JazzMarie Herndon has spent the last two years juggling as many as three jobs to support herself and a 2-year-old. For the last few months, she has cut her workload to just over 25 hours a week at Build-A-Bear, but for good reason. Herndon, just 18 years old, graduated from Murray High School on Thursday […]
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Former child soldier seeking peace through education speaks to students
Walking through a mass of middle- and high-school students dishing out high fives, shaking his short dreadlocks and rapping, “We can change the way people act … Let’s scream and shout that we want peace,” Emmanuel Jal looks like he was born with a mic in his hand. That could not be further from the […]
Space, money ongoing issues at charter school as applications rise
Some seven months after the Community Public Charter School took up residence at Murray High School, proponents of the Albemarle County school say the move is not everything they had hoped it would be. The school, which serves grades six through eight, is at its capacity of 50 students. In its eighth year of operation, […]