Courtesy of WGHP FOX 8 News/www.myfox8.com: GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Multiple juveniles were pepper sprayed during a fight by a school resource officer on Friday night, according to a Guilford County Sheriff’s Office news release. Around 9 p.m., two juveniles got in a fight at a Southern Guilford High School football game. As deputies from the GCSO were making their way toward the fight, a large crowd quickly formed around the two juveniles. The school resource officer assigned to SGHS was trying to separate the two when a third person started fighting. The SRO used pepper spray on the juveniles…
from Joe Sirera, at www.greensboro.com: GREENSBORO — Leigh Jones, a school support officer for Guilford County Schools, has been chosen to succeed Leigh Hebbard as athletics director for the county’s public schools. Jones will take over on Monday when Hebbard officially retires after 14 years in the position. CLICK HERE to read more/read all….. Never heard of this lady before, and I do not think she has any previous coaching experience in Guilford County, but Leigh, replacing Leigh, should be OK for now, and if you ask me, we shall just wait and see…The biggest challenge might be keeping kids…
Vote Yes or No for the passage of the $1.7 billion dollar school bond that will replace and repair schools in Guilford County??? Many of you have voted already, but for those who have waited until Election Day to cast your vote, and fill out your ballot(by ink pen), you are facing some big questions as you hit that poll hard on Tuesday May 17….. Let’s begin to look at what is supposed to be done with that money(all $1.7 billion dollars of it)….. from our Monday May 16 research: The plan for the $1.7 billion is to fund 18…
I would say the shocker of the night has to be Dudley falling at Durham Hillside…Dudley was down 15-14 at halftime, and then the Hornets laid it on the Panthers in the second half to win that game, 30-14…Big test for Dudley outside of town, and the Panthers go down, hard…. Northern Guilford took out Western Alamance, and it wasn’t even close…Northern wins it, 50-0… Another McInnis touchdown. I have him with 13 rushes for 184 yards and one catch for 61 yards. Northern Guilford leads 36-0. — David Kehrli (@DavidKehrliTN) September 4, 2021 Mercer 69 yards to Terrell Timmons…
**********Guilford County Schools Education News********** Grimsley Baseball and Softball teams may soon become TRUE TRAVEL TEAMS if the Guilford County School Board has their way…. The Guilford County School Board is looking to take away the Grimsley Softball and Baseball fields and they want to use the field/land space for new Renovations that need to made on Kiser Middle School… Kiser Middle School buildings will take over the Grimsely baseball and softball fields, if the Guilford County School Board is allowed to follow through with their takeover plans…. The Guilford County School Board has already decided to close down Archer…
Throwing the football….Standing six feet apart….I have been doing this since back in early May, and so far, so good… Have had some good workouts…Every Saturday afternoon, for two-three hours. What’s the danger, what’s the health threat, in throwing the football with another person, while standing six feet apart? The high school football players could be coming to their schools and throwing the football, while standing/staying Six Feet apart…. High School football players can enter the practice field and maintain a distance of Six Feet at all times… Throwing the football while maintaining a Six Feet distance…Running while maintaining a…
Guilford County School Board decides to start first nine weeks of fall instruction virtually The Guilford County Schools are suggesting that GCS reopen on August 17 with Remote Learning and then carry on the Remote Learning for the first nine weeks of school… Vote coming tonight at the Guilford County Board of Education meeting, on GCS starting school back on August 17 and going remote until at least October 20….This corresponds with Governor Roy Copper’s Plan C for the return to education for the school students in North Carolina…. GCS has also come up with four different scenarios that have…
from Ben Smart, with WFMY TV 2 NEWS…..CLICK HERE to check out the Ben Smart post and to also view the Ben Smart video interview from Latham Park on Sunday evening…. GREENSBORO, N.C. — A group of parents gathered on Sunday to rally for sports at Guilford County Schools to resume practices — or at least feature more prominently in the conversation around the fall 2020 semester. About 15 parents gathered at Latham Park in Greensboro for about an hour. They discussed their reasons for wanting school sports to resume and handed out flyers featuring mental health resources. “I think…
Not a huge crowd, but a good crowd on hand today, to show support for High School Sports/Athletics in Guilford County…. The rally was held at the Guilford County Schools Education Offices on Eugene Street…We were outside, and it was HOT, but the group that gathered this morning(Wednesday), did get their point across… It was all about rallying support for high school sports in Guilford County for 2020… Mainly the rally was to show full support, for the Fall Sports this upcoming school year… Representatives were there from Southwest Guilford, Page, Ragsdale, Grimsley, Eastern Guilford, Southeast Guilford, Dudley and Northern…
This word coming in tonight from Brian Hall, with WFMY TV 2 Sports, and coming from Brian Hall on Twitter…. The Summer Workouts are still scheduled to begin for the Guilford County Schools and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools this upcoming Monday, July 20….. These are the athletics/sports workouts/training for football, soccer, volleyball, cross country, golf, and other sports, and the workouts will take place at each Guilford County Schools/WS-FCS student’s given/chosen high school, and these workouts will be limited to conditioning and skill demonstrations only, and there will be NO contact allowed, and none of the Guilford County Schools/WS-FCS weight rooms…
Several GCS principals and leaders will take on new roles beginning this summer. (In listing some of the names we are familiar with, we have, moves including Rodney Wilds leaving Dudley HS, Pete Kashubara leaving Western Guilford HS, Angie Polk-Jones going to the Middle College at GTCC, and Gregory Newlin coming to Western Guilford HS.) from the Guilford County Schools website: Eboni Chillis, current executive director of career and technical education, will serve as the district’s interim chief innovation officer. Chillis came to GCS in September 2019 from Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia, where she served as director/coordinator of…
from www.myfox8.com: Coming in from WGHP FOX 8 News/Sports at 5pm….. GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. – Guilford County Schools released a statement on Wednesday, saying summer practices and workouts will reopen in a modified format on Monday, July 6. The full statement is provided below: “Following the authorization of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) to reopen summer practices and workouts in a modified format, GCS has announced its plans to resume some athletics and other extracurricular activities. Beginning Monday, July 6, GCS plans to reopen only high school fall sports and marching band training. Other sports and middle…
from the Guilford County Schools website:/CLICK HERE GCS Presents Graduation Recognition Plan Guilford County Schools is postponing its traditional graduation ceremonies in May and June due to the coronavirus pandemic. The district’s 28 high schools will hold “drive-thru” recognitions instead to honor graduating seniors. The district announced the plan today. The decision was made after hearing from parents and meeting with senior class presidents, high school principals and district leadership, most of whom indicated a preference for either in-person or drive-thru events. Student leaders did not favor holding virtual ceremonies. The district intends to host in-person ceremonies as soon as…
Here is the latest news on the developing story involving former Dudley High School assistant teacher and assistant boys basketball coach Christopher Holland…We will work to add more on this story as new information becomes available… from the LadyLiberty1885 website with A.P. Dillon:CLICK HERE to visit this site….. Law firms file suit against Guilford County Board of Education in Holland case Posted on May 8, 2020 by A.P. Dillon Two Wilmington area law firms filed a civil class-action lawsuit Friday against the Guilford County Board of Education and the former Dudley High School coach and teacher’s assistant accused of sexually…
Governor Cooper orders public schools to close statewide from www.greensboro.com: Gov. Roy Cooper ordered Saturday all public schools in the state to close for at least two weeks beginning Monday as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The order to close comes hours after Wake County Schools and Johnston County Schools announced they would close starting Monday. A Wake County teacher is among the 23 known cases of COVID-19 statewide, according to various media outlets. Prior to Saturday’s announcement, all high school sports statewide had been canceled or postponed. Many school districts had canceled all extracurricular activities, such as proms…
from Twitter: Due to the threat of inclement weather, GCS schools will dismiss two hours early for students on Thursday, Feb. 20, with an option to close. All afterschool activities, athletics and ACES programs also are canceled for Thursday.
We have our Football in Focus Show coming up again tonight, from the KickBack Jack’s, on Battleground Avenue… GreensboroSports Radio We will kick things off at 6pm with Joe Sirera, from the News and Record’s HSXtra section and with Joe on board, we will take a look back at last Friday night’s games, including the key East Forsyth at Grimsley game, Northeast Guilford over Northern Guilford, and then others… We will also bridge the gap with Joe on into this week’s games, and see how the favorites are doing and how the Guilford County playoff picture might be shaping up,…
With power outages to at least 16 area schools and three of the Guilford County schools in need of repair that can’t happen right away, the Guilford County Schools system will remain Closed on Tuesday… No school for the GCS kids on Tuesday and as for the baseball, softball, and other Spring Sports seasons, they may end up behind schedule at least one week and that all depends on when the schools resume operations….. At least three of the school’s students will be relocated for the remainder of the 2018 school year and many schools are in need of that…
from Twitter: Guilford Co. Schools? @GCSchoolsNC GCS schools will close two hours early today due to the threat of inclement weather. All afterschool activities are cancelled.
from WFMY NEWS 2 at www.wfmynews2.com: *****GUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS – Delayed 2 hours Friday***** CLOSINGS ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS – Closed on Friday RANDOLPH COUNTY SCHOOLS – Closed on Friday CHATHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS – Closed on Friday CARROLL COUNTY SCHOOLS – Closed on Friday MONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOLS – Closed on Friday PATRICK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS – Closed on Friday DELAYS GUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS – Delayed 2 hours Friday LEXINGTON CITY SCHOOLS – Delayed 2 hours Friday THOMASVILLE CITY SCHOOLS – Delayed 2 hours Friday DAVIDSON COUNTY SCHOOLS – Delayed 2 hours Friday WINSTON-SALEM FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS – Delayed 2 hours Friday DAVIE…