Siegel Middle, Siegel High and Stewarts Creek High Beta Club members place at national competition Aug 02, 2021 at 06:03 pm by WGNS
By AMANDA CHEUVRONT and KEITH RYAN CARTWRIGHT
All their springtime work paid off for the Beta club members from Siegel Middle with a pair of top five finishes at the National Beta Convention, including first place in the performing arts solo, duo, trio category.
The first-place team included McKenna Elliott, Samantha Festervand and Reese Lynam and they beat out more than 30 schools competing in-person and even more virtual entries.
Fellow eighth-grader Noah Wright took third in social studies.
This was the second year in a row Wright placed at the National Convention. He was third in the seventh grade competition last year.
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60% of surveyed district employees want to keep mask requirement
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Five of the seven Rutherford County Board of Education members back keeping the mask requirement policy through the end of the school year.
The seven board members responded to same question from The Daily News Journal about the mask issue, and their answers are provided below.
A unanimous board in July established the mask policy as part of the reopening of schools plan after students had been out since March 2020 because of the pandemic.