Western Local School District

Primary/Elementary news Jan. 27th-31at Monday Jan. 27th Quiz Bowl until 4:00 Musical practice 3-4:30 Tuesday Jan. 28th Lead 4th & 5th Musical Practice 3-4:30 Cross Categorical Field Trip Wednesday Jan. 29th Student Run Credit Union Lead 6th Musical Practice 3-4:30 Thursday Jan. 30th Lead 3rd Musical Practice 3-4:30 Sports News JH Boys & Girls Basketball Monday @ Oak Hill 5:30 Thursday home vs. South Gallia 5:30 Boys HS Basketball Tuesday home vs. Eastern 6:00 Friday home vs. Oak Hill Senior Night 6:00 Saturday home vs. North Adams 6:00 Girls HS Basketball Monday home vs Oak Hill 6:00 Wednesday home vs. East 6:00 Thursday @ South Gallia 6:00 Saturday @ Oak Hill 11:00 Youth Sports Monday 5th/6th 3-4:30 3rd boys 4:30-6:00 Tuesday 4th boys 3-4:30 6th boys 4:30-6:00 EG 5th boys 6-7:30 EG Wednesday 5th/6th girls 3-4:30 3rd boys 4:30-6:00 Thursday 3rd/4th girls 3-4:30 EG 4th boys 4:30-6:00 EG 5th Boys 6-7:30 EG Friday 3rd/4th girls 3-4:30 6th Boys 4:30-6:00 EG Saturday Tournaments

We had a bus call off this morning. Jessica will driving for Brandis and will be running about 15 minutes behind normal time. Possibly 20. Sorry for the inconvenience.

7th & 8th Grade Spelling Bee Information. If your child is interested in being a part of this they need to see their English teacher to sign up. Thank you!

We will be having school at regular time tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing everybody, bright and early!!

With a forecasted actual low of -6° tomorrow morning we will be canceling. It looks like smooth sailing after tomorrow!! If anybody is without electric or needs a place to warm up, we will have several staff members here tomorrow to make sure you have a place to go.

We will be canceling school on Tuesday, January 21st due to extremely cold morning temperatures. It probably goes without need for explanation, but with windchill and temperature values as low as this, any significant delay in a bus pick up or a bus getting hung up in a snowy turn around and not being able to contact the kids waiting outside is a major concern.

Tomorrow will be regular time for school. We will be running the same roads as we did today. Meeting times will be the same except for two hours earlier.

This message is for Western CTC students! Western CTC students will be dismissed to come to the high school for the Pep Rally tomorrow at 1:15PM. Pep Rally starts at 2:00PM. We will have a bus there to get the bus riders at 1:15PM as well to bus them to the Pep Rally. If you have any questions call the high school.

Last message. I promise. Unless it snows tonight. We will not be running Hackelshin, The Township Road part of Leeth Creek, Viar Road, Beekman Ridge, Woods Rd, Davis Road, and Green Ridge past the fire tower. The bus meeting times will be the same as today for those roads.

I'm going to do something that I have never done before, but I feel like this is a situation where I can justify it. We are going to be on a two hour delay tomorrow. This situation is a little different because of the conditions of driveways and the fact that some parents are not able to get down to the end of the road to wait on the bus with their kids. I want you to use your judgment as a parent and if you feel like it is too cold for your child to stand out and wait for the bus in the morning then you can send a note in with them on Thursday and they will be excused. We will only be able to excuse them if you send in a note stating that they were not there because of the cold temperatures. I don't want to cancel tomorrow because we have a lot of kids that need to be in school tomorrow and I don't want to take away that opportunity. Tomorrow will be a judgment call for you as a parent on whether or not you send your child. Again, in order for the absence to be excuse you need to send in a note with them when they return to school.

If you were scheduled for an attendance meeting tomorrow morning at 9 AM at the high school, it is being rescheduled due to the 2 hour delay. The letter's that you received do state this, but we wanted to send out a reminder just in case. We will have someone contact you with a new meeting date. Thank you.

We will have our LAST two hour delay tomorrow!! The forecasted low is 1 degree tomorrow morning. I apologize for the inconvenience. We will have staff here at normal time in the morning for anyone who needs to drop their students off at regular time.

Bus 15 is running 15 minutes late. Please let your kids know that they can wait 15 minutes to go outside.

Reminder: Our annual College Credit Plus information meeting will be this evening at 6:00 pm in room 101. Please enter at the front High school entrance. This meeting is important for students in grades 6-11 who are interested in earning college credit next school year. Thank you!

Tuesday 1/14. We will be operating on a two hour delay Here are the approximate meeting times and another list of roads we will not run tomorrow. We won't run the following roads: Woods Rd - meet at 8:30 Beekman Ridge - meet at 9:05 Tater Knob - meet 9:20. Davis Rd - meet 8:55 Turner - meet Nipgen at 8:50 Green Ridge - can't navigate the turnaround because there are cars there. Meet at fire tower at 9:30. Viar Rd - meet at Leeth Creek at 9:18 Owens Rd - 9:17 Hackelshin- meet at Township hall at 9:20. We won't run the township Road part of Leeth Creek If a bus does not run your road, you will not be counted absent tomorrow.

Tuesday 1/14. We will be operating on a two hour delay Here are the approximate meeting times and another list of roads we will not run tomorrow. We won't run the following roads: Woods Rd - meet at 8:30 Beekman Ridge - meet at 9:05 Tater Knob - meet 9:20. Davis Rd - meet 8:55 Turner - meet Nipgen at 8:50 Green Ridge - can't navigate the turnaround because there are cars there. Meet at fire tower at 9:30. Viar Rd - meet at Leeth Creek at 9:18 Owens Rd - 9:17 Hackelshin- meet at Township hall at 9:20. We won't run the township Road part of Leeth Creek If a bus does not run your road, you will not be counted absent tomorrow.

I will send out the meeting times for the ends of the roads we are running later this evening once I get a complete list rather than sending out a bunch of individual messages

We will be operating on a two hour delay for tomorrow in order to give our student drivers and our bus drivers daylight just in case of re-freezing and also for the bus turnarounds. We will not pick up or drop off on the following roads tomorrow. Red Bridge, McCoy, Beekman Ridge, Tater Knob, Stewart Hollow, Fields Hollow, Davis Rd, Turner Rd, Hackelshin, Owens Rd, Viar Rd. There could be a couple of additions to this list. I know this is an inconvenience, but we can't take a chance on getting a driver stuck in a turnaround tomorrow. These are the roads the drivers wanted to give an extra day. We will check all these tomorrow and hopefully we'll be able to run on Tuesday. If you need to know the time to meet the bus at the end of these roads, text me at 740-222-311 and I will get you a time. Thank you.

For grades 6-11 COLLEGE CREDIT PLUS: Required Annual Meeting - If your son or daughter would be interested in earning college credit next year during the 2025-26 school year, please attend the CCP Informational meeting on January 14, 2025 at 6:00 pm in room 101.

Here is the Homecoming Picture form. This is also available in the hallway by the high school office and Jamie will have plenty on the day of as well. Pictures are from 6:00PM- 7:00PM in the High School Gym on January 18th.