Browse past news stories for Bennett Elementary School in Bennett, CO.

• Sunnyvale history: Chrysanthemum business in 1950s involved the entire family (The Sunnyvale Sun)
  posted on November 30, 2009 at 08:00:16 pm
  Editors note: The following is Part II of Mike Chow's account about growing up Asian in Sunnyvale. After 15 years of separation due to immigration laws, Chow's parents were finally united in Sunnyvale in the 1950s.
• Kindergartner wins bike in Michigan Theatre drawing (The Jackson Citizen Patriot)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 03:56:00 am
  This Thanksgiving, one little girl has a special reason to be thankful. Nazarieah Rudd, a kindergartner at Jackson's Bennett Elementary School, recently won a new bike in a drawing at the Michigan Theatre.Nazarieah beat out nearly 500 other entrants. Throughout...
• Laughlin in brief - a collection of area events. (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 08:21:15 am
  LAUGHLIN - The U.S. Postal Service reminds residents and visitors of the mailing deadlines to reach members of the U.S. military branches overseas and that they depend upon the APO-FPO ZIP code for the five different classes of mail. (The regular parcel post deadline has passed.)
• Veterans Day observance draws crowd (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 08:19:48 am
  LAUGHLIN - The largest crowd in the past few years - including the biggest group of young persons in years - attended the community's Veterans Day ceremony produced annually by American Legion Laughlin Post 60, the post's Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars Laughlin Post 243 at the Avenue of Flags just north of the Riverside Resort hotel-casino.
• Lady Cougars repeat as regional cross country champs (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 08:18:21 am
  LAUGHLIN - The Laughlin High School girls cross country team successfully defended its NIAA Class 2A South Region championship Friday at Mountain View Park-Bennett Elementary School, but the boys got nipped by two points; initially it was believed they lost a 29-29 tie from lack of a sixth runner.
• Laughlin Times: Sports (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 08:17:40 am
  Lady Cougars repeat as regional cross country champs LAUGHLIN - The Laughlin High School girls cross country team successfully defended its NIAA Class 2A South Region championship Friday at Mountain View Park-Bennett Elementary School, but the boys got nipped by two points; initially it was believed they lost a 29-29 tie from lack of a sixth runner.
• Bear Seen Walking Down Bellevue Street Near School (KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma)
  posted on October 30, 2009 at 05:11:58 pm
  BELLEVUE, Wash. -- A black bear was spotting walking down a street in northeast Bellevue Thursday afternoon, a few miles from an elementary school. A letter was sent out to parents of children at Bennett Elementary School that said the bear was seen at about 12:30 p.m. while students were in class.
• Clarksburg adults mix softball, socializing (Damascus Gazette)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 09:04:49 am
  John Ziegler of Boyds pitches during the last adult Clarksburg Softball League game of the season on Oct.12 at Little Bennett Elementary School in Clarksburg.
• Fate of Jackson Public Schools millage may be tied to the economy (The Jackson Citizen Patriot)
  posted on October 28, 2009 at 05:55:41 am
  Citizen Patriot file photoSome of the $16.6 million in bonds requested by JPS would go toward equipment and upgrades at the Middle School at Parkside.Jackson Public Schools officials acknowledge their biggest competitor in next week's millage vote is the economy.While...
• Church announces plans to build the Glady Laughlin Annex (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 07:20:33 am
  LAUGHLIN - Laughlin Community Church will more than double its physical size with an addition named in honor of the late Glady Laughlin. Phase I of the Glady Laughlin Annex will add a wing to the back of the current church on Needles Highway just above Laughlin Town Center.
• A history lesson at Bennett School (The Taunton Gazette)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 02:16:00 am
  A gymnasium full of wide-eyed Bennett Elementary School students watched pint-sized Jeffrey Mullen slowly disappear under colonial-era regalia Tuesday, as Al Soucy, Captain of the Rehoboth Minutemen, piled on the bare essentials of a Civil War soldier on the road.
• Bennett School cultivates sense of community (The Taunton Gazette)
  posted on October 13, 2009 at 03:15:43 am
  Students at Bennett Elementary School will get a very unique history lesson today, when visitors dressed in colonial-era regalia put on a presentation for Liberty and Union Day.
• Stimulus money helps Washoe schools (Reno Gazette-Journal)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 08:48:14 am
  Some of the $254 million Nevada is expecting in education funding from the federal government under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has already made a difference in Washoe County schools.
• Hackett names list of top school repairs (The Taunton Gazette)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 02:16:00 am
  Superintendent Julie Hackett presented a list Wednesday of building repair projects the school district is submitting as statements of interest to the Massachusetts School Building Authority, the state agency that approves school building projects and authorizes state reimbursements for them to cities and towns.
• Former Point Pleasant PTO treasurer charged with theft (Asbury Park Press)
  posted on October 6, 2009 at 02:02:09 am
  POINT PLEASANT — Authorities have charged the former treasurer of the Nellie F. Bennett Elementary School PTO with one count of third-degree theft, said Martin Anton, senior assistant Ocean County prosecutor.
• Junior-senior high school population sufficient to avoid teacher layoffs (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 11:35:10 pm
  LAUGHLIN - Enrollment at the three local schools remained steady a month after opening day, according to their principals. On opening day at Laughlin High, Principal Dick Edwards had 251 students in the four grades; on Sept. 23 he reported 250 students.
• Drops in enrollment will mean less state aid for many Jackson-area schools (The Jackson Citizen Patriot)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 04:56:08 am
  Dave Weatherwax | Jackson Citizen PatriotBennett Elementary School students O Landenberger, 7, left, and Jayvion Jones, 7, enjoy bags of popcorn Wednesday morning. The popcorn, made by the parent members of the PTO, was an incentive to get students to...
• 15-y.o. missing two weeks (SouthtownStar)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 04:50:58 pm
  Calumet Area detectives are looking for a 15-year-old girl last seen two weeks ago on Chicago's Far South Side. Diamond Farrell was last seen Sept. 14, according to a Missing Person Alert from the Calumet Area Special Victims Unit. She is described as a 5-foot-8, 165-pound black girl with brown eyes, black hair and a dark complexion. She was last seen wearing a white shirt and black pants ...
• Police look for missing 15-year-old (WBBM Newsradio 780 Chicago)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 03:56:02 pm
  Calumet Area detectives are looking for a 15-year-old girl last seen two weeks ago on the Far South Side.
• Laughlin High School cross country runners again expect to be NIAA title contenders (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on September 16, 2009 at 07:19:29 am
  LAUGHLIN - The Lady Cougars cross country team this season is a mix of veteran youngsters, a trio returning from last year's NIAA Class 2A runner-up squad plus a talented senior rookie and a pair of underclassmen.
• Principal at Clay's Charles E. Bennett Elementary retires (The Florida Times-Union)
  posted on September 5, 2009 at 04:23:57 am
  Her legacy at Charles E. Bennett Elementary School has been years in the making. In 2000, Principal Monica Boccieri implemented Saturday Scholars, a program to provide extra help to struggling students that is still in place today. Six years later it led Bennett to its first-ever A grade, up from a C. In 2008, Boccieri introduced the innovative "dream" project, which had students reading ...
• Laughlin High welcomes new, returning students (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on September 2, 2009 at 07:19:41 am
  LAUGHLIN - The annual open house on Aug. 27 at Laughlin Junior-Senior High School drew its usual large crowd of parents visiting the classrooms and viewing their kid's schedules.
• Teacher Training Means More Science at Montgomery County Elementary Schools (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
  posted on August 31, 2009 at 10:02:54 am
  First graders in Julia Bialeski’s class hustled milk bottles and thermometers from the mini refrigerator to shared tables in their classroom. Their goal: measure and compare the temperature of bottles that had been refrigerated for three minutes to the ones that had been sitting on their desks.
• Laughlin students return to classes this week (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on August 25, 2009 at 03:51:08 pm
  LAUGHLIN - Students in all three local schools resumed classes Monday after the summer break. Approximately 700 kindergarten-12th graders returned Aug. 24 at William G. Bennett Elementary School and Laughlin Junior-Senior High School; grades 6-12 share a campus.
• Laughlin schools to begin classes today (Mohave Daily News)
  posted on August 24, 2009 at 09:34:05 am
  LAUGHLIN - As is normal, students in Laughlin's three public schools are the last to return to classes in the Tri-state.
• Fake drill hits home for teachers (KCBD-TV Lubbock)
  posted on August 20, 2009 at 11:52:16 pm
  A gunman on the loose, shots fired and a bomb threat. Lubbock first responder's trained for these real life emergencies and more at Bennett Elementary School. NewsChannel 11's Ann Wyatt Little sat down with teachers who were evacuated during the drill and has more on just how real the pretend emergency felt.
• Young animator among crafters at Prince William fair (News & Messenger)
  posted on August 18, 2009 at 01:11:16 am
  Inside the home arts buildings at the Prince William County Fair this week, crafters are hard at work demonstrating quilting, knitting and ... animation?
• PSD changes culminate today (The Fort Collins Coloradoan)
  posted on August 17, 2009 at 11:09:58 am
  About 7,400 students will start in a new school as PSD moves sixth-graders to middle schools and ninth-graders to high schools.
• Most fall sports dates set (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on August 12, 2009 at 07:15:03 am
  LAUGHLIN - While some dates remain available, the bulk of the Laughlin High School fall sports schedules are set, according to Athletic Director Ben Fermon.
• 2009 registration details announced for Laughlin Junior-Senior High School (The Laughlin Times)
  posted on July 29, 2009 at 07:22:38 am
  LAUGHLIN - Registration for the coming year at Laughlin Junior-Senior High School will be held Monday-Wednesday, Aug. 17-19, from 7-10 a.m. and 11 a.m.-1 p.m. each day.