Archive for the ‘Schools’ Category

Drug Testing at Putnam County Schools?

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Quite possibly, yes.
At the last Putnam County Board of Education meeting, the Drug Endangered Children Task Force proposed a program to drug test children in our schools. This is an opt-in program, meaning that for your child to be tested, you will have to sign up saying you’d like your child to be […]

Teays Valley Elementary School

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Putnam County will have a new elementary school opening next fall for the 2008-2009 school year. Teays Valley Elementary will be made up of students from West Teays and Scott Teays and will feed into the Hurricane School system.
This has been a cause of some stress for the Scott Teays students as that […]

Get Your “School’s Closed” Alerts

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

WSAZ.com has a new feature that emails school closings directly to your inbox. I thought that was really nice, but I’m up early anyway and thought I’d just check in for myself.
This morning with our flood watches, I realize how this service could help me. I’ve been caught unaware by early school dismissals […]