Budget presentations by the Moore County Schools and Sandhills Community College go to the Board of Commissioners at the regular Monday meeting.

The board will convene at 2 p.m. in the historic courthouse in downtown Carthage.

No action will be taken during the meeting, and the budget requests from both the public schools and the college will be considered in preparation of a final budget to reach the commissioners at the May 19 meeting.

Also on the Monday agenda is an update on the Fort Bragg/Pope Air Force Base Joint Land Use Study. The county planning department will make that presentation.

FILING ENDS — Folks interested in running for public office this year face a Friday deadline. The filing period ends at noon Friday, May 7, according to the Moore County Board of Elections.

An abbreviated filing period is in place this year because of a delay in the primary election schedule. The primary will be held July 20.

There was a flurry of filing activity shortly after the filing period opened Monday, but as of 11 a.m. Friday no new candidates had filed.

HOLSHOUSER — Former Gov. Jim Holshouser will deliver the commencement address on May 8 at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg.

Holshouser now lives in Moore County.

The St. Andrews graduation ceremonies will be held at 9 a.m. May 8 on DeTamble Terrace on the college campus.

St. Andrews will take this occasion to present the former governor with an honorary doctorate of law degree. Holshouser served 11 years as chair of the St. Andrews Board of Trustees and has also served on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. He now practices law in Pinehurst, where he is a partner in the Sanford Holshouser firm.

Holshouser is one of several well-known personalities making graduation appearances in this section of the state this season.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole will be the speaker for the May 8 ceremony at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. The 10 a.m. ceremony will be held on the field beside Lumbee Hall.

Retired Army Gen. Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a North Carolina native, will address the graduating class at Methodist College in Fayetteville in a 2 p.m. ceremony May 8. The program will be held at Riddle Center.

Actor Tim Reid will be the May 7 speaker for commencement ceremonies at Fayetteville State University. The 4 p.m. ceremony will be held at the Crown Coliseum.

BARRETT — Dan Barrett filed Thursday as a Republican candidate for the gubernatorial nomination.

He is one of seven announced Republican candidates, including George W. Little of Southern Pines.

An attorney and a Davie County commissioner, Barrett grew up in nearby Laurinburg. He and his family now live in Advance.

“I’m not a career politician,” Barrett said in a Thursday news release. “I’m not beholden to the special interests or the Raleigh insiders. My obligation is to the people of North Carolina.”

Barrett says one of his goals, if elected, will be to assure that the state pays attention to the needs of local governments.

“But state government is hurting our local communities,” he said. “This governor has seized hundreds of millions of dollars owed to towns and counties. By doing so, he has raised property and sales taxes across the state and cut essential services.”