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The Orchard Public School Advisory Board of Education faced a short agenda when they met last Wednesday at the high school. Board members heard from Principal Cathy Cooper that enrollment numbers used for football classification, as of last Wednesday, sat at 47, the maximum allowed for eight-man participation, in order to qualify for state playoffs. An increase in the number of boys enrolled in grades nine, 10 and 11 in any of the three schools, would push the future Bobcats to 11-man. Enrollment on Oct. 1 will determine classification....
Preliminary enrollment figures for area schools were released recently. Enrollment at Clearwater Public Schools, Ewing Public Schools and Orchard Public Schools show a decrease from 2018-19 numbers. Clearwater Public Schools All three schools in the Unified District report fewer students. Superintendent Dale Martin listed the number of students per grade at each respective site, in a report released Aug. 21. Clearwater Public Schools boasts the largest enrollment of the Unified schools, with...
Clearwater Public and Orchard Public Schools will celebrate homecoming, beginning Tuesday, Sept. 3. Dress up days will be held in each school. Clearwater students will strike their best movie star pose on Tuesday, relive the past during decades day, Wednesday, and sport blue and black for the Bobcats on Thursday. Orchard students will have a dress up day on Tuesday, celebrate wacky Wednesday and pair up for duo day on Thursday. Both schools will cheer for the Cyclones and Bobcats Friday. The...
The Orchard advisory school board approved several policies when three members and Principal Cathy Cooper met last week at the school. Board member Nathan Schwager was absent. The policies included several to align activity policies in the three schools forming the Summerland Bobcat cooperative, Orchard, Clearwater and Ewing, along with changes recommended by the state school board association. Several statewide changes deal with electronic nicotine delivery systems, alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, look-alikes and products...
Not every day do you get to talk to someone from a different country, but students from several communities will get the opportunity every day. Maddy Repein is a foreign exchange student from Cologne, Germany, and she is living with Bob and Bev Krutz of Orchard until June 2020. Repein is only 15 years old, and she will be a senior at Orchard Public Schools. Maddy would be a sophomore back in Germany, and she does not receive credit for spending a year in America. When she returns to Germany,...
Patience, determination and confidence. Eleven-year-old Derek Sayers, of Orchard, says 4-H has developed those traits. He has a poster - and ribbon - to prove it. "It's taught me how to get things done," he said. Sayers has been an independent 4-H member for three years. His interest in the youth program began after he listened to a talk about it at Orchard Public Schools. "I asked my parents if I could try it and they said 'Oh yeah.'" He's shown beef, goats and poultry. This year, he recevied...
Mark you calendars for Saturday, Aug. 24. The Summerland Lady Bobcats will open their inaugural season at the Bill Marshall Volleyball Classic. The Bobcats are slated to face Axtell, at 10 a.m., at Grand Island Central Catholic. A second match will begin at noon against Schuyler Central. The EPPJ Lady Wolfpack will also participate in the tourney. The Wolfpack will face Palmer at 10 a.m., at Grand Island Northwest, follwed by an 11 a.m. match against Pender. The fourth annual classic features a...
