NEWLAND â The Avery County vaccination effort continues to sweep the stateâs eligible populations, with those who are 65 and older, public school employees and now daycare workers currently eligible for the vaccine.
First doses of the Moderna vaccines are available for the aforementioned group at the Avery County Agricultural Extension at 661 Vale Road above Ingles in Newland on Friday, March 5. Those would like to receive the vaccine must make an appointment by calling the Avery County vaccine call center at (828) 733-8273. The call center is available daily from 9 to 11 a.m. Patients must bring their insurance card if they have one and wear appropriate clothing for ease of access to the upper arm. Masks are required.
NEWLAND — Perhaps it is fitting during an ongoing pandemic that the winning word for the 43rd annual and most unique Avery County Schools Spelling Bee event on record, held
We Hear You: Rebuffing Teachers Unions and Reopening Schools
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Dear Daily Signal: I just read your commentary article on teachers and their unions and the continual refusal during the COVID-19 pandemic to create a better learning environment for our young children (“Teachers Unions Are Keeping Kids Out of the Classroom. School Choice Can Ensure They Learn Anyway”). This has been a sore subject for me, because I see and hear the lack of instruction being given.
A fun and wholesome story with lessons to share: Who Stole My Keys?
February 1, 2021
Amazon bestselling author, Thornton Cline
This is the second of the 30-book series by award-winning author and Amazon best selling authors, Thornton Cline and Lacie Carpenter
A fun and wholesome story with lessons to share.”
Fort Worth, Texas book publisher, Intense Publications announces the release of “Mrs. P., Who Stole My Keys?”, the second book of the 30-book Mrs. P. series by award-winning authors, Lacie Carpenter and Thornton Cline.
In the middle grade reader book, Mrs. P. and her students return to school from their holiday break only to find more pranksters on the loose in her classroom. Mrs. P. is pranked with a hologram of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Ghost of Avery Middle School and with the mother of them all–her keys mysteriously disappear for weeks. Ella, Lennox, Stella and Austin team up to investigate and uncover the identity of the secret prankster who is const