Icard News

In a 5-2 vote, the Burke County Board of Education eliminated corporal punishment from the Burke County School System, and in a 7-0 vote it passed the 2012-13 budget, eliminating 5 percent from its local pot of funds.

Burke school employees can no longer paddle students who misbehave, after school board members voted Monday to ban corporal punishment.

A new discipline procedure policy is up for vote Monday at the Burke County Board of Education's meeting and if it passes Burke County will join 100 out of 117 other public school systems in the state that do not use corporal punishment as a means of discipline.

Creating jobs, government efficiency and developing long-term plans are all priorities for three of the Republican candidates for Burke County Board of Commissioners.

The Highway Patrol communications center received several calls at about 6:05 p.m. on Tuesday about an impaired driver who was around the 116 mile marker of Icard on Interstate 40 east in Burke County, said Sgt.

Icard Elementary School students Christopher Huffman and Corinne Slutsly tell what they know about their principal's heart attack.