Jim Fish NORTH BRANCH Each year, school district Boards of Education formally evaluate the district’s superintendent, and last month, the North Branch Area Schools (NBAS) Board of Education did just that with superintendent Jim Fish. During an executive session that took place Dec. 12, the NBAS Board deemed Fish’s performance in executing the duties
North Branch varsity baseball coach Chuck Jacobson, shown here coaching last spring, has set his retirement into motion. He’ll step back and become the bench coach for the team this season. Photo by Kylee Rankin NORTH BRANCH After 30 years of coaching JV football and varsity baseball at North Branch Area Schools, Chuck Jacobson
LAPEER COUNTY 2022 saw a focus among Lapeer County school districts on safety and security. Topping their to-do lists in that regard was ALICE training. Beginning in the back half of the 2021-2022 school year, districts turned to ALICE training as a way to prepare for the unthinkable. ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate)
Dryden eighth-grade students Atticus Podvin, Santiago Perales, Luke Taylor and Ariela Perales work on their messages of support that will be delivered to Oxford Community Schools next week. Photos provided LAPEER COUNTY Fifty-one weeks ago tragedy struck Oxford High School when four students were killed in a shooting. In the intervening year since, the