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IA students and their parents at Thursday night's board meeting urged the board not to go through with rumored closing.

Eight of 17 candidates seeking seven slots on the commission representing districts 6-18 participated in the forum Monday evening.

Tenure in Tennessee takes at least five school years to attain. Assistant Director Ingrid Deloach said fewer teachers will be tenured than normal the next few years because of fewer

For the first time in their history, the British Town Crier Championships are being held in silence. The UK’s top shouters will be judged on their written cries alone. Organiser and Bishop’s Stortford crier Carole Williams said it was “a return to the bare bones of crying”. Organisers decided to judge the 2021 competition without sound because not everyone is able to record a good-quality video, she added. BBC South (Mark Ireson) Bone appetite A competitive eater scoffed a giant 5lb steak. Kate Ovens, 27, from Fleet, Hampshire, spent five hours grilling a £200 slab of tomahawk Wa...

BLOUNTVILLE — Where public entities have failed to build better access to a new Sullivan County high school opening next August, a public-private partnership called Jericho Partners may come to the rescue. The idea, if it works, would get the access road to West Ridge High School on Lynn Road off Exit 63 of Interstate 81 in place by the August 2021 opening of the 1,700- to 1,900-student school. And involved with the potential project is Jim Belgeri, the former Sullivan County commissioner of roads and a civil engineer who proposed a West Ridge access road project and funding for it when ...