By Chris Miles Sports Editor When the Shekinah Christian girls basketball team is hitting its perimeter shots, look out. Northside Christian found out the hard way just how good the third-seeded Flames can be when their outside shots are falling. The Flames (18-6) shot holes in the various different zone defenses the Lions threw [...]
By Kevin Dye Staff Writer Jefferson Local Schools have received a prestigious state award, having been recognized for the excellent accounting of the district’s finances and resources. The district has just received the Auditor of State Award from state auditor Dave Yost’s office. The Auditor of State Award is presented to local governments and [...]
By Kevin Dye Staff Writer With rising costs, it becomes a challenge for school districts to be able to provide all of the learning materials they would like for their students. However, Jefferson Local Schools has generous community partners which have assisted the district with some of its needs. The district accepted several monetary [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer At its first meeting of the new year, the Madison-Plains Board of Education (BOE) moved to place a 2.5 mill replacement levy for permanent improvements on the May 7 ballot. The replacement levy will generate, if passed, an annual sum of $617,764 for five years, commencing in January 2014, [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer The Jonathan Alder Local Schools Board of Education is seeking a replacement for veteran member John Adams II, D.O., who resigned on Jan. 4, citing potential conflict of interest. Application forms are available on the district’s Web site and through Superintendent Gary Chapman’s office. Applicants may also send letters of [...]
By AMANDA LEE MYERS CINCINNATI (AP) — A former high school teacher is accusing school district administrators of discriminating against her because of a rare phobia she says she has: a fear of young children. Maria Waltherr-Willard, 61, had been teaching Spanish and French at Mariemont High School in Cincinnati since 1976. Waltherr-Willard, who does [...]
As the national conversation about guns, schools and student safety continues, administrators at Jonathan Alder Local Schools are training staff members in ways to prevent a Newtown, Connecticut-type shooting.
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS COLUMBUS (AP) — Students withholding information about an alleged rape in an eastern Ohio city last summer are thwarting investigators, school officials said Thursday as they encouraged students to contact police if they know something. The Steubenville school board is also expanding programs to raise further awareness of sexual harassment, bullying, date [...]
