Browse past news stories for Wells School in Wells, NY.

• Ruth, Rash headline All-Area fall sports team (The Garden City Telegram)
  posted on November 25, 2009 at 10:16:15 pm
  It comes down to one thing for Eric Ruth when he looks back at his high school cross country career — hard work. “As my grandpa puts it — it’s a culmination of six years of work and preparation all funneled into one final thing,” Ruth said.
• Making it the best of times (Bluffton News-Banner)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 08:21:50 pm
  The best of times. The worst of times. Dickens had a way with words. His opening sentence to one of his classics has been used an untold number of times.
• Screaming fans get taste of Twilight (Express and Star)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 11:21:25 am
  Screaming girls and giddy teenagers flocked to a Wolverhampton cinema to see one of this year's most hotly anticipated movies....
• Branding art an homage to frontier history (Explorer News)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 10:19:29 pm
  Shelley Rose; What you find "offensive," the rest of us see as homage to our frontier history. Certainly technology has improved our ability to tag livestock with less intrusive measures.
• Award for unsung Wells school worker (EDP24 - Eastern Daily Press)
  posted on November 17, 2009 at 03:13:45 pm
  A headteacher's assistant in Wells has won national plaudits for her unsung work as a high school superhero. Kim Annison, from Alderman Peel High School, has made the final of the fourth annual SecEd Headteacher's PA of the Year awards, to be held next Friday in London.
• Questions linger in wake of fire (Albany Times Union)
  posted on November 8, 2009 at 05:05:39 am
  Cause of Wells group home blaze still undetermined nearly eight months later
• Students bond with Marine (Explorer News)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 06:04:50 pm
  Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Marine Sgt. Andrew Valora gets a hug from 6-year-old Nicholas Strijdonk, right, and other students at during a surprise welcome-home party at Copper Creek Elementary School last week. Valora and his squadron were "adopted" by a 2nd-grade class last year.
• School district safe, for now (WANE-TV Fort Wayne)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 10:57:06 am
  Southern Wells Community Schools is breathing a sigh of relief after its people step up to the plate.
• Southern Wells School Referendum Passes (Indiana's NewsCenter)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 10:00:10 pm
  PONETO, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - Voters have approved a referendum aimed at helping Southern Wells Commnunity Schools out of a financial slump.
• Southern Wells County To Hold School Referendum (Indiana's NewsCenter)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 05:30:22 pm
  WELLS COUNTY, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - Some Wells County residents will vote Tuesday whether to raise property taxes to help the Southern Wells school district.
• City, town seats on the line Tuesday (The Wilson Times)
  posted on November 2, 2009 at 02:48:03 am
  Polls open Tuesday across Wilson County and North Carolina for city and town elections. Here's what you need to know: WHO CAN VOTE? Only about 40 percent of Wilson County's registered voters -- arou ...
• Smiles as Duke opens centre (Shropshire Star)
  posted on October 23, 2009 at 07:20:59 am
  The Queen's cousin has heaped praise on one of Shropshire's newest tourist attractions.
• Points of contention (Bluffton News-Banner)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 06:32:16 pm
  By JERRY BATTISTE Opposition to a proposal to raise property taxes to help generate an extra $300,000 a year for the Southern Wells Community Schools General Fund is gaining momentum just 12 days before it goes before voters.
• Queen’s cousin opens railway visitor centre (Shropshire Star)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 03:35:49 pm
  The Duke of Gloucester got a royal welcome when he arrived in the county today to unveil Severn Valley Railway's new £3.7 million visitor centre near Bridgnorth.
• Candidates want to protect District 3 (The Wilson Times)
  posted on October 12, 2009 at 02:32:53 am
  (Editor's note: The Wilson Times begins today a look at the four City Council races on this fall ballot. Early voting begins Thursday.) To get a sense of Wilson's District 3, the city's northern side ...
• Meeting the taxpayers (Bluffton News-Banner)
  posted on October 10, 2009 at 03:55:19 pm
  In less than a month voters in the southern portion of the county will go to the polls to vote for or against a proposed property tax rate increase to fund Southern Wells Community Schools.
• 3 killed in crash with school bus on Southwest side (KOLD News 13 Tuscon)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 02:47:39 pm
  Department of Public Safety officers are investigating a deadly head-on collision on the southwest side. It happened shortly after six this morning near Ajo and Sandario.
• Council to confer in closed session regarding threatened religion litigation (Tehachapi News)
  posted on September 8, 2009 at 08:58:17 pm
  The Sept. 8 Tehachapi City Council agenda indicates that the council members apparently have been challenged legally about the invocations that open each meeting. Item No. 4 under “closed session” says, “Conference with Legal Counsel regarding Threat of Litigation from Freedom From Religion Foundation per Government Code Section 54956.9(b).” Councilman Stan Beckham brought up the issue at the ...
• Neighbors Briefs (Arizona Daily Star)
  posted on September 7, 2009 at 07:17:01 am
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• Council to confer on religion litigation (Tehachapi News)
  posted on September 4, 2009 at 08:43:18 pm
  The Sept. 8 City Council agenda indicates that the council members apparently have been challenged legally about the invocations that open each meeting. Item No. 4 under “closed session” says, “Conference with Legal Counsel regarding Threat of Litigation from Freedom From Religion Foundation per Government Code Section 54956.9(b).” Councilman Stan Beckham brought up the issue at the Aug. 17 ...
• Wells school wrapping up team hazing investigation (Elko Daily Free Press)
  posted on August 25, 2009 at 06:57:48 am
  ELKO — Administrators at Wells Combined Schools have decided upon disciplinary action for students involved in a June hazing incident at a football camp.
• N.H., Maine efforts to curb swine flu on right track (The York Weekly)
  posted on August 12, 2009 at 10:06:14 am
  New Hampshire and Maine officials are right to prepare for an expected return of the H1N1 virus. Dubbed the "swine flu" this past spring, the virus has infected patients worldwide.
• News briefs (Explorer News)
  posted on August 11, 2009 at 07:59:41 am
  Two free introductions are being offered during August to the course "Coronary artery disease can be reversed." The presentations are offered by The Foundation for Cardiovascular Health, a nonprofit community foundation.
• Parades and carnival fun (Tehachapi News)
  posted on August 10, 2009 at 09:58:27 pm
  Pet Parade Children, bring your favorite animal or pet to the Pet Parade on Thursday, Aug. 13, at Read Field at West Park, 490 West D St. The Tehachapi Mountain Dog Fanciers is sponsoring the parade. Line-ups will be on a first come first serve basis, so plan to arrive before 6 p.m., since the parade begins promptly at 6 p.m.  The judging of each category starts at 6:30 p.m.  Prizes for 1st ...
• Tehachapi Mountain Festival 2009: See full newspaper insert at left (Tehachapi News)
  posted on August 10, 2009 at 09:28:29 pm
  Thursday, Aug. 13 6 p.m.: Pet Parade Sign-Ups , West  Park, 490 West D St. 6:30 p.m.: Pet Parade, West Park, 490 West D St. Friday, Aug. 14 8 a.m. to dusk: Gem & Mineral Show, St. Malachy's Catholic Church, 407 West E St. 6 - 11 p.m.: Festival Carnival, Wells School Playground 6 p.m.: V.F.W.  Live Music & Dancing, 221 W. Tehachapi Blvd. Saturday, Aug. 15 6:30 - 8 a.m.: Mountain Festival Summer ...
• Wells City Council to discuss mayor's status (KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches)
  posted on August 7, 2009 at 09:14:13 pm
  The Wells City Council, in anticipation of a large audience, has moved the location of its Monday meeting to the Wells school cafeteria.
• City to take second look at old buildings; Friendly House also deemed unsafe to enter by fire department (Keokuk Daily Gate City)
  posted on August 4, 2009 at 06:36:14 pm
  City personnel could be taking second and third looks at properties along Main Street and throughout Keokuk in the wake of the sudden collapse of a three-story, brick building at 528 Main St.
• 2009 Tehachapi Mountain Festival® (Tehachapi News)
  posted on August 3, 2009 at 07:12:23 pm
  The 46th annual Tehachapi Mountain Festival® 'What a Century in Time!' The Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce invites you to help celebrate 46 years of Tehachapi Mountain Festival® family fun Aug. 14-16 at Philip Marx Central Park. This year's theme, “What a Century in Time!” pays tributes to the city's Aug. 13 Centennial Anniversary.  See next week's Tehachapi News for a guide to all the ...
• End near for former Buena Vista building (The Steubenville Herald-Star)
  posted on August 3, 2009 at 02:19:07 pm
  STEUBENVILLE - Its beginning purpose was to serve as a one-room portable school in 1925. It would later become much more than that.
• Old Wells School no more (The Steubenville Herald-Star)
  posted on August 3, 2009 at 02:18:57 pm
  STEUBENVILLE - Sixty-eight years ago, Wells Junior High School burned to the ground, leaving behind only an annex and an empty lot. Now that annex has become a memory, with its demolition during the weekend.