By Chris Miles Sports Editor It’s been said that if you like hot dogs, don’t ever watch how they’re made. The process that goes into making the ballpark staple has been known to turn would-be weiner lovers into vegetarians. The same don’t watch because it might make you sick concept could have applied to [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor The West Jefferson softball team continues to make history. The Roughriders (19-10) earned the school’s first-ever appearance in a district championship game with a 1-0 defeat of Centerburg Monday in a D-III tournament game played at Pickerington North. “This is something that hasn’t been done before,” WJ coach Jim [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer The Jonathan Alder Board of Education hired Aaron Johnson as interim treasurer during a special meeting on Friday. Johnson is the current treasurer of Fairbanks Local Schools in Union County. He will work five to 20 hours per week at Alder, beginning immediately. Johnson will receive $50 [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer London City Schools continue to get their financial house in order, according to treasurer Kristine Blind. Blind presented a revised five-year forecast for the school district at Tuesday’s board of education meeting. Revenues for the 2013 fiscal year ending on June 30 totaled $18,591,323, while expenses fell to $17,830,982. [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer Janis Thom resigned as treasurer of the Jonathan Alder Local School District on Monday after Superintendent Gary Chapman and independent accountants found errors in her five-year financial forecast, including an overstatement of revenue. Those errors forced the district to begin cutting expenses immediately in order to avoid ending the [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor The Central District track and field coaches usually get the raw deal when it comes to coverage of their respective tournament draws compared to other high school sports. When you consider the expectation that goes into who will play each other in head-to-head games in sports like baseball, softball, [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer Despite the efforts by the Madison-Plains Local Schools administration and the district’s impact committee to educate voters on the need for a replacement permanent improvement levy, voters soundly rejected the measure. According to unofficial results from the Madison County Board of Elections, voters defeated the issue by a 56 [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer The countdown is on. With less than a week until Tuesday, May 7, Madison-Plains school district officials are taking into account not only information disseminated about the need for its permanent improvement levy, but also information taken in as the district took its campaign throughout its 270 square miles. [...]
