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Citizens express consolidation concerns
WISE — Two school consolidation opponents asked Monday night that if the county school board intends to go through with consolidation, to at least provide more information about what’s being pla...
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Board pledges aggressive consolidation schedule
WISE — A team of firms could be hired to design and build new county high schools as soon as this month. Monday night, the school board spent more than two hours behind closed doors examining de...
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Consolidation: What’s in it for Norton?
by JODI DEAL - Staff Writer
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WISE — Right now, things are going pretty well for Norton schools, school board member Tim Cassell pointed out during a school consolidation-related meeting between city and county officials. Stud...
Teacher contract trims decried as unfair
by JODI DEAL - Staff Writer
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WISE — One of the ways top county school administrators proposed offsetting $4.5 million in state budget cuts involved trimming “extended contracts” certain school employees have traditionally held...
School budget still in holding pattern
by JODI DEAL - Staff Writer
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WISE — It’s clear that county schools will lose $4.5 million in state funding in the coming year, and could lose anywhere from $500,000 to $2.2 million more. Other than that, not much is certain, ...
County school board sets last day of school
by JODI DEAL - Staff Writer
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WISE — County school officials have scrapped a plan that would make up for snow days with a series of Saturday school sessions and opted instead to make up the time by hours and minutes. Monday ni...
Senate trims fees in budget overture
by BOB LEWIS & DENA POTTER - Associated Press Writers
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RICHMOND (AP) — Senate budget negotiators trimmed their proposed $51 million increase in court filing fees Tuesday by nearly one-fourth in an incremental step aimed at jump-starting state budget ta...
Briefs March 12, 2010
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Basketball team gets 'red carpet' NORTON — With Burton High School's girls' basketball team undefeated and ranked No. 1 in Virginia, Principal Rocky Baker Monday briefed Norton School Board on act...
50 Years Ago: March 10, 1960
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- The number of rabies cases in Wise County continued to rise. A gray fox killed in Powell Valley had been confirmed as rabid, bringing the total number of cases reported in 1960 to 16. Health offi...