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Homestead grad Durnell is new East Noble hoops coach VICTORIA JACOBSEN | The Journal Gazette East Noble announced that Brandon Durnell was officially approved as the new boys basketball coach during the school board meeting on Wednesday evening. Durnell is 21 and recently graduated from Spring Arbor, where he averaged 23.6 points and 11.0 rebounds for the mens basketball team this season. Durnell graduated from Homestead in 2017. He will also take over the assistant athletic director job, which...

ROME CITY — With the 2020-21 school year nearly complete, the East Noble School Corp. is looking ahead to the 2021-22 year. Superintendent Ann Linson updated the school board during Wednesday night’s meeting on the safety protocols, which will be in place in anticipation of a continuation of the pandemic deeper into 2021. “A lot can change between now and August,” Linson said. “We are hoping things will be business as usual. To make that happen, we need more people to g...