The citizens speak! Two sides of the Stokes County Schools story. . .

(By Leslie Bray, The Stokes News) - The public showed up in full force at the Nov. 8 county commissioners meeting to speak out on the anticipated decision by the commissioners to approve money for school capital projects. There were two sides: those who felt the issue should be put to the people in the form of a bond referendum and those who wanted the board to vote immediately to incur debt for the school projects.

In the end, the commissioners voted to incur $26.5 million in debt to handle several new construction and renovation projects for county schools. But the issue was a controversial one.

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