Johnston schools celebrate gains amid low performers
Four Oaks area schools kept D grades this year while Johnston County Public Schools moved up from 83rd to 35th in North Carolina rankings. East Clayton Elementary dropped to a D, leaving only one low-performing school in the district, according to State Board of Education results released at Four Oaks Middle School.
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Four Oaks
Johnston
North Carolina
State Board of Education
Eric Bracy
Four Oaks Middle
Bracy
Johnston County
East Clayton Elementary
Runners forge friendships in Smithfield Selma club
Allison Stancil of Smithfield describes the Smithfield Selma Running Club as a mix of friendship community and fitness. She started running inspired by her father a state trooper and uses running to relieve stress while balancing a diabetes pre run routine.
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Selma — Johnston
Allison Stancil
Smithfield
Selma
Stancil
Smithfield- Selma
Opening of N C 540 extension to Johnston County
The Complete 540 Phase 1 extension from the N C 55 Bypass in Apex to the I 40 I 42 interchange in Johnston County opens at 6 a.m. Sept. 25. A Sept. 24 ribbon cutting will mark the event as crews finish lighting, signs, toll tech, and roadway work. Eastbound Exit 47 Bells Lake Road remains closed until November.
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Raleigh
N.C. 55
Apex
Johnston County
N.C
Bells Lake Road
County hears offer to tame cat numbers
SMITHFIELD The offer would spend 100 over one year to trap vaccinate spay or neuter and return stray cats to the capture site Best Friends Animal Society would fund and provide volunteers County Commissioners questioned potential long term costs and efficacy while noting concerns about returning cats to the source of complaints East Region manager John Graves of Best Friends argued spaying and neutering would reduce nuisance issues and drive down the population Johnston County has traditionally killed unclaimed or unadopted stray cats rather than release them See CATS 5
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Smithfield
Best Friends Animal Society
K.J. Stancil
Ted Godwin
Best Friends
Butch Lawter
Fred Smith
Smith
John Graves
East Region
Johnston County
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