Audience’s excitement lifts orchestra
Palm Beach Interactive – STUART The matinee was lively even before a note sounded. The sense of joy was infectious. An air of casual camaraderie buzzed through the Lyric Theatre. Among the full house were grade-school members of the Treasure Coast Youth Orchestra, who

Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation Names Grand-Prize Winners
MSN MoneyCentral – Child Grade School City / State —– —– —– —– Roma Amernath E.R. Hughes Elementary New Hartford, 4

Take heart! Celeb valentines on way
Boston Herald – Ah, grade school. For one hour every Feb. 14, everybody was feeling the love. It was mandatory to slip a Spider-Man or Strawberry Shortcake card in every classmate s valentine s box, regardless of whether you liked them, hated them or felt numb

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Winona Daily News – Anna Pardun was a healthy child, until fourth grade. Since then, her health has cmplicated her life. No stranger to the emergency room, Pardun has had mononucleosis six times starting when she was in grade school. As she got older, her health

Antonia alive
Washington Times – A beloved grade school reading assignment will burst into three-dimensional life tonight when stage director Scott Schwartz leads a free reading of “My Antonia” at Ford’s Theatre (511 10th Street NW). The audience will witness a theatrical re

Man arrested after slamming truck into train
KESQ News – We’re always taught to stop, look and listen when crossing railroad tracks and that’s not just a grade school lesson. Banning Police found the Ford Ranger pick up truck after a Union Pacific train rammed into Monday, night. No one was inside the truck

BGS spelling bee winners advance to county competition
Benton Evening News – The tension and excitement mounted at Benton Grade School as the field of competitors decreased, resulting in spelling bee winners in grade five- through eight. Instructor Phyllis Maragni said 10 fifth-graders, nine sixth-graders, and four students

Students need lessons in life
Badger Herald – Many students go through grade school, especially high school, with the notion that they are prepared for what lies ahead in the following years. Once stepping foot away from home, however, students are faced with real life dilemmas and problems that

In a Bottle, the Scent of a Mouse
New York Times – Wines sometimes do smell like my grade-school pal s mouse cage, and this is not a good thing. The new third edition of the indispensable Oxford Companion to Wine notes in its entry for mousy that once this aroma is detected, it

To students, ‘Character Counts’
Herald News – Zaria Zaragoza, 6, (right) a first-grader at Taft Grade School, makes a “Character Counts” bracelet with her fifth-grade mentor Courtney Lovelace, 10, Friday at Taft School in Lockport. Character Counts is a program that teaches the six pillars of

Where were you when
Newburyport Daily News – This news prompted me to call Jack, my best friend through grade school, high school and still a friend over 60 years later. We all felt that the invasion was a turning point which would soon end the war. On April 13, 1945, I was getting dressed for

Homer schools plan referendum
Batavia Sun – A request to float a $25.6 million bond issue to pay for more classrooms for the Homer Grade School District’s ever-growing crop of students will be on the ballot April 17. The school board voted last week to hold the referendum to fund building

Still Life With Husband
USA Today – Her college-age son, Chad, and his old grade-school friend, Garrett, misperceive what is going on and see serious consequences. Though it’s an erotic thriller, Be Mine also is the story of a perimenopausal mother and wife who mulls everything, from

School District’s oldest building will be renovated this summer
Muscatine Journal – Grade school students will begin learning about the five human senses and weather in kindergarten. By the time they are in fifth grade, they will study nutrition, scientific concepts of flight and designing environmental solutions. High school

Union County trustees vote to consolidate high schools
Spartanburg Herald-Journal – In November 2006, the board approved an Installment Purchase Financing plan for close to $44 million to renovate schools and build two others: a new sixth- through eighth-grade school in Union and a new kindergarten through eighth-grade school in

Flu hits schools in area
Aberdeen News – Fourteen percent of Mobridge’s grade school students were absent Thursday and Friday, said Principal Brian Liedtke. Numbers for Monday were not compiled yet. Webster School reported its peak of illness-related absences occurred in mid- to late January

Grade school boys threaten teacher
Oregonian – Three Mooberry Elementary School second-grade boys caught with pocket knives at school last Thursday morning, apparently also made threats to harm their teacher. A third-grader reported the youth at around 9:15 a.m. Thursday to school officials, who

School tries to avoid shadow of FCAT grade
ThatsRacin.com – School tries to avoid shadow of FCAT gradeI may stand for incomplete, but at Lauderdale Manors Elementary, it means war. After two years of getting Fs from the state based on students’ FCAT scores and cutting all extracurricular activities to

OG moving up in city wrestling ranks
Argus Leader – Both wrestlers have been wrestling since they started grade school. “I was at 103 and Jacob was at 112 in the eighth grade,” Weber said, “but he’s grown a lot since then.” Weber placed eighth at the state Class A meet last year, even though he tore his

Valley Briefing
Beacon News – When not volunteering in the classroom, Davis helps children with literacy at the Big Rock Grade School and assists with activities at her church. Elburn Kaneland to stage 1-act performances Kaneland High School will present An Evening of One Acts

United Pentecostals make a difference
Journal Review – Sharp runs a small classroom of accelerated, advanced students, catering to each student s individual need, from grade school to high school. God has blessed us, Sharp said. We have kids that have graduated and gone into college. They are

Young gym rats
Whittier Daily News – The Little Gym offers parent/child (4 months to 3 years), pre-school/kindergarten (3-6 years) and grade school (6-12 years) programs. It also has dance, karate and sports skills programs. Michelle Williams of Sierra Madre watched her son, Henry

Single no more: Choose the metro Detroiters you d like us to help
Detroit Free Press – And another said: there are not many young, single and attractive men walking the halls of the Catholic grade school where I work. No matter their age, occupation or history, the singles who wrote to us have one thing in common: They don t

New school will provide more learning opportunities
Caspar Star-Tribune – That posed a problem for Natrona County High School, which is currently a 10th through 12th grade school. “We didn’t have the space for ninth grade at that high school,” Antrim said, adding that the district also doesn’t want to have schools that have

A world of learning
Belleville News-Democrat – Nick Bauer felt a special connection at a Mother Teresa orphanage in India. It wasn’t just seeing the children marvel at American candy and toys. There was something deeper. “I went to (grade) school at St. Teresa’s (in Belleville), and here I was in

Obituary: Lorraine Colosimo / ‘Coffee Lady’ a fixture at Dormont
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Colosimo grew up on the South Side, attending grade school at St. Michael’s, but she lived in Beechview for 57 years, said her son, John Colosimo of Mt. Lebanon. She left high school to work and was a saleswoman at the former Frank & Seder’s

In the neighborhood
Journal & Sunday Journal – For Collins, each of his patients are filled with human potential. And as a father of three daughters one in college, one in high school and one in grade school Collins says he understands the parents worries and makes a point not to

Don t let chidren grow up too fast
Nashua Telegraph – Your grade school child masters the multiplication tables, your preteen takes an interest in world events and your 16-year-old startles you with a selfless act of empathy and kindness, each of which turns out to be a blip on the screen, an illusion

Plight of homeless brings aid campaign from local siblings
Kankakee Daily Journal – They live outside Bourbonnais, but Ally’s Shabbona Grade School teacher, Kindra Arwood, suggested that they should write to Bourbonnais Mayor Bob Latham. It said:: Dear Mayor, Last weekend I went to Chicago me and my brother went by and saw people on

Mississippi majesty
1960 Sun – That question was not a grade school hypothetical but a reality for Ken and Tina Murphy the day before Hurricane Katrina was to strike their Gulf Coast home. Ken Murphy made it out with a partial stack of photographs he had been working on for five

Stroebel named Da Vinci’s new head of school
Courier News – Stroebel is head of middle school at Sycamore School in Indianapolis, Ind., a pre-K through eighth-grade school for academically gifted and talented students. He will succeed Michael Schuler, who is serving as Da Vinci’s interim head of school for

Mississippi majesty
1960 Sun – That question was not a grade school hypothetical but a reality for Ken and Tina Murphy the day before Hurricane Katrina was to strike their Gulf Coast home. Ken Murphy made it out with a partial stack of photographs he had been working on for five

Billy Strayhorn’s lush life
Louisville Courier-Journal – He began playing piano while in grade school and by high school was well known for his skills. Within a year of graduating high school, he had written a successful musical that toured throughout Pennsylvania. He wrote several classical pieces while

School tries to avoid shadow of FCAT grade
ThatsRacin.com – School tries to avoid shadow of FCAT gradeI may stand for incomplete, but at Lauderdale Manors Elementary, it means war. After two years of getting Fs from the state based on students’ FCAT scores and cutting all extracurricular activities to

To students, ‘Character Counts’
Herald News – Zaria Zaragoza, 6, (right) a first-grader at Taft Grade School, makes a “Character Counts” bracelet with her fifth-grade mentor Courtney Lovelace, 10, Friday at Taft School in Lockport. Character Counts is a program that teaches the six pillars of

Make it an organic Valentine’s Day
Idaho Statesman – Remember in grade school when you made Valentines? Maybe it was just the thrill of young love, but part of the pleasure was that each card had a personal message. Try that again. Be creative. Reuse old cards or break out and reuse other things such

Brussels coach get career win No. 300
1960 Sun – King, who graduated from Alton High in 1967 and resides in Godfrey, got his start as a coach at Saint Ambrose Grade School in 1971. Since then, he s coached at Assumption, Marquette Catholic, Rosary, Mo., and now Brussels. Through the years at those

Billy Strayhorn’s lush life
Louisville Courier-Journal – He began playing piano while in grade school and by high school was well known for his skills. Within a year of graduating high school, he had written a successful musical that toured throughout Pennsylvania. He wrote several classical pieces while

Plight of homeless brings aid campaign from local siblings
Kankakee Daily Journal – They live outside Bourbonnais, but Ally’s Shabbona Grade School teacher, Kindra Arwood, suggested that they should write to Bourbonnais Mayor Bob Latham. It said:: Dear Mayor, Last weekend I went to Chicago me and my brother went by and saw people on

Springfield private school calls off classes over illness
St. Paul Pioneer Press – SPRINGFIELD, Minn. – St. Raphael’s School canceled classes Friday because about a quarter of its students were out sick. As of noon Thursday, 18 of 62 grade-school students were out of school due to sickness or went home early, while two staff

Cold forces schools to close
Pantagraph – Mary s grade school; and Delavan schools. The mercury stood at minus 8 degrees at 6 a.m. today and wasn t expected to rise above 9 degrees during the course of the day. The National Weather Service also expected the wind to pick up, bringing the

From The Archives
New Orleans Times-Picayune – BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Leaders of the state-run school district in New Orleans defended the district’s existence Monday as senators said the system hasn’t improved education in the city after Hurricane Katrina and has added more bureaucracy to

Small crowd, many questions about meth
Dunn County News – What s most disturbing is we are seeing (meth use) in high school, middle school and grade school age children, Cragin said. The manufacture and use of methamphetamine often is generational and runs in families, Coyne noted. The anhydrous ammonia

The pace of competitive skating is set to quicken in Alaska
Anchorage Daily News – They wear long-bladed skates made specifically for the sport, and even the smaller, grade-school skaters have learned the leaned-in position that can help them gain so much speed. Last Saturday, the club held its monthly races, with competitors going

Sports Coverage
Slate – There must be hundreds of “big ol’ dorks” and other misfits who were potentially stunning quarterbacks who were screened out by image selection as early as grade school. Only a few Doug Fluties who defy the image squeak through to accomplish something

Manning Gets Advice From Marino
San Diego Channel – For Manning, it’s a relationship that dates to his grade-school days. “I had two favorite quarterbacks growing up,” Manning said. “My dad was my favorite, and then once he retired in 1984, Dan Marino took over as my favorite quarterback. He was just

School tries to avoid shadow of FCAT grade
San Jose Mercury News – School tries to avoid shadow of FCAT gradeI may stand for incomplete, but at Lauderdale Manors Elementary, it means war. After two years of getting Fs from the state based on students’ FCAT scores and cutting all extracurricular activities to