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The state Board of Education is raising school bus fares starting Jan. 1, with one-way prices more than doubling. In an 8-2 vote Thursday night, the board agreed to raise one-way fares to 75 cents from 35 cents; quarterly passes to $60, up 90 percent from $31.50; and annual passes to $225, 88 percent higher than the current $119.60. In September the board's Committee on Administrative Services deadlocked with a 4-4 vote, effectively killing the bus fare increase. However, the measure came up again las  

At the end of June, the School District of Clinton will likely have a new superintendent. The current superintendent, Pam Kiefert will be retiring. "They just accepted my retirement," she said.  

When Nova Scotian snowboarder Alex Duckworth competed in her first national competition she did the best she could to finish first the first day. She finished dead last. Determined to do better she went back out the next day, started her run, crashed into the first gate and knocked herself out of the competition.

I have to stay positive right now and I'm very focused on getting my ankle better and I should be back to snowboarding in about a month or so.   -Nova Scotian

 

Many of the thoughts expressed in this editorial are things that Darrel and I have always talked about and considered, but within the past couple of weeks, they have just really been front-and-center for us. The most recent discussions and frustrations we've shared with each other started after the most recent school board meeting. When I first arrived at the meeting, so many people packed into the room that it was difficult getting through the door and I had difficulty hearing the board president.

Art and music are normally given a higher status in schools than drama and dance. There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not? I think this is rather important. I think math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they’re allowed to, we all do.   -Ken Robinson

 

Frugal shoppers can make the most of their grocery money with manufacturers' coupons worth up to $63 tucked inside Sunday's Times Herald. That's not the only reason to pick up the Sunday paper. First, it's going to be stuffed with deals from local retailers as well as the weekly flyers from your favorite stores.  

They are four of the five scores that the Mayfield boys golf team had as it qualified for this week's district tournament.  

SINGER Rob Halligan is encouraging more people to sponsor poverty-stricken children in Bangladesh after visiting the country.  

DEMOCRACY was in the hands of young children for the day at Coventry Council House.