The Greater Jasper School District has a new assistant superintendent. After being the sole superintendent of the school system for several years now, Dr. Tracy Lorey will be joined by Todd Hitchcock by next semester. When Lorey was promoted from Curriculum Director to Superintendent after former Superintendent Dr. Jerrill Vandeventer retired, she promoted Jasper High…
The Northeast Dubois School Board in Tuesday night’s meeting heard from a parent alleging that one of the school’s coaches has bullied her student-athlete daughter by having a volleyball “thrown off of her, deliberately by the coach on three different occasions.” The parent, Marsha Archer, claimed that her daughter, who is in sixth grade at…
Bob Rhoades, vice-president of Friends of Otwell, the group that is trying to get a charter school placed in Otwell, reported Ball State University has rejected their application for a charter school. Although hopes were high the first application would be approved and the new school fast-tracked to open this fall for classes, that is…
Matt Crane contributed to this report. Budget tightening could force the Dubois County Airport Authority to choose the least expensive option for a 500-foot runway extension. Nick Isenberg, with Indianapolis-based Woolpert, the firm guiding the airport through the extension process, told the authority he had good news and bad news to report from the Federal…
Another county school corporation is reporting lower kindergarten enrollment numbers. According to Southeast Dubois School Corporation Superintendent Rick Allen, the recent kindergarten roundup was 94. With a graduating class of 108, the corporation will be down 17 students. A drop of 17 students for Southeast means a decrease of around $78,000.00 in state funding based…
AdvancED, an international accreditation company, approved Jasper School Corporations 2016 accreditation, giving the school another five years until its next review. AdvancED is an external group that reviews members schools and corporations. From their website: AdvancED is the largest community of education professionals in the world. We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts rigorous,…
Plans for the 2016 Chalkwalk in downtown Jasper are in full swing. Corina Mack, Program Coordinator and Technical Assistant for the Jasper Arts Department revealed some additions to the popular event during Tuesday night’s Jasper Community Arts Commission meeting. “I received info from ‘Arts for Learning Indiana’ out of Indianapolis. They have an exciting opportunity…
Dubois County CARES, or Coalition for Adolescent Resilience and Empowerment Strategies, held the first of four meetings planned for April at the Northeast Dubois Middle School. Two years in the making, the newly announced organization was formed to deal with alcohol and drug use among students in our schools. Seeded two years ago by a…
Greater Jasper School Corporation is concerned about the lower number of students registering for kindergarten. In the Greater Jasper School Board meeting Monday night, Superintendent Dr. Tracy Lorey reported the kindergarten school roundup held in February had 110 enroll in Fifth Street and 77 in Ireland. She said they had expected 220 to enroll. By…
The Utility Service Board in Jasper is taking additional steps to dismantle the Jasper Power Plant. In Monday night’s meeting, Electric Committee Chair Wayne Schuetter made several proposals and asked the board to approve each one individually. The electric committee met earlier this month and examined the options for the power plant after receiving several bids to…
