Here’s what you need to know today.
The Big Story
The Boone Area Chamber of Commerce is raising $50,000 to cover child care workers’ child care for October. “Oftentimes these wages aren’t very high and the rates for a month of child care can be anywhere from $700 to $900, maybe even more,” said Ethan Dodson, the chamber’s director of development. “While child care workers might be taking care of a lot of kids, their own kid might be in a classroom next door being taken care of by someone else.”
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The forecast looks pretty nice for today and the weekend. Rain chances look low in any one location, we will have intervals of sunshine, and temperatures will be warmer, although still below August averages.
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Livingstone College is gaining national recognition for its campus-wide approach to mental health support. The Salisbury campus is becoming one of only two historically Black colleges and universities in the country to receive the 2025 Excellence in Mental Health and Well-Being Award from Insight Into Academia magazine…