NEWS
November 3, 1991
Instructor James LaBarre and members of the Carroll County Career and Technology Center's diesel technology program have received the 1991 Distinguished Career and Technology Education Program from the state Department of Education.The program was judged on sources of money and program costs; number of students; success of graduates; overview of the center; purpose and objectives; description of techniques, materials, equipment and facilities; planning and cooperation with business and industry; feedback from students, employers and other groups; and publicity and recognition the program has received.
FEATURES
By Stephen Wigler and Stephen Wigler,SUN MUSIC CRITIC | January 18, 1999
Renee Fleming has a rare combination of charm and grace and the kind of charisma on stage that Monroe and Loren had in movies.Fleming is an opera singer, which makes those qualities rarer still. Little wonder that her equally glamorous voice (fresh, full and effortless) and her fine acting skills have made her the most talked about lyric soprano of the last 10 years.And, as Fleming demonstrated Saturday in a sold-out Kennedy Center recital in the Washington Performing Arts Society Series, she's that rarity that Arturo Toscanini once called "a soprano with brains."