KANNAPOLIS â After missing out on Senior Signing Day in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students, staff members and parents were excited to celebrate their graduates and their future plans in front of the entire class in the Performing Arts Center at A.L. Brown High School on Tuesday.
âWhen you go virtual, everything gets taken away from them and they donât get to celebrate these opportunities,â said A.L. Brown Assistant Principal Sara Newell. âSo just having them here today where they can celebrate each other ⦠itâs just that honor for them, and I think itâs important to remind them that weâre proud of them.â
However, within minutes, he was appointed to fill another vacant seat on the board.
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Piccolo, who has served on the city commission for 10 years, had actually been defeated in the November general election when he finished fifth in the race for the four available spots. His current term would have expired Dec. 31.
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But then a vacancy occurred following the death of Commissioner Larry Mott on Nov. 17, after he had already been reelected.
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Mott, a board member for 13 years, had been the top vote getter in the general election garnering 1,942 votes. Piccolo was edged out for the final seat by newcomer Daniel Wernick by just 38 votes, 1,444 to 1,406.