petition to Save Snowden. That's a pretty easy choice for a southside resident.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 6:47 am By: Van Zant