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Poet, dancer and “inopportune” singer. Those were just a few of the ways that Mecklenburg commissioners remembered Ella Scarborough, their former colleague, who died earlier this year at age 75. 

At last night’s commissioners meeting, Scarborough was inducted into the Order of the Hornet, the county’s highest honor.

Her former seat was draped in white and wrapped with a bow as her former collogues, friends and family honored her memory. 

The Order of the Hornet, established in 1972, is bestowed by the Board of County Commissioners to people who have displayed “valor” or “high order of service” to the county.