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By Jef Rietsma Journal Correspondent There are 1,700 fewer tires taking up space in barns, garages and sheds, or littering the countryside, in St. Joseph County. Tires were among the most common items taken to a household waste and electronics collection Saturday at the fairgrounds in Centreville. Pat Kulikowski, secretary St. Joseph County Solid Waste Committee, which organized the event, was unable to provide an explanation for the unprecedented number of tires turned in Saturday.  Regardless, she said it’s a good sign that people save what they have and are conscientious about disposing...

More Mesa County residents have now received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine than there have been positive COVID-19 cases. As of Tuesday’s weekly report from Mesa County Public Health, 14,820 residents have received both doses of one of the COVID-19 vaccines. In terms of first shots administered — which surpassed the total infections weeks ago — 31,435 residents have gotten their first shot. That number is well more than double the number of infections recorded since the pandemic began. To date, Mesa County Public Health reports 13,537 total COVID-19 cases. That’s a jum...

Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting was adjourned just moments after starting because a woman refused to wear her mask. Board President Tom Parrish began the meeting promptly at 6 p.m. before asking audience members to wear their masks. Jacqueline Anderson refused, claiming that she has a medical condition. A back-and-forth ensued before Parrish adjourned the meeting two minutes after it began. Audience members then began arguing with Parrish from across the room before things settled down. The district provided Anderson with a face shield, which she agreed to wear so that the meeting c...

When Brian Hill first stepped into his fourth-grade classroom in the Austin Independent School District in Texas, he had no plans to be anything more than a teacher. He chose

Diana Sirko hasn’t left her post as superintendent of School District 51 yet, but a successor is already lined up. The Board of Education on Wednesday unanimously agreed that current Assistant Superintendent Brian Hill was the best person for that role, and selected him to be the future superintendent. Hill has been with the district since July 2019. “I had to ask myself, ‘Would I feel comfortable putting a generation of students in classrooms across the systems with you as the leader of this district?’ ” said Tom Parrish, board president. “There’s no questi...