By Richy Huneycutt Chelsea Raynor of Kinston wasn’t sure what she wanted to do in life, but she knew she had to make a change. She came to Lenoir Community College in September 2017 and enrolled in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth Program when she was 16 years old. A single mom of a two-month-old son, Chelsea said she quit high school as a freshman because she...

By Richy Huneycutt North Lenoir High School 2018 graduate Grayson Shreves made his decision to attend Lenoir Community College rather than going to a four-year university based on a guarantee LCC made to him. He received the LCC Guarantee Scholarship, a scholarship in which area students who achieve academic success in high school could get their first two years of college free. The LCC...