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A racial reckoning began years ago for the Guilford (Connecticut) school system, first with an episode in which a student wore blackface makeup to a home football game and then a fraught debate over the elimination of its mascot, the Indians. After the killing of George Floyd, district leaders announced they were doubling down on efforts to address social justice and racism in schools and teaching materials. But an organized pushback in the overwhelmingly white community began last year with a petition for the superintendent’s removal. This summer, conservative activists won the GOP’s endorsement for school board, knocking out three...

GUILFORD — A contentious Republican Board of Education election centered on how race is taught in town schools resulted Tuesday in the highest primary turnout in years, an official said. The Republican newcomers who had received their party’s caucus endorsement solidified their positions on the November ballot Tuesday by sweeping the incumbents and two other candidates at the polls. Running under the slate name of “5 Reasons Why,” candidates Tim Chamberlain (1,275 votes), Nick Cusano (1,273), Aly Passarelli (1,273), Bill Maisano (1,269) and Danielle Scarpellino (1,265) earned the five Republican spots on the November ballot. Amy Sullivan (468), Joseph Golino...

The Guilford County Department of Social Services (DSS) scandal has left a mountain of questions in its wake as to how it came about, and now county officials investigating the matter are finally starting to get some answers. **SNIP** One Guilford County DSS employee told the Rhino Times this week that the problems in the department go very deep and this latest crisis is just one manifestation of those issues. “No management manages,” the employee wrote in an email. “No policy is completely followed. People are authorized benefits that are not thoroughly evaluated. Workers have to keep authorizing clients that...

Candidate Wins With Fake Nameby Scott D. Yost County Editor January 15, 2009 The man who ran in and won the Guilford County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor race in the November 2008 election did so under a fake name: "Kirk Perkins," the winning candidate, is actually a transient whose real name is Kirk Newell. Newell, who is 51 years old, may have spent time in a mental institution before running for the office under the assumed name. A background check by The Rhinoceros Times found that Kirk Perkins and Kirk Newell share more than a first name –...

A Johnson Road resident has periodically been confronted with a bag of trash deposited in her driveway and it appears crows may have helped identify a culprit. Fed up, the resident called the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department this week and reported the latest unwelcome gift. The resident reported that trash has been deposited in her driveway several times over the years... Arriving at the residence on Wednesday, Dow said he picked up a trash bag that had been dropped off and when he did so, part of a court summons fell out through a hole pecked out by crows. The...

The Greensboro Police Department said in a statement Wednesday they would have no further role in investigating a fight this month at Guilford College. Since charges were taken out at the magistrate's office and police were not called to the scene by the alleged victims, the accused or college administrators, police said the matter will have to be handled in the courts. "After careful review of this case and consultation with the Guilford County District Attorney's Office, no evidence was found at this time that would allow the Greensboro Police Department to proceed any further in this investigation," the police...

GREENSBORO — Three Guilford College students were arrested Monday in connection with a group assault on campus, according to court documents. Police said Faris Khadar, Osama Sabbah and Omar Awartani were victims of the attack. Khadar and Sabbah are Guilford College students. Awartani is an N.C. State student who was visiting friends. The documents, which were reviewed late Monday, said those arrested are accused of beating three Palestinian students with fists, feet and brass knuckles while calling them "terrorists" and using racial slurs. The documents also indicated that the attack involved "at least 15 members of the football team." The...

Guilford College Controversy Being Manipulated By CAIR January 26, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - CAIR, the Saudi funded Wahhabist pressure group is trying to whip up what appears at first blush to be an intra-student body dust-up at a Southern college, into a federal hate crime prosecution. On early Sunday morning January 21, 2007 members of the Guilford College [a Quaker institution located in Greensboro, NC] football team including Christopher Barnette, Michael Robert Six and Michael Bates were involved in a confrontation with three foreign-born students from Israel's West Bank - Farris Khader, Omar Awartani and Osama...

Guilford College officials have scheduled a community forum on campus today to discuss an assault that authorities say was ethnically motivated. Three Guilford College students are free on bond after authorities accused them of beating three Palestinian students. Two of the students were seriously injured. The News and Record of Greensboro, citing court documents, reports that the assailants used their fists, feet and brass knuckles. The attack involved at least 15 members of the school's football team and occurred at Bryan Hall, a dormitory on the Guilford College campus. The attack occurred early Saturday morning. Michael Bates, Michael Robert Six...

Security guards protecting union opponent By J.D. Walker -- Staff Writer, The Courier-Tribune Posted: 03/15/05 - 10:20:19 pm CST HIGH POINT - A Thomasville man is under 24-hour security detail after allegedly being threatening because of his opposition to union activity at his workplace. Jeff Ward filed a complaint against the United Auto Workers (UAW) union at Thomas Built Buses after a card-check petition verified in March 2004 established the union as the sole representative for employees there. The Thomas Built plant is located half in Guilford and half in Randolph counties. Ward filed his complaint with the help of...

More 'Hit Lists' Found At Guilford County Schools 2 hours, 22 minutes ago Local - WXII ThePiedmontChannel.com School officials in Guilford County are investigating a series of "hit list" notes found in county schools Friday. One note, that threatened 12 students, was found at Northwest High School. It was left on a teacher's desk and was found after lunch. Two Jamestown Middle students were caught Friday in separate cases of writing threatening letters. Also, a similar note was found on a bathroom wall at Mendenhall Middle in Greensboro. The incidents occurred three days after a threatening note was found at...

Maine Civil Liberties Union prompts council's change MONSON - It has long been a tradition in March for residents in this small Piscataquis County town to bow their heads in prayer before they act on the town's budget for the year. That tradition is no longer. Monson selectmen voted last week to discontinue the practice of including prayer in municipal meetings. The move was prompted by a request from the Maine Civil Liberties Union for the town to cease including sectarian prayer in its public meetings. The MCLU said it had received complaints from Monson residents who felt discouraged from...

College student says he was trying to expose security weaknesses ... A North Carolina college student who hid box cutters on airplanes to expose weaknesses in airline security was sentenced Thursday to two years of supervised probation and fined $500. Nathaniel Heatwole of Damascus, Md., a student at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., also must serve 100 hours of community service and reimburse his parents for up to $500 in legal expenses under the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Legal proceedings were expected Monday in a federal court in Baltimore against a college student who the FBI believes hid box cutters and other banned items aboard two Southwest Airlines planes, the agency said. Government prosecutors still were trying to determine what charges they might bring against Nathaniel T. Heatwole. The 20-year-old student had warned officials he would try to bring forbidden articles onto commercial flights to expose holes in security, an official said.A federal law enforcement official confirmed Saturday that investigators are interviewing Heatwole, of Greensboro, N.C., to learn how he got through airport screeners while...