High Schools

The Youth Advisory Committee of the Charlevoix County Community Foundation has distributed $26,150 in grants this spring to eight local nonprofit agencies to fund programs that benefit young people. Started in 1992, the Youth Advisory Committee was...

For the second consecutive year, Notre Dame incoming freshman midfielder Morgan Andrews has been selected as the Gatorade National High School Girls Soccer Player of the Year. The Milford, N.H., product is the first soccer player of either gender, as...

Judi Pritchard recalls applying for college being a lot simpler than it is now for her only child, Shoshanah, a junior at Southwest High School. “When I went to college it was completely different. It was easier,” she said. “It just...

 The Aberdeen Central girls’ programs had a lot to cheer about on May 11.  That was the day the Golden Eagle girls’ track and field team won the Eastern South Dakota Conference Meet held at Swisher Field in Aberdeen. That win clinched the...

Minutes before receiving her diploma Wednesday night, Hedgesville High School graduating senior Stephanie Gardner said she plans to become a history teacher. “I want to go back (to school), I guess,” the 17-year-old girl said smiling....

Pulaski High School has a super teacher. Today the entire student body gathered in the school gym for what they thought was just an "end of the year'' assembly. Turns out, the meeting was all about honoring Bethany Schafer as one of 8 super teachers...

Trinity College reaped a bounty of Fulbright awards for the 2013-14 academic year, with two graduating seniors and three alumni being awarded fellowships to conduct research or teach. In addition, three others -- two members of the Class of 2013 and an...

CHESTERTOWN, Md. — Maegan Clearwood of Middletown, Md., recently participated in Washington College’s annual senior reading sponsored by the Rose O’Neill Literary House. Clearwood is an English and drama double major with a creative...

In my inbox this week: Matthew Sharpe announces “a little experiment in self-publishing on the Internet”: a series of 12 weekly micro-fictions, under the name “Very short stories r us,” that showcase his idiosyncratic blend of...

Last Monday the school board announced the “demotion” of Calipatria High School Principal Calsada-Medina to Young Middle School. The board reassigned Joe Derma of BYMS to CHS. Calipatria students and parents are protesting this move by...

A Farmington High School student is among the elite high school students chosen as a U.S. Presidential Scholar for 2013. Only 141 students from across the country are chosen for this distinction, and Farmington High School senior Tyler Hoffmann is among...

Spring –  a season that most of the country eagerly anticipates. Winter clothes are stored away to make room for bright, breezy spring frocks with their light fabrics tiptoeing into the minimalism of summer. However for us South Floridians, spring...