The bus who's picking up Debbie Scarbrough's kids just left. First pick up should be right around 8 o'clock.
Just received a call from Debbie Scarbrough and she is sick this morning and will not be able to drive and we have another driver out so we don't have an available sub. We will have to double route for Debbie this morning so as soon as the first bus pulls into school this morning, we will send it out to pick up her students. I will send a message out with an approximate time. Thanks.
Good Evening! This is a message to let families of our Preschool-6th grade students know there will be baseball and softball sign-ups, Saturday, February 18 from 11:00a.m.-1:00p.m. Sign-ups will be in the front entrance to the Junior High Gym. Thank you!
Seniors: Herff Jones will be at Western on Tuesday, March 7th during 1st period to pass out Graduation items. They will then go to the CTC to pass out items to the CTC students. If you owe a balance, this must be paid before you will receive your items. If you need to know your balance, please see or call Mrs. Schuler. If you are unable to pay by March 7th, the items will be stored safely at the school until the balance is paid. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Schuler.
Board Meeting 2/13 @ 6pm in Room 101
Good Evening! This is a message to let families of our Preschool-6th grade students know there will be baseball and softball sign-ups tomorrow, Saturday, February 11 from 11:00a.m.-12:00p.m. Sign-ups will be in the front entrance to the Junior High Gym. Thank you!
We have a few reports of trees down on some of our county roads so we have a couple of buses running the routes backwards in order to give the county time with the trees cleaned up so if your kids are a little later than normal or even a few minutes earlier, it's because we are trying to avoid the trees and give the county time to get them cleaned up.
February 16 was scheduled to be an early release day for students with the P/T conferences to follow from 1-8. We are still having the P/T conferences as scheduled but 2/16 will be a PD day for staff so students will not report that day.
Bus five has a mechanical issue and we are sending another bus to pick up her students so students who ride bus five will probably be getting home around 15 to 20 minutes later than normal but they are on their way. Penny May will be there in just a few minutes to switch the kids over to her bus. Thanks.
Penny May’s bus is running about 30 minutes late this morning. We just received the notification.
There’s no need prolonging the inevitable and causing you guys to have to wonder what’s going on. All of the roads are bad from bottom to top and it is snowing pretty hard on the west end of the district so I’m going to go ahead and canceled for today.
We will be starting out on a two hour delay this morning. There is a good likelihood that we will have to close, but we will start with a two hour delay and go from there. We have snow on top of ice and it’s continuing to snow a little now so I will reassess everything by around 730.
I just got back from checking Lapperell and Drybone. They were both in worse shape than they were this morning. Lapperel was probably about a slick as I’ve ever seen it so we are going to have to cancel. If you live on the main road or on the bottom of these county roads, you’ll see that they are in good shape. I’ll be the first to say that Lapperell and dry bone and Grassy are all good at the bottom, but they are not on the hills and unfortunately almost all of our buses have to travel at least one of these hills during the course of the route, and it’s not possible to just skip them. Therefore, we will be closing today.
We are going to be on a two hour delay this morning. If you haven’t been out on a hill, it’s impossible to understand how slick the roads really are. There’s a layer of ice under the snow. One of my windshield wipers are still stuck to the windshield as we speak.
This is one of the tougher calls I’ve had to make regarding weather. The forecast has snow starting around 4 AM for us. Different forecasts have different temperatures and the temperature is what’s going to determine whether it’s rain or snow. I’m going to go ahead and call a two hour delay in order to give you guys time to make arrangements for tomorrow morning, rather than possibly calling it at 5:30 or six in the morning. Tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock I may look like a dummy who just wasted two hours and inconvenienced you but I’d rather do that than to try to squeeze it in and have bad roads for our buses and our kids to drive on so we will be operating on a two hour delay tomorrow.
Student Run Credit Union will be Wednesday, January 25th during breakfast. Thanks!
We will be good to go today after our 2 hour delay. Sorry kids!
I am revising the posting for our school nurse position. Everything remains the same except the application deadline with be April 1st with the expected start date of August 1st, 2023. I apologize for the change but starting on April 1st would likely severely limit applicants since there would not be summer pay due to a limited number of days worked during the 2022-23 school year (stretch pay wouldn't apply). We will train whoever we hire between August 1st and the start of school. I put a screenshot of the requirements from the ODE website.
Mr. Brewster has been out checking the roads and we will be on a two-hour delay today, January 23. He has been trying to make the call but had no service to get it through.
I apologize for the late notice. We will be on two hour delay. I’ve been trying to send a call for last 20 minutes, but haven’t had phone service so Miss Thompson should be making it. Roads were in good condition 30 minutes ago, but have ve deteriorated so we will try to our delay this morning to see if we can at least have some daylight.