Spell of v-i-c-t-o-r-y

February 6, 2020

It’s time for a certain segment of Warren County’s population to put on thinking caps. The champions of school-level spelling bees across the county have been crowned. Now, they will gather to determine who among them is best. The annual Times Observer Northwest Bank Warren County Spelling Bee will be held Thursday, Feb. 6, at Beaty-Warren Middle School. A total of 17 spellers will compete and 15 alternates have been named. The anticipated competitors are: ¯ Beaty-Warren Middle School — Elias Eastman (8th), Bobby Johnson (7th), Braden Thomson (6th), Macy Winicki (8th), ...

‘I love this school’

February 1, 2020

School choice is working for Tidioute Community Charter School. On Friday, the school celebrated School Choice Week with an assembly and a dance. Several students stepped up the microphone to talk about why they appreciate school choice and what they love about TCCS. The themes were ...

Building suspense

January 31, 2020

For the next year, and the fourth year in a row, Warren schools will keep the Koehle Cup. It wasn’t just the Sawyer Mohney show, but the Warren Area High School senior played a key role in the competition and in the discussion after. The Koehle Cup is awarded to the team champion at ...

St. Joes celebrates the nation

January 30, 2020

St. Joseph Catholic School is celebrating Catholic Schools Week — Learn, Serve, Lead, Succeed. “This week we recognize the important role that Catholic elementary and secondary schools across the country play in providing an educational and spiritual foundation for the success of their ...

Board mulls participation fund changes

January 29, 2020

For most of a decade, booster groups throughout Warren County have been covering funding shortfalls for sports programs. During years of state-level education spending cuts in the early 2010s, Warren County School District cut the amount of funding provided to sports. The district instituted a policy by which students participating in sports and other co-curricular activities are required to pay a registration fee. Those dollars do not and were not intended to cover the shortfall in the budget. Booster groups and other community organizations have been able to make sure the sports ...

School Board mulls LERTA, audit results

January 28, 2020

There are LERTA proposals and then there are LERTA proposals. Warren County has asked Warren County School District to approve and join in a county-wide Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance program that would give individuals and entities that develop property a break on their property taxes for years. The City of Warren is part of that proposal, but the request on Monday was a much less significant change. “The city has had a commercial LERTA in effect since 1985,” Building Code Official Terry Williams said to the finance committee. “The current LERTA is a ...