Sterling Middle News Today

The band awards were announced Monday for the 2024 Apple Blossom Festival’s Tekniplex Youth Parade.

At Peetz School and elsewhere, Kaitlyn Foos has gone above and beyond to make sure students have the resources they need. “Kaitlyn could be a poster child for flexibility within a school district! First hired for third grade, then moved to sixth grade classroom teacher, we finally have her rooted as the head of our […]

A week ahead of Teacher Appreciation Week, May 6-10, fifteen educators and support staff were honored Friday during the eighth annual Crystal Apple Awards presented by the Journal-Advocate and South Platte Sentinel. Held at Northeastern Junior College, Friday’s awards dinner recognized staff members from Logan County’s four school districts – RE-1 Valley, Merino, Fleming and […]

The third concert of the 2023-2024 Sterling Concert Series, Yu & I, will be on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 7:00 p.m. at the Sterling Middle School. YuEun Kim and Ines Thome met in 2013 when they both had just moved to the U.S. YuEun is from Korea and Ines came from Germany. They found themselves […]

The second in the 2023-24 Sterling Concert Series will be Kathy Kaefer’s program “Kiss Me Once, Stories from the Homefront”. This award-winning show immortalizes the brave men and women of “The Greatest Generation” in a celebration of the songs that inspired them to greatness during World War II. Kathy draws a deeply personal narrative from […]

Sterling Middle School is hoping that two crossing guard positions with help with congestion issues. At a business meeting on Monday, the RE-1 Valley School Board approved the creation of two part-time crossing guard positions with a minimum pay of $14.40 (salary dependent on experience). Interim Superintendent Dr. Martin Foster explained that traffic flow at […]

Two Sterling men have been arrested on suspicion of multiple counts of sexual exploitation of children, the result of an investigation by Sterling Police Department detectives. Cory Duane Makinster, 31, and Trever Makinster, 24, face a total of 26 counts of sexual exploitation of a child. Cory Makinster is a registered sex offender. According to […]

Campbell Elementary School’s peer mediator program is continuing to teach students how to solve conflicts on their own. Jane Balenti, a student achievement coach who facilitates mediation and conflict resolution practices in the district, and nine 5th grade peer mediators spoke about the program at a RE-1 Valley School Board meeting Monday. Peer mediation is […]

An enthusiastic crowd enjoyed going back to the past and listening to the songs of the Legacy Trio Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, at the Sterling Concert Series season opener. The former Kingston Trio members had the crowd singing “Tom Dooley,” and commiserating with the guy on the MTA. In the crowd was a couple from […]

The clinic will visit seven schools throughout the summer and provide free physicals, wellness checks and community health care service referrals to students.