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Needed: Substitute teachers

Needed: Substitute teachers

ESS has partnered with Montgomery County Schools to manage the substitute teacher program and they’re looking to hire about 100 subs. The new teachers must work at least two days a week, and can work up to five days a week. The job comes with benefits, the pay is...
New charity fights childhood cancer

New charity fights childhood cancer

There’s a new local charity aimed at childhood cancer – the Max Life Foundation – and organizers have already scheduled their first event: the Sporting Clay Shoot for Childhood Cancer on April 3 at Four Branches Sporting Preserve in Polkton. Dianna Lariviere of Mount...
Christmas in the Depression Era

Christmas in the Depression Era

A Christmas Memory by Earl Poplin (born in 1931.) I’ve been asked to recount some Christmas memories from my childhood. A formidable task since the time lapse between then and now is greater than I like to think. (I will confide in you that remembering home is the...
Special gifts lead to extra-special note

Special gifts lead to extra-special note

A Christmas memory by Amy C. Roberts. Every year prior to Santa visiting our home, it was tradition that all of my children would clean out their toy boxes and get rid of items that they no longer played with in order to make room for new toys from Santa. This was in...
Highland Community Center celebrates the holidays

Highland Community Center celebrates the holidays

By Earl Leake The Highland Community Center welcomed the holiday season with its annual Christmas banquet Saturday night, highlighted by the longstanding fashion show.  The master of ceremonies, Beverly Harris, doubled as a standup comic and she kept the audience...