Education

New support staff contract approved

The support staff and the school board have agreed upon a new contract. The new, three-year contract was unanimously approved at Monday night’s special meeting of the board. The Warren County Education Support Professionals Association represents aides, secretaries, cafeteria workers, custodians, and maintenance employees. The agreement is retroactive to June 31, 2019 — the date the previous contract expired — and includes 2 percent annual raises. The terms of the old agreement remained in place through the negotiations. According to a board release, the previous ...

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School Board mulls substitute pay increase

Warren County School District is looking into the cost of not having a teacher in front of a classroom. Among its budget considerations this year, the school board will consider paying its substitute teachers more. During the Personnel Committee, Anne Ward, who has been working as a substitute in the district for 20 years, said she is paid less per day this year than she was in 2005. “Back then, when the district employed subs, the pay was 70 cents more,” she said. “Is this the only reason for the severe shortage of substitutes? Probably not.” But, paying more might help ...

Trail of Treats

The long line of treaters on Saturday included lots of famous television and movie stars like Scooby-Doo, Willy Wonka and even Freddy Krueger. They all wound their way through the hallways of Beaty Warren Middle School in search of treats and fun. Trail of Treats was held at the school on ...

‘IT’S A BLAST’

Last year on a chilly overcast October Friday Tristan Shepherd and his seventh-grade friends and classmates sat inside the school waiting for their turn. This chilly overcast Friday that turn came— it was Rocket Day — “The best thing ever,” Shepherd and his friends proclaimed. Friday ...

Create the world

A group of young artists have their works on display in the library. The YMCA Art Club has a show hanging in the Wetmore Gallery at Warren Public Library through the end of October. The club meets once a week for five weeks, an hour at a time. “They work on pieces while sharing the ...