MEBANE, N.C. — Just weeks before the school year begins, two kindergarten teachers in Mebane are starting fresh after floodwaters destroyed everything they had collected for their classrooms.
When Tropical Storm Chantal flooded their storage unit in July, Dawn Leath and Kayla Jones lost years of teaching supplies — along with sentimental items like student artwork and handwritten notes.
In the past month, after hearing about their situation, people from across the country reached out with words of encouragement and classroom donations…