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Thomasville Library honors James A. Beatty Jr.

After his family moved to Thomasville when he was only three weeks old, Beatty (a Thomasville High School alumnus) went on to receive President Bill Clinton's nomination for United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. He became the chief judge of that court in 2006 and retired from active service in 2018.

Library makes a splash in Thomasville, offers Monday book sale

Experts call the “Summer Slide” the tendency for students to lose some of the reaching achievements made during the previous school year. Some estimates say, “it costs the educational system more than $1,500 per student to reteach materials. Over the course of a K-12 education, that can equate to more than $18,000 per student.”