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The Sanford Herald WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010
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BOARD OF EDUCATION
QUICKREAD NUCLEAR SUMMIT
Budget to be cut by $4.5M Superintendent calls cuts ‘tremendous;’ school personnel cuts likely By CAITLIN MULLEN cmullen@sanfordherald.com
OBAMA: NUCLEAR THREAT ON THE RISE
President Barack Obama told assembled leaders at the 47country Nuclear Security Summit Tuesday the risk of nuclear attack — not by an enemy nation, but from terrorists — was on the rise despite the end of the Cold War
SANFORD — Superintendent Jeff Moss informed the Lee County Board of Education Tuesday that the district will face a $4.5 million reduction for the 2011-12 school year
due loss of revenue at the state level. “We have some challenges that will be facing us over the next few years in public education,” Moss said at the meeting in the Commissioners’ Room of the Lee County Government Center. “During the school year
11-12, the state will actually face a $1 billion shortfall for public schools. That is the year that stimulus dollars go away.” The North Carolina General Assembly had no other choice but to cut funding and leave the districts to handle it, he said.
LCHS MUSICAL: ‘ANYTHING GOES’
Achoo! Pollen brings misery
NATION
By NEIL OFFEN
STATES TURN TO NURSES AS DR. SHORTAGE LOOMS
Durham Herald-Sun
With a looming shortage of primary care doctors, 28 states are considering expanding the authority of nurse practitioners. These nurses with advanced degrees want the right to practice without a doctor’s watchful eye and to prescribe narcotics. And if they hold a doctorate, they want to be called “Doctor.”
Lee County High School students will perform “Anything Goes,” a Cole Porter musical about cruiseship hijinks, at 7 p.m. starting today in the McLeod Auditorium. Admission is $5. (ABOVE) The cast and (LEFT) Zachary Francis, Ravenne Escobar, and Jonas Nielsen rehearse scenes from the musical on Tuesday at the school’s auditorium.
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STATE
MUSLIMS FEARFUL OF RETURNING CENSUS
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See Budget, Page 6A
ALLERGIES
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Nine years of scrutiny have made some American Muslims wary of the federal government, and that has the U.S. Census bureau working to make sure its crucial survey doesn’t become a casualty of fear
The reduction will amount to almost $4.5 million for Lee County, which Moss called “a tremendous amount of money to begin cutting from our budget.”
ASHLEY GARNER/ The Sanford Herald
DURHAM — Yes, it’s the sound of spring around here. The color of spring, of course, is green and yellow — the tint of tree pollen that’s been inundating the area for the last couple of weeks. Local physicians report that visits to allergy clinics are way up — at the Duke Asthma, Allergy, and Airway Center, for instance, a 20-percent increase. How can you avoid a clinic visit and what can you do about those sneezes, the watery eyes, the itching, the labored breathing and the rest of the allergic reactions caused by the highest pollen levels since air quality agencies started measuring the stuff? Local experts have some suggestions. “With any allergy, the No. 1 thing you can do is avoid the allergic triggers,” said Maya
See Pollen, Page 7A
ELECTION 2010: DISTRICT 4 COMMISSIONER PRIMARY
Womack wants to be board’s ‘voice of sanity’ Candidate one of two Republicans squaring off in primary on May 4
WORLD POLAND GRIEVES AS LEADERS LIE IN STATE Thousands of grieving mourners tossed flowers at a slow-moving hearse or joined an enormous viewing line at the presidential palace to pay their respects Tuesday to Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife as their bodies lay in state Page 16A
TO INFORM, CHALLENGE AND CELEBRATE
Vol. 80, No. 86 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Twenty years ago, Jim Womack was tracking Soviet threats for U.S. intelligence at the Pentagon. Today, Womack is running for the Lee County Board of Commissioners. “Totally different and totally similar,” Womack said Tuesday. How is it similar? “It’s about management style and principled leadership,” he said. “It’s about telling people the truth and not just
HAPPENING TODAY n Sanford Jobseekers will meet at First Baptist Church from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. All those who are searching for a job are welcome to attend this community-based support group. This week’s program: “Working Together To Build a Community Garden in Hard Economic Times.”
UPCOMING n The Herald will feature GOP Commissioner primary candidate Tamara Brogan in Thursday’s edition. n School board profiles will begin Sunday, starting with (in alphabetical order) candidate Mark Akinosho.
what they want to hear.” Womack, a Sanford resident since 1999, is one of two
See Womack, Page 7A
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Jim Womack is one of two candidates seeking the Republican nomination for Lee County Commissioners, District 4.
High: 66 Low: 46
INDEX
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OBITUARIES
R.V. HIGHT
Sanford: Irma McLeod, 70 Cameron: Ivan Hall, 82 Carthage: Ernest Greene, 65 Southern Pines: Dorothy Curley, 94
Hight traveled to Chapel Hill on Sunday to watch a dear friend receive an honor
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