I've got some sad news to pass along.

Luther Johnson, most recently the former principal of Holly Springs High School, died Friday after a long illness. He was 39.

Johnson was also a past principal of Leesville Road Middle School and an assistant principal at Wakefield High School.

Two Northern Wake high schools are getting new principals and a familiar face of reassignment will be filling at another school.

Ramey Beavers will become the interim principal of Holly Springs High. He's filling in for Luther Johnson, who has been hospitalized with an illness.

Beavers was the senior director in charge of growth management from 1997 to 2006. He was the person out there announcing the reassignment plan each year before he retired in 2006.