The Roanoke Rapids Fire Department will be reaching out the community, especially the children next week.
Deans Eatman, a Roanoke Rapids High School graduate and current senior at North Carolina State University, was appointed Tuesday by the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District Board of Trustees to serve on the Halifax Community College Board of Trustees.
A resolution of intent to formally close Barrett Street is another signal of the impending construction of a new Manning Elementary School.
The chairman of the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District Board of Education assured commissioners today the school system would stay within the $19.2 million cost range on a new Manning Elementary School and if possible would try to keep it under that figure.
The Roanoke Rapids Board of Education voted tonight to adjust the supplemental school tax rate to 22.5 cents.
Halifax County Board of Commissioner Chairman Vernon Bryant, in letters to the editor to three area media outlets, has responded to a statement released earlier this week on Manning Elementary School funding.
The Roanoke Rapids Graded School District today released a statement saying the Halifax County Board of Commissioners' decision to hold the cost of a new Manning Elementary School at $19.2 million is of concern to parents and is “simply not enough.”
Halifax County commissioners today OK'd the appropriation of $1.2 million that will lay the groundwork for possible construction of a new Manning Elementary School.
The Roanoke Rapids Graded School District has given its consensus on a plan to build a new Manning Elementary School for $19.2 million, but commissioners today balked at approving that figure and voting on a $1.2 million allocation to cover start-up costs of the project, wanting more detailed financing figures and how it will impact taxpayers.
The Roanoke Rapids Graded School District Board of Trustees named John Parker today the interim superintendent.
