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Students gathered outside of Spruce Mountain High School in Jay on Monday evening to protest the Regional School Unit 73 School Board’s decision to ban winter sports.
Andrea Swiedom/Franklin Journal
Spruce Mountain sophomore Lucas Towers is grateful the school board did an about-face and voted to allow winter sports to begin, but he also saw it as kind of a civics lesson.
The Regional School Unit 73 board of directors voted Tuesday night to allow low- and moderate-risk sports this winter, reversing its decision on Dec. 10 when it voted 6-5 not to allow winter sports in the district. The students responded by holding a rally at the middle and high schools on Dec. 14.