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Mauston School District Puts Finishing Touches on Referendum Project Plan The Mauston School District referendum project is beginning to finalize.  The District will update Tech Ed rooms, expand and renovate iLEAD Charter rooms, as well as help with traffic flow and drainage at the high school.  The referendum would also help with building updates to Olson Middle, Grayside Elementary, and Lyndon Station Elementary schools.  The crown jewel of the referendum project would be the new elementary school being built at the Districts main campus near the high and middle schools.   The new elem...

dgau@marshallindependent.com Photos by Deb Gau Bart Johnson held a tap steady while Blanca Chile-Chavez helped hammer it in. Fourth-grade students at West Side Elementary have been learning about how maple syrup is made, and on Friday Bart and Kaia Johnson helped the kids get some hands-on experience in tapping maple trees near the school and the Marshall National Guard Armory. Below, two groups of students helped set up a total of three taps. First, Johnson drilled a small hole in the tree trunks, and then students hammered in spouts to collect the sap. MARSHALL — Making maple syrup all s...

The Roanoke School Board decided Tuesday to postpone a vote approving the school district’s 2022-26 capital improvement plan due to lingering questions about the selection process and concerns that crucial projects may be excluded. The board will vote at its next regular meeting on March 8. Multiple school board members said they wanted to see improvements at Westside Elementary included in the plan. They also asked questions about the selection process, concerned other needs may have been missed. “I just don’t want to miss anything in terms of school needs,” Natasha Saund...

100 YEARS AGO January 27, 1921 Sheriff H. C. Topping last Monday morning swooped down on Mr. and Mrs. J.O. Jones who live on Dry Creek, about 25 miles from Madras, and who, it was alleged were engaged in the illicit brewing of whiskey at the R.P. Harvey place about a quarter of a mile from the Jones place. In addition to about two quarts of the far-famed "shine," he brought to Madras a copper still of about 25 or 30 gallons capacity and left at the place about 35 gallons of raisin mash. The still was found in operation, with a glowing fire underneath and the moonshine dripping from it. The ca...

Claremore Public Schools Superintendent Bryan Frazier says he excited by the progress made following voters approving a $41.5 million bond nearly two years ago.