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WATERTOWN — A sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases within the Watertown City School District has prompted the district to shift to a fully remote learning model for the next three weeks. In a letter to the school community Friday afternoon, Superintendent Patricia B. LaBarr confirmed the district had to make the “difficult” decision to shift to its remote learning plan, which will begin Monday and go through Jan. 29. “The decision to close school was not made lightly,” she said. “Watertown has decided that closing school for all students was a necessary...

Although 2020 brought substantial change to many different aspects of students’ everyday lives, from in-person learning, tackling sports and learning remotely, the Unified School District of Antigo has helped students manage this change. Having to learn the remote system fairly quickly was a large learning curve not only for students and caregivers but also for staff throughout the district. “As the weeks continue to go by, however, our staff members continue to provide the best education they can for students regardless if those students are learning remotely or in person,” sa...

10 YEARS AGO TODAY

By Kayne Pyatt, Uinta County Herald EVANSTON — At 105 years of age, little Switch Engine 4420, along with her tender, which held the coal and water, has returned to her home at the Evanston Railyards and Roundhouse.  In 1915, during WWI and the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, 4420 was brought by the Union Pacific Railroad to Evanston — a small, 47-year-old community of 3,000 residents. Over the next 43 years the engine was worked at the railyards, bringing loaded cars to the Roundhouse to be pulled by larger engines to many destinations, and the town grew to be a major railroad community. ...

Dec 16, 2020 Over the last year, hundreds of children’s books were collected on the Kent State East Liverpool Campus that were intended to be handed out during the city’s annual holiday parade. When the parade was canceled this year because of the COVID pandemic, campus employees decided to find another way to distribute the books to local youngsters. Through a project known as Season’s Readings, Kent State East Liverpool recently donated nearly 1,500 new books combined to East Liverpool’s North Elementary School, Beaver Local elementary students and to the East Liverpool Head Start p...