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Trustees make decision to ease crowding

davis — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:35:12 +0000

Reporter January Wetzel will report in Wedmnesday’s edition of The Tribune and online at TribTown.com that Seymour Community Schools vote 6-1 Tuesday night to shift sixth-grade classes from Seymour Middle School to the former Seymour-Jackson Elementary School.

The building on South Poplar Street is now serving as Jackson County Education Center, housing an alternative school and providing classroom space for Ivy Tech Community College and IUPUC.

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School decision growing near

davis — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:44:37 +0000

Seymour Community Schools trustees are expected to decide later this month how to deal with crowded classrooms, especially at Seymour Middle School.

Parents, taxpayers and others have a final chance to state their views on six options outlined by Superintendent Teran Armstrong over the past few months when the trustees gather Monday night for last scheduled public meeting on the issue.

Reporter January Wetzel reports on the issue in a story for Saturday’s edition of The Tirbune and online at TribTown.com.

She speaks with Armstrong, school board President Martha McIntire, Hamilton Township resident Bill Bryden, who is offering on what he’s dubbed “Option 7,” and others.

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Lutheran schools celebrate

davis — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:03:56 +0000

This is National Lutheran Schools Week, and Jackson County’s Lutheran schools are joining in the fun.

A big part of the week localley brought Lutheran schoolchildren from Jackson and Bartholomew counties together at Trinity Lutheran High School on Wednesday to visit with Miss America 2009 Katie Stam. Stam attended St. John’s Sauers Lutheran School near Seymour, and her mother, Tracy Stam, is a teacher at Immanuel Lutheran School in Seymour (her dad, Keith, teached at Seymour High School).

Reporters January Wetzel and Jill Treadway will be reporting on activities at area schools in a story on Friday. Look for it and pictures from the events.

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Memories of school consolidations

davis — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:23:55 +0000

Be sure to check out reporter January Wetzel’s story in today’s edition of The Tribune and online at TribTown.com.

She reports on the challenges facing small school districts, such as Medora and Crothersville, if Senate Bill 521 becomes law.

Most Hoosier schools consolidated in 1960s. I remember as a child when Owen County schools consolidated in what I beleive was early ’70s. My cousin Garold when Owen Valley High School instead of Patricksburg High School.

There was quite a commotion over that consolidation.

What were things like when schools merged here?

Share your memories.

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