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Your guide to winter high school sports

Torrey Bussey, a Cary senior and state record-holder in the 100-meter breaststroke, is one of the high school athletes to watch this winter. See The News & Observer's winter high school sports preview on Friday. And coming Sunday, the high school basketball preview.

Schools offer free seasonal flu shots for Wake students

All school-age children in Wake County can receive free seasonal flu shots at any one of 21 clinics being held at public and private schools in coming weeks.

All but one of the clinics will be held between 3:30 and 7:30 p.m., and they are open to students in kindergarten through 12th grade regardless of where they live in the county or what school they attend. A parent or guardian must accompany all students when they receive the vaccine.

Only shots for seasonal flu will be available, not H1N1 flu. The clinics will begin Tuesday and continue at different sites through Nov. 24.

Students to march for early voting

High school students will hold a march Saturday to encourage early voting in the primaries.

Students from Durham School of the Arts, Durham Academy and Hillside, Jordan and Northern high schools will begin at 10 a.m. at Northern High School, at 117 Tom Wilkinson Road, and continue to the North Regional Library early voting site at 221 Milton Road, according to a news release.

Any other high school students, parents and faculty are welcome. The march is nonpartisan.

3 magnet schools win accolades

Three magnet middle schools in Durham were recognized nationally for their instructional programs, according to an announcement Monday.

Magnet Schools of America named Durham School of the Arts and R.N. Harris Elementary School as Schools of Excellence, and honored Club Boulevard Elementary School as a School of Distinction, according to a Durham Public Schools news release.

The awards are based on the school's curriculum, diversity, equity and high academic standards, according to a statement from Magnet Schools of America.

East Wake's four schools to continue

The four small schools at East Wake High School got a thumbs-up Tuesday when the Wake school board voted for them to continue operating as specialized units within a whole.

Interim Chairman Kevin Hill asked for a show of thumbs and got it. And the four principals of the school attending Tuesday's meeting beamed.

The vote means the schools have a reprieve until at least December of 2010 after three audits are performed. At that time, the staff will either recommend continuing the schools-within-a-school concept or introduce a plan to phase them out.