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the annual water festival parade party is a big family and friends reunion at the office of tupper, grimsley and dean, pages 10-11
The Island News covering northern beaufort county
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Superintendent to retire from Beaufort
july 26 - august 1, 2012
WHAT’S INSIDE?
Valerie Truesdale will assume leadership role at school system in North Carolina
Valerie Truesdale
After five years as superintendent of the Beaufort County School District, Valerie Truesdale has announced that she plans to retire from her position. She has accepted an offer from the 140,000-student CharlotteMecklenburg school system to oversee its technology programs.
After announcing her retirement from Beaufort County last week, Truesdale interviewed for the North Carolina position on Monday. Her appointment was announced Tuesday night after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted its approval, and she will begin work in October.
Her new job will place her closer to her family, a major reason she cited last week for her retirement. Two of her three children, and two of her grandchildren, live in the Charlotte area and will be attending public schools there. TRUESDALE continued on page 20
wateR FESTIVAL
looking back on a final fun weekend
NEWS
Seized computers to help teens at AMIkids Beaufort see page 3
FOOD
Lunch Bunch enjoys Water Festival’s Lowcountry Supper. see page 14
PROFILE
Matthew Pieper raises the bar on local hospitality. see page 18 ABOVE: Enthusiastic fans walk on Bay Street at the Water Festival Grand Parade on Saturday. TOP RIGHT: The Beaufort/Jasper Comp. Health team races down Bay Street to the finish line last Friday afternoon during the annual Beaufort Water Festival Bed Race. RIGHT: Beaufort city leaders, including Mayor Billy Keyserling (waving ) and Donnie Beer (holding the umbrella), ride in the parade. see more photos by bob sofaly, page 12
Virtual Summer School
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the case of virtual summer school, each Boys & Girls Club in Beaufort County — Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head Island and Sheldon — offers Compass Learning thanks to a partnership with the Beaufort County School District. “This partnership with the school district has helped even the academic playing field for our club members, for different parts of the county and for clubs that have fewer resources,” Chris Protz, executive director for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry, said. Club members at the Boys & Girls Club of Sheldon are in a oneroom building that is owned by Beaufort County. Protz said the partnership with the school district included loaning 14 computers to the Sheldon club. Without the use of these computers, Protz said, the Sheldon club would not have the resources to offer the program. Xzavier Bryan, 12, works on the computer at the Sheldon VIRTUAL continued on page 3
Boys & Girls Club. For Xzavier, 50 hours of class work are just another part of his summer.
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