Board moves the line between South, West

(The Stokes News) - The lines between South Stokes and West Stokes high schools will be moving following action taken by the Stokes County Board of Education Monday night.

For several months, the board members have been tossing around the idea of moving the boundary line that separates the two schools’ districts to help ease overcrowding at West Stokes so it will not meet its capacity for many more years, and Monday the school board agreed to make N.C. 66 the boundary between the two schools.

The approval didn’t come in the first vote taken, though. School board member Sonya Cox explained prior to the first vote that she agreed with where the boundary line should be drawn and that she was only voting no because she felt the move should be made in the 2008-09 school year rather than the 2009-10 school year that was proposed by Superintendent Dr. Stewart Hobbs.