Browse past news stories for Bethel Middle School in Bethel, CT.

• Free school lunch tells tale of poor kids (The News-Times)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 08:28:40 pm
  Bethel has about 100 more students this year who eat a free or reduced-cost lunch every day. They take advantage of a national program that is considered the most precise way to measure the number of schoolchildren living in poverty.Despite the district's enrollment increasing by only 213, Danbury schools have 647 more students this year than last year who receive low-cost or free lunches based ...
• Bethel 7th-graders learn math outside (The News-Times)
  posted on October 13, 2009 at 08:43:08 pm
  BETHEL -- Distance equals rate times time, a seventh-grade math equation that on a worksheet in a classroom sounds a little dull.But take it outside with a police officer, a car with flashing lights and a radar gun, and the dynamic changes. That's what math teacher Alison Salerno counted on Tuesday when she brought her math classes to the front of Bethel Middle School to calculate the equation ...
• Bethel students recognized for knightly virtue (The Shawnee News-Star)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 03:14:15 pm
  Sept. 23, Bethel Middle School kicked off its Knight Vision ceremony by recognizing 11 students for the knightly virtue of Prowess. Knight Vision is a major guidance activity where students learn knightly virtues throughout the school year and students are picked based on their example of that virtue.
• Back to Bethel (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 04:49:42 am
  CANTON — There's no soundstage. No digital chip timing. Nothing fancy. No frills. But the scenery is the stuff of Hollywood movies, and the post-race potato soup will make you feel loved.
• FUN FOR THE FAMILY Bryant gears up for 22nd Fall Fest (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
  posted on September 24, 2009 at 09:06:36 am
  The Bryant Fall Fest will celebrate its 22nd year with several new activities including the Biggest Baddest ATV contest, archery contest, a geocache and Joe Dirt look-alike contest.
• education Co-teaching working well at Bethel Middle School (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
  posted on September 24, 2009 at 09:06:22 am
  Working side-by-side in the classroom, Carol Baber and Jennifer Francis are coteachers at Bethel Middle School in Bryant. They have a blended class, one composed of special-needs students and those who may not need any extra help.
• Sign up now for 16th annual Bethel Half Marathon and 5K (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on September 24, 2009 at 04:51:14 am
  CANTON — The Haywood County Bicentennial Bethel Race, a half-marathon and 5K, takes place Oct. 10 in the Bethel Community south of Canton, winding through rolling farmlands and along the Pigeon River.
• Bethel sixth-graders seek peace (The News-Times)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 09:28:36 pm
  BETHEL -- Under a cloudless sky and with a slight breeze capturing the scent of newly cut grass, about 250 sixth-graders at Bethel Middle School sat in a circle talking about peace.In honor of the United Nations' International Day of Peace, the students read their essays on peace and showed dream catchers they'd made.
• Outdoors calendar (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on September 18, 2009 at 04:49:56 pm
  Submit items one week in advance for the Outdoors Calendar, a weekly listing of hiking, mountain biking, paddling, running and other activities in Western North Carolina.
• Troop Box Ministry to host benefit in Bethel (Community Press & Recorder)
  posted on September 17, 2009 at 03:42:02 pm
  Diana Lawrence and the Troop Box Ministry will present a gospel and bluegrass music benefit from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Bethel Middle School, 649 W. Plane St., next to Gold Star Chilli.
• Students react to presidential address (The Mountaineer)
  posted on September 9, 2009 at 02:02:58 am
  President Barack Obama gave a speech Tuesday to students across the country, encouraging them to do their best in school and making the most of their education.
• Learn the ropes of running a Half Marathon (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on August 20, 2009 at 04:46:38 am
  ASHEVILLE — If you are planning to run a half marathon this fall, come for free race training at REI, starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday Aug. 26 at the store in Biltmore Park.
• Bryant school board to hear construction plans, budget (Benton Courier)
  posted on August 17, 2009 at 07:08:43 pm
  Bryant School Board members are expected to discuss future building construction plans and the 2009-2010 budget today. The 6 p.m. meeting will be held at the Professional Development Center on the campus of Bryant High School, off North Reynolds Road.
• ‘Save A Teacher Challenge’ spurs donations (The Mountaineer)
  posted on August 9, 2009 at 11:01:11 pm
  This past weekend was a big one for Haywood County Schools. Friday kicked off a month of activities in the Save A Teacher Challenge with a fundraiser and awareness event at Walmart.
• ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS HELPS HAYWOOD SCHOOLS (The Mountaineer)
  posted on August 9, 2009 at 11:00:51 pm
  Church-goers come out in droves to clean schools About 1,000 community volunteers spent Saturday morning planting bushes, pulling weeds, painting awnings, spreading mulch and generally sprucing up school buildings across the county.
• Churches pitch in (The Mountaineer)
  posted on July 29, 2009 at 11:49:09 pm
  Aug. 8 work day planned Times of economic recession leave all feeling the financial pinch in different ways. For some, severe budget cuts mean doing more with less. For others, lack of revenue leads to loss of jobs.
• Bethel GOP chooses Craybas over Burke (The News-Times)
  posted on July 29, 2009 at 03:53:19 am
  BETHEL -- Town Republicans refused to nominate incumbent First Selectman Robert Burke for his third term in office Tuesday, choosing Lawrence Craybas, the vice chairman of the Board of Education, for the first selectman's spot on their ticket.The Republicans, caucusing at Bethel Middle School, gave 117 votes to Craybas, compared to 81 for Burke.
• Briefs, Camps, Signups, Tidbits and Rumors (The Mountaineer)
  posted on July 24, 2009 at 12:42:20 am
  Camps Tuscola High Team Volleyball Camp University of Alabama Head Coach Judy Green will be the guest instructor at the Tuscola High Team Volleyball Camp, Monday-Wednesday, July 27-29. The camp begins at 9 a.m. Monday.
• Girl's death by falling tree stuns quiet New Fairfield (The News-Times)
  posted on June 26, 2009 at 05:23:01 am
  NEW FAIRFIELD -- They ate potato chips and had soft drinks, then decided to explore a stream in the woods. But as the 13 young girls at Catherine Burke's end-of-the-school-year party were "splashing around" the shallow brook behind Burke's Smoke Hill Drive home Wednesday afternoon, tragedy struck, suddenly and without warning.
• Free sports physicals today (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on May 28, 2009 at 04:46:33 pm
  CLYDE — Haywood Sports Medicine will offer free pre-participation comprehensive sports physicals for middle and high school student athletes, starting at 6 p.m. today at Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center.
• Free sports physicals tomorrow (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on May 27, 2009 at 08:31:33 pm
  CLYDE — Haywood Sports Medicine will offer free pre-participation comprehensive sports physicals for middle and high school student athletes, starting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center.
• Exergaming is next best thing at Bethel Middle School (The News-Times)
  posted on May 27, 2009 at 01:08:11 am
  BETHEL -- The seventh-graders kicked off their shoes and faced a monitor high on the classroom wall.They were tense, ready to act. The music grew louder.First they put their fingers on their wrists and took their resting heart rate. Then they began to move to Fergie's mega-hit "Big Girls Don't Cry.
• Bethel Middle School Students of the Year (The Shawnee News-Star)
  posted on May 25, 2009 at 09:36:01 pm
  Bethel Middle School 2008-2009 Students of the Year are eighth-graders Ethan Gingrich and Julia Lindsay.
• Bethel Middle School students of the nine weeks (The Shawnee News-Star)
  posted on May 25, 2009 at 09:35:51 pm
  Bethel Middle School students, from left to right, Shelby Beach, eighth grade; Matt Watson, eighth grade; Colton Carter, seventh grade; Matt Zwermann, sixth grade; and Brooklyn Motley, sixth grade, were recently recognized for their academic achievement during the fourth nine weeks of school.
• Find Out What's Going On This Weekend (Eyewitness News 3 Hartford)
  posted on May 23, 2009 at 05:57:12 am
  Find out what's going on this weekend in Connecticut in our Community Calendar.
• Community briefs (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on May 21, 2009 at 04:31:29 am
  SAN ANTONIO — Air Force Reserve Airman Michelle M. Agostini recently graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base. She is the daughter of David and Sharon Agostini, of Waynesville, and a 2007 graduate of Tuscola High School.
• HRMC offers free sports physicals for student athletes (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on May 15, 2009 at 08:30:12 am
  Haywood Sports Medicine will offer free pre-participation comprehensive sports physicals for middle and high school student athletes, starting at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 28 at Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center.
• HRMC offers sports physicals (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on May 14, 2009 at 04:33:25 am
  CLYDE – Haywood Sports Medicine will offer free, pre-participation comprehensive sports physicals for middle and high school student athletes, starting at 6 p.m. May 28 at Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center.
• Haywood Animal Control sponsors spring rabies clinics (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on May 12, 2009 at 02:59:55 pm
  HAYWOOD COUNTY – Haywood County Animal Control and the Haywood County Health Department will sponsor a series of rabies clinics May 18-22 at locations around the county to encourage citizens to get their pets vaccinated.
• Ghost Town charity poker run Saturday (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on May 8, 2009 at 04:31:28 am
  MAGGIE VALLEY – Ghost Town in the Sky is hosting a charity Poker run this Saturday to benefit 13-year-old Logan Carlson, who was recently diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma. Motorbikes of all makes and models are encouraged to participate in the 42-mile, five-stop poker run.