Browse past news stories for Baker Middle School in Baker, LA.

• SPLOST dollars to build new Carver High School (WTVM 9 Columbus)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:43:46 pm
  Phase I of Muscogee County School District's Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, or SPLOST, is being put into action and as News Leader Nine found out, the plan has a lot of changes in store for students and faculty.
• Muscogee Co. Schools to start 2009 SPLOST projects (WTVM 9 Columbus)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 02:28:46 pm
  It's an exciting time in the Muscogee County School District as plans to implement Phase One of the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) 2009 projects are underway. 
• Carver to move to Baker next school year (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
  posted on November 22, 2009 at 02:25:49 am
  Students at Carver High School will be moved to Baker Middle School and Baker and Marshall Middle School students will share one campus beginning in the 2010-2011 school year.
• School board meets Monday (Bakercityherald.com)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 07:30:41 pm
  Superintendent Don Ulrey is expected to announce his retirement when the Baker School Board meets Monday night.
• Campaign sweeps pride in, trash out (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 11:43:00 pm
  CORPUS CHRISTI —As Judy Gale pulled weeds out of flower beds at the Plaza de Pineda, she wanted to show the community what pride meant to her Saturday.“Pay it forward,” she said. “If someone sees you doing something good, they will catch on and likely do it, too.”During Saturday’s Clean Sweep event, nearly 500 volunteers tried to clean up Corpus Christi, kicking off the city’s pride campaign ...
• Tacoma school levy vote likely (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 08:21:34 am
  The Tacoma School Board is leaning strongly toward asking voters to approve a $140 million capital levy in February, less than a year after voters rejected a school bond package more than twice that size.
• Three Baker County schools rated as ‘outstanding’ in 2008-09 report (Bakercityherald.com)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 12:12:37 am
  PORTLAND — State Schools Superintendent Susan Castillo released the latest batch of report cards for Oregon schools, with 95 percent rated ‘‘satisfactory’’ or ‘‘outstanding.’’
• Joel Cummings awaits new lungs (Bakercityherald.com)
  posted on November 6, 2009 at 06:32:03 pm
  Joel Cummings is waiting for the call to change his life, and in the meantime his mantra is “B Positive.” Cummings, 24, has cystic fibrosis, and he is on the list for a double-lung transplant at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
• Recreation calendar | Nov. 5 (Auburn Reporter)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 07:23:58 pm
  Players ages 12-18 with a passion for baseball and a desire to take their game to the next level are invited to a workout with Triple Play baseball Club. More information: (253) 249-9359.
• Obituaries for Nov. 4, 2009 (Bakercityherald.com)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 07:47:15 pm
  Elva Mae Nichols, 92, died Oct. 31, 2009, at Baker City, just two days short of her 93rd birthday. Friends and relatives gathered at Haines Monday to say goodbye and to celebrate her birthday.
• Baker principal shakeup OK’d (The Advocate)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 06:30:10 am
  BAKER — The Baker School Board accepted the resignation Tuesday of one principal and transferred two other principals as part of a staff shakeup that angered several teachers in the audience.
• School system shuffles administrators (WAFB Baton Rouge)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 04:35:54 am
  Suspensions, resignations and transfers of administrators were made within the Baker School System. It's an apparent trickle-down effect, aimed at turning things around at Baker Middle.
• Two teens arrested in alleged pencil attack (WAFB Baton Rouge)
  posted on October 27, 2009 at 08:20:54 am
  According to police, two 14-year-old boys attacked another teen at school Monday. They were both arrested. One of them allegedly tried to stab a classmate in the face with a pencil.
• First hunt also the last for 12-year-old (Bakercityherald.com)
  posted on October 23, 2009 at 07:00:43 pm
  Matea Huggins isn’t even a teenager yet but already she’s the star of a hunting tale that would enchant listeners at any Oregon campfire. It’s even true, this story.
• Recreation calendar | Oct. 21 (Auburn Reporter)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 10:00:48 pm
  Players ages 12-18 with a passion for baseball and a desire to take their game to the next level are invited to a workout with Triple Play baseball Club. More information: (253) 249-9359.
• School district ‘loans to itself’ (Bakercityherald.com)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 06:46:02 pm
  In his first official act as the Baker School District’s new chief financial officer and business manager, Doug Dalton told the school board he needed a loan.
• Baker students answer soldier’s plea (Bakercityherald.com)
  posted on October 19, 2009 at 08:40:42 pm
  A chance conversation between principal Betty Palmer and a mother whose son is a soldier serving in Afghanistan launched a school supply drive at South Baker School this fall.
• 15 percent of Baker students home sick this week (Bakercityherald.com)
  posted on October 16, 2009 at 10:55:52 pm
  Runny noses, coughs and fevers have been making their way through the halls of Baker schools, which recorded an absenteeism rate of about 15 percent this week.
• Fire & rescue blotter | Oct. 16 (Auburn Reporter)
  posted on October 16, 2009 at 03:47:32 pm
  Fire alarm: 12:42 p.m., (Auburn). Firefighters shut down the fire sprinkler system at a building on the 300 block of South Division Street because a damaged sprinkler head was spraying water. Firefighters instructed maintenance personnel to perform a fire watch until the system could be restored.
• Recreation calendar | Oct. 14 (Auburn Reporter)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 05:30:08 pm
  Players ages 12-18 with a passion for baseball and a desire to take their game to the next level are invited to a workout with Triple Play baseball Club. More information: (253) 249-9359.
• 3 charged for BB-gun shootings at school (WAFB Baton Rouge)
  posted on October 12, 2009 at 01:50:54 pm
  Baker police have a lot of questions after a 14-year-old student brought a BB-gun to school, two people were shot and no one reported it to them. Three students were eventually charged.
• Girls learn about careers in math, science and technology in YWCA event (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
  posted on October 11, 2009 at 01:01:16 am
  CORPUS CHRISTI — Fossils older than dinosaurs fascinated Savannah Perez, 12, Saturday. “I want to be a geology person,” the South Park Middle School sixth grader told Katrina Newsom a water resource planner for the city’s water department. Newsom, 27, showed girls geological procedures on a computer in the YWCA Corpus Christi’s Fantastic Futures program. “You can be a paleontologist who uses ...
• Police blotter | Oct. 9 (Auburn Reporter)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 03:32:32 pm
  Theft from vehicle: 10 a.m., 1900 block of 19th Place Southeast. Somebody stole a Springfield XD-40 subcompact gun from an unlocked vehicle. Police did not disclose a value.
• Recreation calendar | Oct. 7 (Auburn Reporter)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 12:59:43 am
  Players ages 12-18 with a passion for baseball and a desire to take their game to the next level are invited to a workout with Triple Play baseball Club. More information: (253) 249-9359.
• Recreation calendar | Sept. 30 (Auburn Reporter)
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 05:56:09 pm
  Players ages 12-18 with a passion for baseball and a desire to take their game to the next level are invited to a workout with Triple Play baseball Club. More information: (253) 249-9359.
• Hungry? Head for the gym (Bakercityherald.com)
  posted on September 25, 2009 at 07:25:42 pm
  The smell of sweaty socks and freshly waxed floors isn’t nearly as noticeable in the Baker Middle School gymnasium this fall. Instead the air is filled to the rafters with the aroma of biscuits and gravy first thing in the morning and burritos and lasagna at lunchtime.
• School walls get a makeover (Dayton Daily News)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 06:04:53 pm
  School walls get a makeover
• Recreation calendar | Sept. 23 (Auburn Reporter)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 05:10:50 pm
  Players ages 12-18 with a passion for baseball and a desire to take their game to the next level are invited to a workout with Triple Play baseball Club. More information: (253) 249-9359.
• 2 teens arrested in Baker school fire (The Shreveport Times)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 11:46:23 am
  Police and a fire department investigator have arrested two Baker Middle School students accused of intentionally starting a fire in a girls' restroom.
• 2 teens arrested in school fire (KPLC Lake Charles)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 11:15:59 am
  Associated Press - September 22, 2009 7:14 AM ET BAKER, La. (AP) - Police and a fire department investigator have arrested two Baker Middle School students accused of intentionally starting a...