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Angie Berrier was named graduation coach at North Asheboro Middle School and Northeast Randolph Middle School for Communities In Schools of Randolph County. She will manage a caseload of 30-plus students in small group mentoring settings.
HIGH POINT – Riding the school bus is probably the safest way for students to get to school, but it’s a little more expensive and other rides may be illegal. So far this year, school officials could save as much as $1 million from a revised tiered bus schedule. There could be more savings, however, by hiring vendors or providing student passes for city buses. GCS
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Deaths per 1 million passenger miles: • Passenger Cars 0.94 • Scheduled Airlines 0.06 • Passenger Trains 0.04 • School Buses 0.01
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HIGH HONOR: Southwest Guilford’s new gym may be named for hall-of-fame coach. 1B
VICTIM OF THE ECONOMY Thomasville ABC Board closes National Highway branch BY CHANEL DAVIS ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
THOMASVILLE – The recent economy has hit several businesses hard, and ABC stores are no different. Thomasville ABC Board closed the doors of its National Highway location on Sept. 17, citing that the store was not bringing enough money to keep that particular location open. The only other ABC store in Thomasville, at 1033 Randolph St., will now be the new home of the ABC board. “Throughout the last several years, we have been able to see that the traffic has moved to the other end of town,” said Leigh Ann Lowe, general manager and board member. “We have seen a noticeable shift in our sales coming to the
Randolph Street location. It just made common sense to come down to this location. There is more traffic with the Walmart, gas stations and more restaurants on this side of town.” The retail sales at the National Highway location had flattened and mixed beverage sales had decreased. The board was spending $3,600 a month and $43,200 a year to lease the site. With the sales decrease and other businesses in the area shutting down, it was easy to make a decision, Lowe said. “What we have been doing for awhile has been to take the expenses into consideration compared to our revenues,” Lowe said. “Even if we lost some of the revenues, with the expenses that we cut we would still come out better with one location.” The ABC board returned its 3 percent distribution of $57,000 to the city at the end of the last fiscal year. The return to the city won’t be as much with the closing of National Highway store. “The amount that they get is based off of our sales,” Lowe said. “The amount
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does fluctuate. The return will not be half, but we knew we would lose some of the sales. In May, we projected that we would lose about 20 percent of the sales. The amount the city gets will decrease somewhat just because the amount of our sales will decrease.” Lowe said she does not think the business will suffer because of the move and
GUILFORD COUNTY – Paying for more new county school district buildings and improvements could be a distant dream in a stagnant economy. For now, the Guilford County Board of Education is working to finish projects on a $457 million list voters approved in 2008. Another $1.2 billion of needs, outlined in a 10-year Facilities Master Plan, may be too much for voters and taxpayers to swallow. “Our needs continue to grow,” Andy LaRowe, district chief of
operations, told school board members during a retreat last month. “Because the economy may be bad, a lot of Guilford County people do Schools 10-year not want to Master Plan talk about it ■■■ now.” V o t e r s have approved three construction bond programs totaling $957 million since 2000. “We have more construction on the ground now than ever before,” LaRowe said. “We have met capacity needs, but now we need to look at school renovations in High Point and Greensboro.”
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Thomasville’s one remaining ABC store is located at 1033 Randolph St. in Southgate Shopping Center. that customers from that area willingly will travel to the Randolph Street store. “We are going to miss out on some customers, but there are a lot of loyal customers that will come to this location. We have seen customers from that area come to the Randolph Street location,” Lowe said. “A lot of our mixed-beverage customers are down this way
because of the restaurants. I feel that we will have an opportunity here (Randolph Street) to pick up more traffic than normal.” Lowe said it will take to the end of October or November to see how closing the National Highway location has truly impacted them. cdavis@hpe.com | 888-3657
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Tiffany Roach (left) and Janea Lyles look at this piece of quartz. The two sixth-graders from Penn-Griffin School for the Arts participated in a two-day geology course taught at Piedmont Environmental Center last week. During the course, students learn about fossils and different types of rocks.
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“We need to prioritize these new projects,” said board member Darlene Garrett. “We can’t put all of them on hold until there is another bond referendum.” Other funding sources include contributions from county government and federal financing. But county funding for maintenance and repairs has dropped in recent years from $11.5 million in 2004 to $3.2 million in 2010. The district spent $2.5 million, most of its available funding in 2010, to complete emergency roof replacements at T.W. Andrews High School and Shadybrook Elementary School. The district will spend $16.8 million from the Qualified School Construction Bonds program on basic repairs ranging from roofs to heating and air conditioning upgrades.
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SUNDAY: High Point schools in need of repair TODAY: The funding challenge “We may have even more roofs to address,” Gerald Greeson, district maintenance director, later told the school board. “We have another list in the works.” The district staff will spend much of the winter seeking contractors for summer repairs to be financed by the federal bonds. “And if more water (money) is added to that trough, we will go for it,” said Sharon Ozment, district chief financial officer. dnivens@hpe.com | 888-3626
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