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August 18, 2020 No Responses

Third COVID-19 infection IDed on WCPS campus. This time, students were there.

For the third time in less than a week, an individual who has tested positive for COVID-19 has been traced to a Wayne County Public Schools campus. This time, however, the district publicly acknowledged the exposure and notified the community...

August 15, 2020 No Responses

Carver Elementary staff notified of exposure to person with COVID

For the second time in 24 hours, staff members at a Wayne County elementary school have been notified of exposure to a person who has tested positive for COVID-19. In an email obtained by the New Old North, Carver Elementary...

August 14, 2020 5 Responses

Lawsuit: Maxwell Foods says Chinese-owned Smithfield breached contract, trying to run company out of hog business

Several days after confirming it was shutting down its hog production arm, Goldsboro Milling Co., Maxwell Foods, LLC, filed a lawsuit against pork giant Smithfield Foods Inc. — claiming that the Chinese-owned company is “unlawfully running Maxwell out of t...

August 13, 2020 5 Responses

“Individual” with COVID was on Meadow Lane campus Thursday

Meadow Lane Elementary School staff have been notified that they might have been exposed to COVID-19 on campus. Principal Wendy Hooks sent an email to MLE staff Thursday after many of them had left for the day, advising them of...

August 12, 2020 No Responses

Wings Over Wayne pushed back to 2022

There will not be a Wings Over Wayne Air Show in 2021. In a Facebook message posted this morning, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base officials said they would be pushing the event back to 2022, blamed the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic...

August 7, 2020 13 Responses

Breaking News: Goldsboro Milling shutting down its hog operation

Goldsboro Milling Company — a subsidiary of Maxwell Foods — which, earlier this decade, was recognized as one of the biggest swine producers in the United States, is ending its hog operation. The news was confirmed by the company Friday...

August 7, 2020 No Responses

Former Faith Christian teacher charged with sexually assaulting two 11-year-old students in mid-1990s

A former Faith Christian Academy teacher turned himself in to authorities today after the Goldsboro Police Department secured warrants for his arrest in connection with the alleged sexual assault of two then-11-year-old students in the mid-1990s. Anthony Warre...

August 6, 2020 2 Responses

WCPS does not have enough computers for an effective September Plan B restart

Wayne County Public Schools will not have enough devices to meet the needs of the 7,000 students who have signed up for the district’s state-mandated Virtual Academy and the 10,000 others who are set to return under the state’s Plan...

August 5, 2020 12 Responses

West, Strickland spar over how long WCPS should stay in Plan C before 4-2 vote to begin school with 3 weeks of remote instruction

With 7,000 students enrolled in Wayne County Public Schools’ state-mandated Virtual Academy, the district does not have enough devices to facilitate all-remote instruction and the Plan B school reopening model at the same time — and won’t until at least....

August 5, 2020 4 Responses

District will start in Plan C

A lack of devices for students and insufficient training time for staff were among the factors that led the Wayne County Board of Education to vote to begin the WCPS school year in Plan C — or all remote learning...

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