Browse past news stories for Carver High School in Philadelphia, PA.

• All Good Things... (The Mercury)
  posted on March 8, 2010 at 11:46:22 pm
  They desperately wanted to leave the legacy intact.
• WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader, FOX 21 - Eagles, Avant Agree to 5-Year Deal (WBOC Salisbury)
  posted on March 8, 2010 at 08:09:36 pm
  The Philadelphia Eagles on Monday announced they have agreed to terms with WR Jason Avant on a five-year contract. The 26-year-old Avant had been a restricted free agent.
• Violence is key topic at school-reform-panel meeting (Philadelphia Daily News)
  posted on February 18, 2010 at 09:33:00 am
  Superintendent Arlene Ackerman praised a youth group during yesterday's School Reform Commission meeting for launching a campaign to quell youth violence.
• Carver legacy lives on in alumni (The Gadsden Times)
  posted on February 4, 2010 at 02:17:29 am
  By Katherine Poythress Times Staff Writer Although Gadsden's Carver High School was closed nearly 40 years ago as a casualty of integration, and later demolished, its spirit of pride and community throbs on in the hearts of alumni like Bettye Knowles.
• Lake City Community Planner for Jan. 13 (Lake City News & Post)
  posted on January 11, 2010 at 10:01:07 pm
  The Lake City Public Library will offer computer classes for senior citizens beginning at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. This will be a four-week session lasting for one hour. Call (843) 394-8071 to register.
• Lake City Community Planner for Jan. 6 (Lake City News & Post)
  posted on January 4, 2010 at 11:01:07 pm
  Registration for the spring semester at Williamsburg Technical College will be held from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday. Course schedule information is available at http://www.wiltech.edu or by visiting the college.
• Lake City Community Planner for Dec. 30 (Lake City News & Post)
  posted on December 29, 2009 at 12:16:38 am
  Carver High School Alumni will have a New Year’s Eve Ball from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursday at The Market Place, at 431 Church St. in Lake City. Tickets are available at Book World in Lake City or by calling (843) 374-0948.
• Temple University is raising its standards (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  posted on December 23, 2009 at 12:02:00 am
  As any applicant to Temple University knows all too well, it's getting tougher to get in. Ten years ago, seven of every 10 applicants made the grade. Now, it's just six of 10. The school is growing in academic prominence.
• Lake City Community Planner for Dec. 23 (Lake City News & Post)
  posted on December 22, 2009 at 09:01:07 pm
  Students will begin spring semester classes at Francis Marion University on Jan. 12. Registration for new and continuing students will be held Jan. 11. Housing opens for new and continuing students on Jan. 10.
• Richmond County candidate Q&A (The Augusta Chronicle)
  posted on October 26, 2009 at 05:00:00 am
  The following questions were sent to Augusta Commission candidates in writing, and they returned their answers via e-mail within a few days. Some answers were edited for space.
• Homeless man found dead in trash truck (WPVI-TV Philadelphia)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 10:12:21 am
  Police say the homeless man was apparently sleeping in a dumpster that the trash truck unloaded.
• Body Found in Trash Truck (NBC Philadelphia)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 10:05:38 am
  Man may have been accidentally crushed by compactor.
• Area residents remember DeRidder's fallen (Beauregard Daily News)
  posted on September 18, 2009 at 10:22:01 pm
  Today is National Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing In Action (MIA) Recognition Day.
• Floyd makes return visit to USC (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
  posted on July 29, 2009 at 01:03:49 am
  DL Sharrif Floyd (6-3 311) of Philadelphia made a return visit to USC Tuesday, just three days after attending the Gamecocks' Showcase Camp. Floyd is one of the top targets left on USC's board. He left Columbia after the weekend and visited Georgia.
• Rodney Harrison's message has a familiar ring (SouthtownStar)
  posted on July 1, 2009 at 09:14:35 am
  Whether working at NFL camps or helping former New England Patriots teammate Rodney Harrison with his football camp for kids Saturday at Hillcrest, Fred McCrary knows how key motivation can be with young athletes. A fullback in the NFL for 10 years, McCrary wears that motivation on his right hand: the Super Bowl ring, a monstrosity of jewels and crystals, from the Patriots' Super Bowl XXXVIII ...
• W. Philly family beams as triplets & brother bring home diplomas (Philadelphia Daily News)
  posted on June 10, 2009 at 05:30:00 pm
  Visitors to Vogdes Street could easily pick out the Williams home in recent weeks. It was decorated with a silver "Congratulations, Graduate!" banner on the front porch. On each side of the banner were homemade signs bearing the four Williams brothers' names.
• Birmingham has a new semi-pro basketball team, but a league is still iffy (Birmingham News)
  posted on April 29, 2009 at 08:31:33 am
  Jeff Hill has a basketball team. Hill has 12 players selected after three weekends of basically word-of-mouth try-outs in March - 12 guys who have agreed to play basketball for $350 a week plus housing, one meal a day at Golden Corral, and who share a dream of making it big.
• Obituaries March 20, 2009 (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
  posted on March 20, 2009 at 11:17:24 am
  Modess Dye WEST POINT - Modess Bailey Dye, 92, died Thursday, March 19, 2009, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus. She was born May 4, 1916, in Calhoun County to Etta Pettit Bailey and Tom Bailey. She was a homemaker and a longtime member of West End Baptist Church.