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Brevard College is the only higher education institution in the Asheville area that will require the COVID-19 vaccination for all staff and students this fall.
With a fully vaccinated on-campus population, the liberal arts school with a student body of about 700 will no longer require masks or social distancing during the fall semester.
“We decided to require the vaccine because we wanted to be able to provide our students with the experience that sold them on Brevard to begin with, and that’s an in-person, without masks, without social distancing experience,” said Debbie D Anna, Brevard College vice president for student success and dean of students. “The only way to ensure that we are able to do that is to require vaccines.”
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ASHEVILLE - Buncombe County will build a $5 million training facility to prepare hundreds of workers for a Pratt & Whitney airplane engine parts factory, now under construction in the Bent Creek area.
The county s Board of Commissioners voted unanimously May 18 to fund the construction despite protests by some members of the public who said the company, a subsidiary of Raytheon, is a war profiteer.
The facility will be financed and paid for through sales tax designated for the capital needs of A-B Tech. The community college will handle the training for the company expected to finish construction on the $650 million 1.2 million square foot plant and start production in earnest by the second half of 2022.
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Megan Sales of Hendersonville Middle has been named the 2020-21 School Nurse of the Year for Henderson County Public Schools.
All school nurses were honored by the school district on National School Nurse Day Wednesday for the role they play in keeping students and staff safe.
Sales was nominated by her peers for the care she provides every day for her students and school, the Henderson County Health Department said in a news release.
“To be given the title of School Nurse of the Year truly is an honor after this challenging year during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Sales said in the release. “I believe we have an amazing team of school nurses who embody the definition of this title each time they step on their own school campus. I am proud to be a Henderson County school nurse.”
Henderson County (May 13, 2021) - School nurses were honored by Henderson County Public Schools on National School Nurse Day Wednesday for the role they play in keeping students and staff safe.