Author: Renee Carey

Renee Carey has been an award-winning writer, editor and commentator in community newspaper markets for nearly 25 years. An Ohio native, she began her journalism career in high school, deciding then that storytelling was her calling. She honed her craft at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, earning a degree in journalism from the Honors Tutorial College. Since then, she has spent her career telling people's stories, commenting on politics and life and teaching others how to do the same — an avocation that has introduced her to thousands of people who have inspired her and taught her many lessons about integrity, courage, faith and happiness. Mrs. Carey resides in North Carolina with her husband and two dogs, Rush and Beau. You can reach her at rcarey@newoldnorth.com

December 17, 2020 5 Responses

Merrill: Staff cuts, change to stipends needed as $2.4 million WCPS deficit remains

Wayne County Public Schools will need to cut teachers’ jobs at nearly every school in the county to begin to overcome a $2.4 million budget deficit and to pay back a $2.1 million state loan, which is accruing $20,000 in...

December 14, 2020 2 Responses

Missing seals halt business at county ROD office

Wayne County residents will not be able to do official business at the county Register of Deeds office until Wednesday or Thursday at the earliest, officials said, because seals necessary to certify everything from real estate documents to birth and...

December 9, 2020 No Responses

Check your list twice, right here at home

I have been on a secret mission for the past couple of weeks. I, like all of you, have been watching the toll the pandemic has been taking on local, small businesses. Many of them are struggling to keep their...

December 7, 2020 No Responses

K-5’s return under Plan A highlights eventful BOE meeting

The Wayne County Board of Education has decided to send students in kindergarten through fifth grade back to school under Plan A — full-time face to face — come January. Board member Jennifer Strickland made the motion at the board’s...

December 3, 2020 10 Responses

Is the School Board about to make another bad decision?

Sometimes, you just can’t wait and see what is going to happen. Sometimes, you have to speak up before the deed goes down — just in case you can talk some sense into someone. And that is the case when...

November 24, 2020 No Responses

School board members want more in-person instruction for high school students

Members of the Wayne County Board of Education have asked high school principals to figure out what it would take to put more students in face-to-face learning come January. But administrators and Central Office personnel say no decision or firm...

October 9, 2020 15 Responses

WCPS to teachers: Use your children to boost lunch numbers

Financial consultant Aaron Beaulieu hinted to the Wayne County Board of Education Monday that the school district is not serving enough meals to support its Child Nutrition budget for the 2020-21 school year — and warned that WCPS did not...

October 6, 2020 3 Responses

Millions in cuts already made, but more are coming as WCPS mends budget woes

Wayne County Public Schools’ interim superintendent and a financial operations consultant have gotten the district’s 2020-21 budget in line — and come up with a preliminary 2021-22 spending plan that does not include the across-the-board reduction in for...

October 5, 2020 No Responses

Stop spinning and start planning, before it’s too late

In January 2012, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta proposed a round of military base closures, arguing that the Pentagon needed to consolidate to save money. And while Congress did not ultimately authorize the measure — the result, many believe, of politic...

October 2, 2020 No Responses

From simple beginnings to the chairman’s gavel, Ray Mayo never forgot his faith or his values

Ray Mayo was someone whose roots ran deep. He was the son of farmers — a mother and father who worked hard and taught their son to do the same. Salt of the earth. That’s what they called them. It...

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