SCHOOLS

Closing and preparing

Fort Recovery schools will be closed beginning Tuesday. Jay School Corporation has released an “initial concept” of how it would handle a potential long-term closure. After-school activities, field trips and extracurriculars have also been suspended for 30 days.

All in for state

Jay County will take three high school teams and three middle school teams to Indianapolis on Saturday for the Indiana VEX Robotics State Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Jay gets B grade

Jay School Corporation was rated above average by Indiana Department of Education in its annual school accountability report for the 2018-19 school year, the same grade it has received every year since 2015. The report was released in full Wednesday.

Making progress

Construction work at JCHS building is on track for consolidation as junior-senior high in the fall.

Robotics teams headed to Indy for competition

A successful weekend of competition has Jay County Robotics headed for the state championship on March 7 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Groups, teachers receive funding

Local organizations and teachers will receive grants totaling nearly $300,000.

Monday, Feb. 24, 2020

Patriot pedestrians

Pedestrian.

S. Wells busing could change

Southern Wells Community Schools may stop providing bus service to Pennville area students next fall.

Communication is key to change

Superintendent Jeremy Gulley and Jay School Board have done their best to make the coming changes as painless as possible.

Getting a seat at the table

Boggs working to create new student-city council

Prepping for fall

It’s February, but Jay Schools is already intensely focused on next fall.

FRHS farce

A hero on the run. A woman with a gun. And an ending with a twist.

Portland native makes gift to IU

A family foundation established by a Portland native has made a $16 million gift to the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in Bloomington.

Former teacher donates $1.52 million

At a basketball game Jan. 10, Greg LeFevre asked everyone in the gym who had been taught by Ron Shoemaker to stand.
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