By SARAH PARKER | County Line Reporter When the Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Board of Education approved longtime teachers Bette Ferries’ and Wayne Barrett’s resignations Monday, Superintendent Kelly Burhop said both made their decision based on state-level changes in...
Royall dinner, solo-and-ensemble concert set for Friday
The Royall School District music department will host a spaghetti dinner and bake-sale fundraiser from 5–6:30 p.m. Friday, April 15, in the Royall High School cafeteria. Tickets are $5 apiece, and children 5 and younger can eat for free. At 7 p.m., after the dinner,...
N-O-W Family Reading Night is March 31
Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary School and area public libraries will offer the ninth annual Family Reading Night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 31, at the elementary school. The featured presenter, Bob Gasch, will start the evening, and breakout sessions will...
Royall Education Notes: April meetings to focus on possible school closure
By MARK GRUEN | Royall School District superintendent The Royall School District faces some very difficult decisions. The board of education has directed the administration to investigate the cost of operating the Kendall Elementary School. To discuss all options, the...
Royall Education Notes: State politics has been ‘unsettling’
By MARK GRUEN | Royall School District superintendent The past few weeks have been unsettling and have produced an enormous amount of uncertainty for all of us in Wisconsin. I have been staying as up to date as possible on all of the information and potential changes...
Royall Education Notes: School district receives $192,882 grant
By MARK GRUEN Royall School District superintendent It is hard to believe that we are a month into 2011. It seems like just yesterday that we were worried about starting our second decade of the 20th century. I am sure that a lot of our students do not even remember...
Royall Education Notes: Season of school cancellations is about to begin
By MARK GRUEN | Royall School District superintendent When I started this note last week, I was enjoying our fall weather and looking forward to the holidays. What a difference a week can make in Wisconsin, and now my message seems a little late in regard to the...
Royall Education Notes: This fall, school district receives award but endures financial loss
By MARK GRUEN | Royall School District superintendent A number of you have told me you enjoy keeping up with what is going on at our schools; hence, my columns have been well accepted. This month I hope to share some positive developments in our district as well as...
Royall Education Notes: Panthers generating ‘positive energy’
By MARK GRUEN Royall School District superintendent It is hard to believe that it is already October, although it did seem like fall weather this morning as I was scraping frost off of my windows. Hi, I am Mark Gruen, the new superintendent at Royall. Each month I...
Royall Day of Service set for Oct. 28
Royall High School FFA and Family, Career and Community Leaders of America chapters will hold their first-ever Day of Service at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 28. Students will do an array of service activities, such as raking leaves, cleaning windows and doing general fall...
