SALISBURY - First Reformed United Church of Christ in Lexington will host a concert by the Catawba Singers at 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 14. The church is located at 104 E. Center Street and members of the general public are invited to attend the concert.

The 34-member strong Catawba Singers from Catawba College in Salisbury will offer several styles of music at the concert although most of the selections will be sacred in nature.  Members of the Catawba Chamber Singers, a smaller ensemble group within the Catawba Singers, will sing “Loch Lomond,” “My Soul's Been Anchored,” “With a Lily in His Hand,” a Lithuanian folk song, a Renaissance motet, and “I Thank You God For Most This Amazing Day.”  The Catawba Singers will sing “Poor Man Lazarus,” a jazz tune based on Beethoven's “Fur Elise,” “The Road Not Taken,” and “Poor Man of Sorrow.”  

Pianist Jacob Hahn will accompany the Singers at this event.

SALISBURY - Rowan - Salisbury Schools Superintendent is set to retire soon, leaving an opening for the system's top job.  Who should get it?

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SALISBURY - Two Catawba College students were awarded 1st place Derieux Research Awards, in their respective divisions, for excellence in undergraduate research at the 110th Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science (NCAS) Meeting.   Marlon Ryan Barber of Mocksville and Mary Podgorak-Lagro of Salisbury were recognized at the annual meeting held April 5 and 6 at UNC Pembroke.

The titles of the students’ research and the professors who assisted these students are as follows:

 Barber, Marlon R. and Dr. Constance Rogers-Lowery. Effects of ocean acidification on growth of a marine hydroid.

 Podgorak-Lagro, Mary and Dr. Jay Bolin. An evaluation of hybrid intermediacy in the germination ecology of Ashe’s Sumac, Rhus asheii (Rhus michauxii X Rhus glabra).

 Dr. Constance Rogers-Lowery is an assistant professor of biology and chair of that department at Catawba, while Dr.