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Tweet The Highlands Elementary community is in mourning this week at news of the passing of Debra Utterback, a cornerstone of the school who served as its kindergarten teacher for the past 24 years and had long ties to the Prairie Village area. She died Thursday, April 19, at the age of 58. Friends and [...]
Tweet A group of Highlands Elementary students, parents and alums decided that instead of just kicking back on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, they’d do some good work. More than 50 people from the Highlands community gathered at Harvesters, the community food bank, on Monday and helped assemble 1,500 “BackSnacks” — backpacks full of food that [...]
Tweet So…big apologies to anyone who showed up at the Highlands PTA Bake and Lemonade sale yesterday at our urging. The event got postponed due to weather. But students, families and staff will be at the school from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. today selling goodies and raising funds for the relief efforts in Joplin, Reading and [...]
Tweet Three of the four candidates in the race for the at-large seat on the Shawnee Mission School Board will move on from the March 1 primary to the April 5 general election. But two of the four primary candidates must be eliminated. Such is the logic-problem conundrum posed by the wording of Kansas statute [...]
Tweet The Wichita Eagle earlier this week released its rankings of Kansas schools based on state assessment data, and local schools fare relatively well — though not as well as some of their counterparts in Blue Valley. SM East came in at number 40 out of the 375 Kansas high schools in the newspaper’s rankings, [...]
Tweet “Your word is ‘champion’” “Champion. Could you use it in sentence?” “Mission Valley seventh grader Anna Molteni is the champion of the Johnson County Spelling Bee.” Well — co-champion, technically. Molteni tied with Zach Winterman, a seventh grader at St. Michael the Archangel, in the county’s spelling bee last weekend, earning her a spot [...]
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