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By Elvyn Jones
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December 22, 2014
- School to start Aug. 18.
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By Elvyn Jones
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December 16, 2014
- The Baldwin school board agreed Monday to put some added money into a sidewalk to the school along U.S. Highway 56 in the hopes of leveraging additional dollars from Douglas County for the project.
Baldwin City Councilwoman Christi Darnell brought the issue to the board, with a request it add to the $20,000 it has budgeted for the project that would construct 2,000 feet of new sidewalk next spring from Eleventh Street to the Baldwin Elementary School Primary Center.
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By Elvyn Jones
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December 16, 2014
- The Baldwin school board voted 6-1 Monday to sell the closed Vinland Elementary School with the four parties who have made offers on the property invited to submit sealed bids by noon Jan. 5.
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By Elvyn Jones
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December 14, 2014
- Standing early Sunday afternoon outside of the Collins Center soon after he received his bachelor’s of arts degree from Baker University, Christian Allen suddenly realized his day had another significance.
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December 8, 2014
- Meeting to be at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 15, at Baldwin Elementary School Primary Center
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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.
