America’s Got Talent winner Landau Murphy, Jr. filled the hall of Mac Gray auditorium with smooth renditions of classic jazz standards Sunday.
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North Iredell High School’s traditional end-of-year musical, set to run four days this week, will feature the dramatic talents of elementary, middle and high school students.
Landau Murphy Jr. has performed to sold-out audiences in places like New York and Los Angeles — and on Sunday, the 2011 “America’s Got Talent” winner will take the stage in Statesville.
Michael Thier, director of South Iredell High School’s International Baccalaureate (IB) program, called SIHS junior Rob Gourley an “excellent example of what a student can be.”
For the past 17 years, the Martin Luther King Day committee has honored the late civil rights leader with a prayer breakfast and a day of helping local nonprofits with beautification or other projects.
Education spending accounts for 44.6 percent of the first draft of the 2012-13 fiscal year budget that was presented to Iredell County Commissioners by County Manager Ron Smith this week.
Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education member Keith Williams said goodbye to the Iredell County Government Center’s meeting room for the last time as a public servant Monday.
U.S. News & World Report named Statesville High School the 11th best public high school in North Carolina in the magazine’s latest rankings of the best high schools in the nation.
The Visual and Performing Arts Center Early College High School (VPAC) held its second annual graduation ceremony Friday with six times as many students picking up diplomas than did in last year’s inaugural commencement.
Judy Kurfees has become something of a mother to the students and teachers at South Iredell High School.
Letha Foust's road to finishing high school has been a long one.
Iredell-Statesville Schools will win $20,000 to use toward educational programs if driver Paul Menard wins either the NASCAR Sprint Cup All-Star Race or the Coca-Cola 600 later this month.
Kindergartners from N.B. Mills held small, fluffy chicks with amazement and looked them over carefully as a student volunteer from North Iredell High told the children how they could determine if their bird was a boy or a girl.
Dr. Terry Stoops, education director for the John Locke Foundation, a free-market think tank in Raleigh, believes Iredell-Statesville Schools and Mooresville Graded School District are two of the most efficient school systems in the state.
Automotive technology students from the Career Academy and Technical School dominated the Ford / AAA Auto Skills Competition held at Lowe’s Motor Speedway last Thursday.
After a big climb at the beginning of the year, Iredell’s jobless rate fell in March to 10 percent.
Iredell-Statesville Schools showed off its latest advancements to dignitaries Tuesday.
Science class meant the opportunity to shoot paintballs from slingshots for fifth-graders Monday at East Iredell Elementary School.
There were far more daughters than fathers who were actually dancing -- and most of the dances were of the “Bunny-Hop” variety, along with a few good versions of the “Twist.”
Playing with raw cotton was fun, and so was eating freshly made butter. But Blake Davis and some of his classmates at Central Elementary really enjoyed learning about building log cabins.
In a spontaneous moment on Wednesday, Fifth Street Shelter Ministries client Steve Davidson shared his life story with a group local high school students.
The Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education is requesting $33,344,596 from the Iredell County Board of Commissioners as the local supplement for its 2012-13 budget, $2.997 million higher than last year’s allotment of $30.46 million.
Three planned Iredell County schools were among dozens that have applied for a state charter designation.
NASA astronaut Dr. Thomas Marshburn’s name graces the “Welcome to Statesville” signs throughout around the city, directly under the announcement of the 1997 and 2009 “All-America City” awards.
The courtyard of Mitchell Community College was alive with color and food, as students and faculty shared a bit about their cultures during the college’s second International Festival on Saturday.
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