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Would a parent really want to have a birthday party there?... Will we get value from the money we’d spend to renovate the interior? I question all the assumptions about how used the building would be.” Jim Kinneman, Oak Ridge council member
Preservation at what cost?
File photo/NWO
Included in Oak Ridge’s proposed budget for the new fiscal year beginning July 1 is $455,000 for the renovation and expansion of this 1930s-era farmhouse in Oak Ridge Town Park, at the corner of Lisa Drive and Linvlle Road. (See story on p. 8)
IN THIS ISSUE
Bits & Pieces .................................... 17
Summerfield budget shrinks .......... 2 News in brief...................................... 3 Your Questions ................................. 4 Welcome to Our New Advertiser ... 6 Stokesdale Town Council, part 2...10 Obituaries ........................................ 12 Pets & Critters .................................. 13 Save our monarchs!
Community Calendar .................. 22 Scenes from Senior Walk Photo courtesy of Bonnie Trahan
Photo by Annette Joyce/NWO
Crime/Incident Report .................. 18
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NWHS senior accomplishments ..30 Grins and Gripes ............................ 32 Letters/Opinions .............................34 Classifieds ....................................... 35
(and their very hungry caterpillars) ....... 14
Index of Advertisers ....................... 39
NWO Kids’ Korner ..................... 16, 28
NWO On The Go .............................40
I’m not for preservation at any cost. I’m for the balance that preservation provides. You balance new uses for historic properties with the desirable outcome of preserving the unique beauty and making them useful.” Ann Schneider, Oak Ridge mayor
Is ‘Salvage the Bones’ too sexually explicit for teens?
The debate over whether college-bound Northern High School students should read about sexual encounters in an award-winning novel sparks divisive views and catches fire on social media by CHRIS BURRITT GREENSBORO – An advisory committee of Northern High School teachers, parents and a student voted overwhelmingly last week to retain a novel with sexually graphic scenes as an optional assigned reading book for AP literature students. The 12-1 vote by the school’s media and technology advisory committee last Thursday, May 26, paused but didn’t end the debate over whether Jesmyn
Ward’s “Salvage the Bones” is an appropriate selection for college-bound 11th and 12th graders. Elena Wachendorfer, one of two NHS parents seeking the book’s removal from the reading list, said she and Kimberly Magnussen plan to appeal the committee’s decision to a Guilford County Schools’ district-wide committee. Wachendorfer said she had
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