Online Safety
By: Stacey Posey: School Resource Officer
Sentinel Guest Writer
Parents, do you regularly check who your child’s friends are on social network sites?  Recently, some of our middle and high schools girls received a friend request from “a guy” who says he is about their age but lives in another state.  Several of our girls accepted [...]

his was another busy week in Washington where we debated many issues of vital importance to those of you in North Carolina and Americans across the country.  Last night, I introduced a bill, the Empowering Local Educational Decision Making Act, that will improve America’s education system by giving states and  local communities the flexibility they [...]

Leaning Left
Jim Fitzgerald
“This is truly a lost decade. We think of America as a place where every generation is doing better, but we’re looking at a period when the median family is in worse shape than it was in the late 1990s.” Lawrence KATZ, an economics professor at Harvard University.
The data are in and, again, [...]

We could solve our country’s energy dependence on foreign oil if someone could just figure out how to turn bullshi# into fuel. Then we could run a pipeline from the White House and major Liberal/Progressive media outlets and we would have a surplus of domestic energy.
The Obama administration and Department of Energy (DOE) could do [...]

The Green Column
by Richard C. MacCrea, Andrews Valley Initiative
rmaccrea1@gmail.com
I understand why a lot of people are afraid to try living green. Most of the information comes from companies that are trying to sell us something, and lot of the stuff doesn’t work. Do we have to spend money to live green? No. Let’s consider what [...]

Jewelry Sale
Murphy Medical Center is sponsoring the Masquerade Jewelry Sale on Thursday, October 6 from 7 am – 4 pm, and Friday, October 7 from 7 am – 4 pm at the Travis E. Green Conference Room in the main lobby.  Fashion jewelry at fabulous prices!  Call 828-835-3667 for information.
A series of free Fall Writer’s [...]

The call came across the radio in the early afternoon.  An improvised explosive device had struck a vehicle and there were casualties.  After a few minutes, the report was revised, and the casualties were Afghan army and not Americans.  While there was general sense of relief among those of us listening, we also knew the [...]

Rep. Shuler, Blue Dog Coalition to “Super Committee” Members:
‘Now is the time to put party affiliations aside and work together for the sake of our country’s future’
Washington, DC — Today U.S. Representative Heath Shuler joined fellow leaders of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition to send a letter to the members of the Joint Select [...]

Jewelry Sale
Murphy Medical Center is sponsoring the Masquerade Jewelry Sale on Thursday, October 6 from 7 am – 4 pm, and Friday, October 7 from 7 am – 4 pm at the Travis E. Green Conference Room in the main lobby.  Fashion jewelry at fabulous prices!  Call 828-835-3667 for information.
DANCE at the Franklin (NC) Community [...]

Biking across Europe
TCCC Early College teachers take the trip of their life
By Jade Collins & Saffyia Adam
Guest writers
Most teachers spend their summers relaxing at home, locking themselves behind closed doors to get away from the students that harass them on a day-to-day basis during the school year. Not Ben Owens and Jason Sickle, math/science teachers [...]