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December 2, 2014
- Although a Nov. 21 Baldwin school board special meeting was called to consider an offer for the closed Vinland Elementary School, board members signaled a willingness to sell other piece of surplus property.
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By Elvyn Jones
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November 24, 2014
- A grant awarded Rainbow Experience Preschool last week is a step toward big changes for the 51-year-old Baldwin City nonprofit.
Jamie Davis, chairperson of the Rainbow Experience Preschool Board of Directors, said Rainbow received a $15,000 grant from the LiveWell Lawrence Coalition at a Friday banquet that is to be used to help pay for new playground equipment, which she said would be placed to the west of the preschool at the northwest corner of Sixth and Baker streets.
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By Elvyn Jones
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November 24, 2014
- Seventh-grader Tate Smith sees it as no big deal that he and his Baldwin Junior High School lunch buddies were featured on People Magazine’s online edition.
“Look, that was only one magazine,” he said last Thursday.
Jordan Barth, Jason Brown, Aubrey Dechant and Ethan Eckman, BJHS seventh-graders who eat regularly with their classmate as part of a lunch buddy program, shared his relaxed attitude for their sudden media fame.
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By Elvyn Jones
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November 23, 2014
- At a special meeting Friday, the Baldwin school board tabled a decision on what is now two offers for the closed Vinland Elementary School.
In doing so, the board asked for information at its December meeting on “realistic”uses the district could make of the Vinland building and the cost of purchasing and setting up portable classrooms.
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By Elvyn Jones
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November 21, 2014
- At a special meeting Friday, the Baldwin school board tabled a decision on what is now two offers for the closed Vinland Elementary School.
In doing so, the board asked for information at its December meeting on “realistic”uses the district could make of the Vinland building and the cost of purchasing and setting up portable classrooms.
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By Elvyn Jones
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November 18, 2014
- Unusual circumstances prompted Katherine Cook to select the classic “Guys and Dolls” as this fall’s Baldwin High School musical.
“It’s a guys’ show,” said Cook, the musical’s faculty director. “It has lots of great guy parts. Most years, we struggle to get boys out for the musical, but this year we have all these boys who can sing and dance and this has a lot of song-and-dance numbers.”
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By Elvyn Jones
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03:00 p.m., November 18, 2014 Updated 02:59 p.m.
- The Baldwin USD 348 Board of Education will meet Friday to discuss an offer to buy the closed Vinland Elementary School.
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By Elvyn Jones
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November 18, 2014
- In a presentation to the school board Monday, Baldwin High School Principal Rob McKim said the best way to improve ACT scores in the district was to enroll more students in the high school’s more challenging courses.
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By Elvyn Jones
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November 18, 2014
- The Baldwin school board took time Monday to start discussion on how the district would respond to a cut in the amount in budgeted state aid for the current school year.
Superintendent Paul Dorothy said there remained a lot of uncertainty concerning possible responses to the state’s woeful financial picture and it wasn’t yet known if the state would be forced to reduce funding for K-12 education.
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By Elvyn Jones
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November 11, 2014
- Although there is as yet nothing on the table, the Baldwin USD 348 Board of Education has indicated a willingness to listen to what an interested buyer would offer for the closed Vinland Elementary School.
Last month, Superintendent Paul Dorathy told the board a district patron had approached him about purchasing the closed school.
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 21, 2014
- Baldwin High School Principal Rob McKim was instructed Monday to bring back a recommendation to the district school board about how his school should offer an ACT Test preparation class for the 2015-16 academic year.
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 14, 2014
- If he were a year older, Baldwin High School junior Cody Latham would be among the active duty military and veterans honored at halftime of Friday’s BHS home football game.
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 14, 2014
- The Maple Leaf Festival Committee will help two Baldwin High School students study for future careers in medicine.
This year’s Maple Leaf Festival scholars are BHS seniors Gunther Wehrman and Corey Valentine.
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By Elvyn Jones
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October 7, 2014
- Savion Gislar was in a good mood Monday morning as he briskly walked to school with 11 classmates.
“I like the exercise,” the fourth-grader said. “I like walking with my friends.”
A few minutes earlier, Gislar and the other students received instructions from Cheryl Schoenberger on the behavior expected of them during the walk. There was to be no horseplay, they were to listen to her and other adult escorts sporting yellow vests, which included four Baker University student volunteers, and be mindful of traffic.
