Track and field: Boette sweeps sprints, becomes first WLC runner to win state title
Wilton-Lyndeborough’s Sam Boette crosses the finish line to win the 100M dash at the NHIAA DIvision III track and field championships at Gilford High School on Tuesday. Staff photo by Ben Conant
Conant, Mascenic and Wilton-Lyndeborough competed at the NHIAA DIvision III track and field championships at Gilford High School on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Staff photo by Ben Conant
Conant, Mascenic and Wilton-Lyndeborough competed at the NHIAA DIvision III track and field championships at Gilford High School on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Staff photo by Ben Conant
Mascenic’s Amelia Smith takes the baton from older sister Victoria during the 4x800M relay. Staff photo by Ben Conant
WUNC In this May 2020 file photo, police officers in riot gear face a line of kneeling protesters in downtown Raleigh.
Two bills one in the state House, the other in the Senate would stiffen penalties for damaging property or injuring others during a riot. The bills come as North Carolinians continue to protest police violence toward Black individuals.
Taari Coleman felt a palpable sense of unity when she joined a large group of people in Raleigh last May to protest the police killing of George Floyd. Like really empowered,” she said. “Connected to all the people around me, in a way that you hadn t really felt connected in a little while because we had all been so online and so isolated and so far from each other.”
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Buc Day s carnival helps relieve pandemic stress
Attendees happy after last year s closure
Buc Day s carnival helps relieve pandemic stress
and last updated 2021-05-08 23:44:39-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â May is Mental Health Awareness Month and some people may have felt stressed or anxious due to having to stay indoors because of the pandemic. Now people are able to go out to public events like the Buc Days carnival.
The CDC reports that anxiety and depression due to the pandemic have gone up at least 5%.
Things like getting together with friends at the carnival was non-existent last year and for some first-time carnival attendees like Victoria Smith, last year s quarantine was difficult because she was pregnant, so seeing her daughter make new friends at the carnival is giving her a sense of normalcy.
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Subscriber only A Mackay beauty salon owner facing serious drug charges has been granted bail after a magistrate found there was nothing to suggest what her role was in any alleged enterprise. Chloe Victoria Smith and Liam Michael Dunworth were allegedly found in a locked bedroom of a Rural View home with a significant amount of ice and cash, a court heard. Police raided the property on April 29 and allegedly found more than $15,345 and 10.99 grams of methylamphetamines. Both Ms Smith and Mr Dunworth have been charged with aggravated drug possession and possessing cash allegedly from drug sales. Mackay Magistrates Court heard when police executed a search warrant at the Cooper Court home where Ms Smith lived, she and Mr Dunworth were located in the main bedroom of the dwelling with the door locked .