“Being able to provide a safe haven for our youth is very
important. It’s imperative that we do that as a community.”

— Alisha Byrd, on receiving a Humanitarian Award, along with Alex Clark, for their youth empowerment programs

“It’s too good of a location to let it go to waste.”

— Gerald Osborne, Cleveland town commissioner, on fate of building after Cleveland Elementary School is replaced

“I think he’d be encouraged in some ways and kind of heartbroken in other ways. I think he’d say, ‘Keep the dream alive, but wake up.’”

— Seth Labovitz, on what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. might think about today’s society

“I don’t know of anything that would have made me smile today, except for this.”

— Bonnie Emerson, on learning the day after husband Jim’s funeral that their son, Ike, received an appointment to West Point

“We all know that the criminals are not going to register their guns.”

— Vicky Benfield, to Salisbury City Council, in reaction to comments about gun registration