There’s a thin line between normal and insane. I think I’m standing on it… which would explain the big blob of crazy on my shoe.
Posted in Hawkins County, Tennessee on Oct 1st, 2008
Earlier this morning, Cherokee High School received a bomb threat via “writing on the wall.” As per their safety plan, they evacuated the school until the grounds could be searched. When I stopped by there this morning, I snapped a photo of highly-trained bomb sniffing bovines at work while the evacuated students wait in [...]
Posted in Hawkins County, Tennessee on Oct 1st, 2008
I noticed a ruckus a brewing at the local high school this morning. It’s just been confirmed that the ruckus is the result of a bomb threat. Students have been moved to the football field: and police are on the scene. (I might eat these words if pieces of brick hit the [...]
Posted in Hawkins County, Tennessee on Aug 28th, 2008
Jeff Bobo at the Times-News reports:
Hawkins County school system maintenance supervisor Ralph Hurd was arrested Thursday morning, as a result of being named Monday in sealed Hawkins County grand jury indictments stemming from an investigation into the theft of school property last year.
Hurd, 68 … was indicted on two counts of official misconduct and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2008
Yesterday, I mentioned the “Relay for Life” t-shirt flap at a Bristol middle school. To make a long story short: several kids wore the purple Relay t’s to Vance Middle School. Some of those kids misbehaved. Administrators blamed the mess on the Relay’s “unifying” trademark purple – and banned the color [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2008
The Herald-Courier reports that 12-year-old Adam Gottschalk violated his school dress code by wearing a purple “Relay For Life” shirt promoting cancer research.
When 13-year-old Michael Payne was spotted wearing the same T-shirt, he said he missed two classes after being told to sit in the hallway to “think about” what he’d done.
And when 12-year-old Matt [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 11th, 2008
According to Bill Grubb at the Rogersville Review, “blogging” has joined reading, writing and arithmetic on the curriculum at Rogersville City School. According to RCS fifth grade instructor Jennifer Ewing, students in her class are using web logs, known as blogs, to sharpen their writing skills.
At Tuesday’s meeting of the city school board Ewing also [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2008
According to Bob Moore at the Tribune, a Hancock County grand jury has declined to indict Hancock County High School and Middle School principal Thomas Zachary.
Zachary faced charges arising from an incident last November.
The principal was accused of paddling a 13-year-old boy twice on the same day. Family members of the boy say Zachary paddled [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2008
Good Bread, Good Meat.
(This link is to a news story about the safety of food in schools served by NETCO, a School Food Service Cooperative in Northeast Tennessee. Although Hawkins County schools do participate in the NETCO Cooperative, this post should not be be interpreted as a recommendation or endorsement of any particular [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2008
UPDATE: (WVLT) – A lockdown that lasted about four hours is finally over at a Hawkins County School.Hawkins County Director of Schools Charlotte Britton tells volunteertv.com the lockdown at Bulls Gap Elementary ended about 11:30 a.m.
Britton says the school was placed on lockdown at 7:30 a.m. after a threat of a student with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2008
Hawkins County Schools will be closed today, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 because there is a slight sprinkling of snow on the ground.
In case you missed it, Hawkins County was under a snow advisory last night and the National Weather Service is calling for a bit more snow today.
I didn’t bother to buy the store out [...]
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