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Regional Briefs: Principals are hired for three schools
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Published: July 10, 2009
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education hired principals yesterday for North Hills and Old Town elementary schools and for North Forsyth High School.
Karen Morning-Cain will be the principal at North Hills, school officials said. Angela Choplin will be the principal at Old Town, and David Burleson will be the principal at North Forsyth.
Morning-Cain worked for two years as the principal of Shepherd Elementary School in Mooresville. She replaces Nathaniel Barber, who became principal of Carver High School in June.
Choplin has worked as principal of Fall Creek Elementary School in East Bend since 2001. She replaces Vicki Stevens, who became principal of Union Cross Elementary earlier this year.
Burleson, a former superintendent of the Burke County Schools, will replace Ron Jessup, who is retiring.
Incumbents file for re-election to town council in Lewisville
Larry Sowers filed for re-election yesterday to one of six seats up for election on the Lewisville Town Council.
Sowers, 65, a retired employee of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., is running for his fourth term on the council.
Tom Lawson, a former mayor, is running for his second term on the council. Fred W. Franklin, a former council member who waged an unsuccessful write-in campaign in 2007, also is running for a council seat.
Dan Pugh is running for his second term as mayor of Lewisville.
Council members and the mayor serve two-year terms.
N.C. House committee approves fix for coastal-insurance program
RALEIGH -- A state House committee examining a fix for an underfunded coastal-insurance program has rejected a bid to keep the current coverage maximum at $1.5 million a home.
The House Finance Committee yesterday approved a complex, multi-level patch on the Beach Plan, a vital insurance provider for homes in 18 coastal counties.
The Beach Plan has promised insurance coverage to properties valued at nearly $74 billion, but its resources top out at about $2.4 billion. Beyond that, the reform bill would turn to all of the state's property owners to pay claims.
Legislators are considering capping how much insurers would be assessed after a bad hurricane, and shifting the remaining rebuilding costs to all North Carolina policyholders.
Legislation to improve fireworks' handling is expected next week
RALEIGH -- The General Assembly soon will consider changing the law after a Fourth of July fireworks explosion on the Outer Banks that left four workers dead.
Senate leader Marc Basnight's office said late yesterday that legislation will be unveiled next week that is designed to improve safety standards for the handling and transport of large amounts of fireworks.
The bill is still being drafted, but it would make clear who can handle the pyrotechnics, and would direct the state fire marshal to provide oversight.
Basnight's office said that current law says that "experts" are responsible for the fireworks but provides no details on what constitutes an expert.
Workers for a South Carolina company unloading fireworks from a truck at an Ocracoke Island marina died after a single blast. A fifth worker survived.
Map of broadband Internet access is unveiled for North Carolina
RALEIGH -- North Carolina consumers are getting a glimpse at how much of the state has broadband Internet access and where people are stuck with slower dial-up service.
A legislative panel that has looked for ways to expand high-speed Internet access into rural areas unveiled a map yesterday showing that broadband service is available to 92 percent of the state's households.
About 240,000 households primarily in rural parts of Eastern North Carolina lag behind for a service increasingly considered as necessary for business and education.
The broadband availability map also is a condition for landing part of the $7.4 billion in federal stimulus funds that states can claim to expand the service. The map is on the Web site www.connectnorthcarolina.org.
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