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December 9 - December 15, 2010 Vol. 8 • No. 49 Woodfin • Weaverville • Barnardsville • Alexander Fifty Cents North Windy assistant principal arrested


By Matt Tate The Buncombe County


Schools system has suspended North Windy Ridge School as- sistant principal Sarah Cooley with pay pending the outcome of two charges filed against her Saturday (Dec. 4). Asheville police arrested


Cooley on charges of obtain- ing property by false pretense and misdemeanor larceny after


she allegedly stole $278 worth of clothing and jewelry on Fri- day (Dec. 3) from Belk in the Asheville Mall. She is alleged to have tried to return some of the items for cash the following day when she was arrested. Cooley, 39, of Clarks Cha-


pel Road in Weaverville, joined North Windy Ridge as assistant principal in February. She pre- viously served as assistant prin- cipal at North Buncombe High School and has been an assis-


Sarah Cooley. Snow falls on


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tant principal with the schools since 2003, said Jan Blunt with Buncombe County Schools. Be- fore joining Buncombe County Schools, she was an English teacher. At the fifth- and sixth-grade


school in Weaverville, one of Cooley’s primary responsibili- ties is managing the buses. Blunt said Cooley’s status


with the schools would be eval- uated once her case is resolved, but she will remain suspended with pay until her case has been settled. She added the suspen- sion was the schools’ standard procedure. Cooley was released on a writ- ten promise to appear in court.


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