Monday during the Mineral Springs School Board’s regular monthly meeting, there was a unanimous vote to appoint board member William Dixon as president, Dorothy Vaughn as Vice President, Barnardo Thomas as secretary, and Mike Erwin as Treasurer. Superintendent Billy Lee informed the board that he had two resignations, Brandy Wilson as an Elementary Teacher and Rheyshaunna Stewart as a lunchroom worker. Lee also presented the list of re-hires of classified staff for the 2024-2025 school…
Read More »On April 15th, the Nashville School Board met. The first order of business was the plan to update the Nashville Elementary and Primary school serving line. Graham reported the district will use surplus funds from the budget that cannot be rolled over into the next school year. Superintendent Doug Graham stated these updates would be good for the district as the Elementary and Primary schools serving lines have not been updated in many years compared…
Read More »Recently students of the Nashville Junior High FCCLA attended this year’s AR FCCLA State Leadership Conference & STAR Event Competition!! NJHS students medaled in gold & silver in their competitive STAR events, and two of their teams advanced to compete at Nationals in Seattle, WA this summer. Also, two of their students who will be serving as region 5 officers next school year were introduced. Also, the Nashville Scrapper Trap team recently attended a tournament…
Read More »Wednesday, the Dierks School Board held their regular monthly meeting. During the meeting the board passed unanimously to accept the resignations of Amy Turner as second grade teacher and Vicky Neal as the high school English teacher. This will be effective at the end of the school year. The board also approved several motions that were in regard to the approval of summer school and ACT school. Summer school for the students of JoAnn Walters…
Read More »Recently KMTB and KNAS had the opportunity to speak with CASA Executive Director Celeste Davis about CASA and the events they are hosting in the month of April. CASA which stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates is a national association in the United States that supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children. Davis stated that they currently serve 90% of the children in foster care in Pike County. She went on to say…
Read More »CASA Executive Director Celeste Davis recently announced that CASA of Pike and Clark County will be hosting a free parenting group next Monday April 15th. Davis stated that CASA is a national organization that’s made up of local programs similar to their program. Davis expressed that advocating for children is hard work but very rewarding. Davis even provided more details of the upcoming parent group called MYTE which stands for Managing Youth Trauma Effectively. Additional…
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Howard County Court met this week seeing 17 year old Christopher Lee Brown of Texarkana.…
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