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The North Carolina Schools Go Outside (GO) Grant was created to address the main barrier to getting kids outside during the school day – funding. Field trips and outdoor experiences offer students opportunities to explore and learn in hands-on environments. With limited dollars available from our local school systems, such engaging and active styles of learning are becoming things of the past.
The Davidson County Democratic Party is hosting a Sip & Paint Fundraiser on Saturday August
27, 2022, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm at the home of Tonya Lanier and Robert Freeman.
The Davidson County Public Library will be hosting a new, five-part discussion series at the Davidson County Historical Museum in Lexington for Fall/Winter 2022. The program will occur on the Third Thursday of each month, from 2:30 PM-3:30 PM.
National Night Out is recognized on the first Tuesday in August. It’s an event that brings awareness and enhances the relationships between community and law enforcement.
Lexington City Schools District Athletic Director, Ronnie Beverly, has submitted his two week resignation to the system. When contacted by Davidson Local, Beverly shared he had prepared a statement regarding his upcoming departure.
We’re excited to introduce our first, fast and funny evening of culture, food and conversation with chef Michael Morefield @ Roots On Main in Lexington. Press Pass dinners are a new way to support local news.
Longtime Davidson-Davie trustees Dr. Barbara Leonard and Thom Hege bid farewell to their fellow Board members on July 12 as the Board also welcomed returning and new members Tonya Lanier, Neal Foster, Cathi Smith, and Dr. Kevin Speight.
Step right up to our first annual Back to School Carnival! Children and teens will have a blast and can enjoy activities like face painting, carnival booth games, making giant bubbles, eating popcorn, and playing cornhole. The list goes on, and your family can enjoy taking silly pictures at the photo stations, playing a game of life-sized Angry Birds, and cashing in your free tickets for prizes of crisp, new school supplies.
Lexington City Schools rescinds clear backpack policy.
Race Against Drugs is a movement that was created to help people get out of addictions
Photo highlights of the Bicentennial Play “PiGS, CHAiRS and Small Town Squares”
Be a part of this milestone celebration!
Board of Elections meeting to decide how voting will look this fall
LCS scholars have done an amazing job of getting into some of the best universities in the state.
Pamela Kelly writes “Souls to the Polls! Anyone growing up in North Carolina knows that term. I was not raised here and although I understood on the surface what Souls to the Polls was, I didn’t really understand how important it was to the Black Community. My understanding is the congregations of Black Churches would gather in a group after services and go together in church vans to vote on Sunday. To an outsider this seemed convenient and a powerful community exercise to get out the vote. My outsider’s view might be accurate in part but is far from the whole story.”
Complete history of Davidson County, last shows today and tomorrow
La unidad móvil de Novant Health Breast Center estará en Lexington ¿Necesitas una cita?
Ever seen Astroturf being laid? If not, check out this video.
It was late 2021 when Socarras was named Miss Lexington’s Outstanding Teen 2022. Her passion and social impact initiative, another term for a platform in the Miss America system, is Share a Spare, which emphasizes kidney disease. As an ambassador of the National Kidney Foundation of North Carolina, Socarras has attended meetings with nephrologists, kidney disease patients, recipients of kidney implants and kidney donors; it’s all a way to learn more about kidney disease and how to spread awareness about it.
