On Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020, Newton County Elementary School will host the following events:
• a Uniform Swap from 3:30-5:30 in the Cafeteria
• a PTO Meeting at 5:30 in the Library
• a Wax Museum at 6:00 in the Danny Lindsley Gymnasium
• a Third Grade Gate Parent Meeting at 6:30 in the Library.
When we moved here in 2000, Mr. Rodney Tadlock, then Principal of Newton County High School, hired me to teach English and Biblical History. I enjoyed my time at NCHS, until I retired in 2009.
Union SEEK students showed what they knew at the recent East Central Talented and Gifted Quiz Bowl competition. Students from surrounding counties all competed to answer rapid-fire questions in language arts, math, social studies, science, and general knowledge categories.
“Are you friends with everybody?” my daughter asked me, laughing.
We were walking through Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse in Meridian, where I worked at the time. My daughters were with me in the store and I was greeting people as walked through.
“You know everybody,” she said.
East Central Community College art instructor Jeffrey Hodges has been named the college’s 2019 Humanities Instructor of the Year and will present “Forms and Narratives in Art,” a special program beginning at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in the Vickers Fine Arts Center auditorium on the Decatur campus.
Newton High School hosted the district tournament this week. The finals were held on Friday night.
Newton's girls basketball team defeated Union 52-43, while the boys fell to Philadelphia 71-51.
Here are highlights from the games:
Sophomore Emilee Tadlock of Forest and biology instructor Curt Skipper of Decatur, who also serves as Chair of the Science Division, will represent East Central Community College in Decatur at the 33rd annual Higher Education Appreciation Day: Working for Academic Excellence (HEADWAE) program scheduled Monday, March 2, at the State Capitol in J
The East Central Community College basketball teams got back in the win column with a sweep of the teams from Meridian Community College Thursday, Feb. 13, in Brackeen-Wood Gym on the campus in Decatur.
*Fred Allen Barfoot remembers that his two older brothers Jack and John began their school years at New Ireland School, which was located near his Barfoot grandparents’ farm. When Fred Allen began school at Union, his family lived on the NW corner of Decatur and Willow Streets.
East Central Community College will officially open its new Warrior Hall football operations center with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, on the campus in Decatur.
The 12,300-square-foot facility is located just outside the north end zone of Warrior Field at Bailey Stadium.
