Pinnacle archery students offered more than $1 million in scholarships
Special to The Star
Four seniors at Pinnacle Classical Academy were offered a combined $1.3 million in four-year archery scholarships by all the colleges and universities to which they were accepted.
Morgan Bussert has signed with University of the Cumberlands, Kate Miller and Landon Standish have signed with Union College (Kentucky), and Olivia Poston has signed with Lindsey Wilson College. We are incredibly grateful for the work of Todd Tongel, our archery coach, who has built one of the best scholastic archery programs in the nation, said Dr. Shelly Bullard, the school s headmaster.
Looking back at a year of learning in a pandemic
It’s been a year since Gov. Roy Cooper announced school districts around the state would close due to the rising threat of a national health pandemic. What was originally pitched as a two-week precautionary measure turned into an evolution of instruction that is working its way back to normalcy.
Amidst a year of ever-shifting guidelines, conflicting advice from experts and near endless political spin, educators and child care professionals have gritted their teeth and powered through it all to continue plying their craft.
“At the beginning I think a lot of us had the opportunity to be bitter and to be upset about it. But what this has made me realize is there is really no set way that anything is supposed to be,” said Charlcy Carpenter, a math teacher at Burns Middle School. “If anything, it has shown me how resilient kids can be. They have adjusted and have kept on rolling. Of course, a lot of times I miss what was and wh
Take a look outside of each Cleveland County School this week and one thing will be abundantly clear - heroes work there.
Local artist known for painting spirit rocks outside local school, Darrell Endicott said he was commissioned by two anonymous individuals to paint murals dedicated to the teachers and staff at all Cleveland County elementary, middle and high schools. In the same way you might see Heroes work here signs out front of a nursing home, dentist office, daycare; it s the same idea behind it. I just tweaked it a little bit, said Endicott.
Over the last week Endicott has been making his way to all 30 county schools, plastering the large mural rocks at each with images of Superman, Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and even Super Grover at each. All look a little different but bear the Heroes Work Here tagline.