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Resignations on Bethalto School Board
There’s a new look coming for the Bethalto School District after at least three resignations over the past week. Board members Kory Stassi and Jeff Whaley resigned prior to the May 23rd meeting, causing its postponement to Tuesday night. At that meeting, chief school business official Barrett Deist also tendered his resignation.
Kirkwood High hires experienced head coach to lead girls’ basketball team
CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Kirkwood High Athletics announced on Thursday the hiring of Micah Rochester, who will be taking over as the Lady Cobras’ second girls’ basketball coach in school history. Rochester currently serves as a teacher at Kirkwood High but has 17 years of head...
L&C remembers two retired business faculty for their lasting impacts
As the Spring 2024 semester has come to a close, Lewis and Clark Community College is looking back on the lasting impacts left by two business faculty members who died within a week of one another early in the semester, in unrelated events. Robert Everett, of St. Charles, Mo., died...
SIUE Chancellor Minor joins Anderson Hospital board of trustees
Anderson Hospital recently announced the appointment of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) Chancellor James T. Minor, Ph.D., to its Board of Trustees. Dr. Minor brings over 20 years of experience in higher education and government service, making him a valuable addition to the board. Prior to his role as Chancellor at SIUE, Dr. Minor served as assistant vice chancellor and senior strategist with the California State University system, one of the largest and most diverse four-year systems in the nation.
Belleville’s Roosevelt Elementary is national teachers’ lounge makeover winner
Crayola, Walmart and Schoolgirl Style recently teamed up to make life a bit more comfortable for teachers at 12 schools across the country through a new “Teachers’ Lounge Makeover” initiative. Through this collaboration, Roosevelt Elementary School in Belleville was selected as one of the winning schools to receive a complete makeover for their teachers’ lounge, including $4,000 in Walmart gift cards to put toward the transformation.
Keokuk, Fort Madison high school students’ welded sculptures displayed in Lee County park
Art students from Keokuk High School and Ft. Madison High School have welded four metal sculptures depicting Iowa’s natural habitat. Sculptures of a deer, an eagle, a beehive, and mosquitos are now on display along the trails at the Heron Bend Conservation Area, located along the Mississippi River a few miles north of Montrose.
Opinion: More of this: It took real courage to crush Wash-U’s campus ‘tentifada’
For the first time, a major liberal university has stepped up and done the right thing by arresting the “tentifada” clowns who had been privatizing its campus to feed their own narcissism. The merits of the campus Free Palestine movement are dubious enough on their own. It takes a special kind of cognitive dissonance to…
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