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Putnam Schools Closed For The Week, Chance For Parents To Prepare

Putnam County Schools will be closed for the rest of the week due to unsafe road conditions and temperatures forecasted to fall even further. Director of News and Public Relations Buddy Pearson said the decision ultimately came down to student safety. Pearson said Director of Schools Corby King and his team took many different voices into account before making the ... Read More »

White County Schools Holding Meeting To Prepare Parents For Kindergarten

White County Schools will hold their fall Kindergarten Ready Meeting Monday to give parents the tools to give kids a smooth transition into schools. Cyndi Vickers is District K-2 Reading and Math Instructional Coach. She said the meetings urge parents to speak positively to their children about the start of school. Vickers said encouraging learning and meeting new people can ... Read More »

White Co BOE Approves Bid For Bon De Croft Addition

The White County Board of Education awarded a $6.38 million bid Thursday night for its Bon De Croft School project. School Board Member Jayson McDonald said the bid came in just over the $6 million budget established by the board. “For me, it was lower than what I thought we were going to get,”  McDonald said. “I was afraid with ... Read More »

TSBA Upper Cumberland Fall Conference To Discuss Title IX, School Safety

Title IX, school safety, and a new third-grade retention bill expected to be hot topics for the annual Tennessee School Board Association Upper Cumberland meeting. TSBA Upper Cumberland District Director Jayson McDonald said this year’s meeting held in White County will be the first in-person meeting held in three years. He said the biggest issue will likely be regarding a ... Read More »

Rep. Williams Working With Farris On Ideas For School Safety Legislation

State Representative Ryan Williams working with Putnam County Sheriff Eddie Farris on legislation for safer schools. Williams said they are in the early stages of exploring ways for state funding to fortify schools. “We even looked into some ideas about a system by which you can have check points for SROs to make sure they are in a systematic review ... Read More »

Central View Residents Speak Out For White Co Board To Reopen School

Several residents in the Central View Community made their case to the White County School Board Tuesday to reopen its elementary school. Resident Moni Webb said the community still hurts from the school closure that occurred four-years ago. “The Central View families are more serious now than four years ago to get their school back and standing with them are ... Read More »

White BOE Chair Ends Central Subcommittee, County Use A Possibility

The White County Board of Education disbanded its Central View community subcommittee after hearing no formal plan from residents. The school board gave members of the Central View Community a year-end deadline to create a plan for the vacant school. Committee Chair Bob Young said county use could be on the table now. “The Central View property was noted during ... Read More »

Central View School Committee Discusses Future Of School Building

The White County Central View School Property Subcommittee resulted in five options for the future of the vacant building. Chair Bob Young said establishing another school, a resident operated community center, recreation options, leasing and demolition were discussed Thursday. “We’ve heard the fact that the community would like a school there,” Young said. “We have to be real about that ... Read More »

Celina Mayor Prepares Drawings To Gauge Interest For New Park

Celina Mayor Luke Collins has shared tentative drawings of a proposed park at the old high school gym property. Collins said his plans have a small splash pad as well as the largest small mouth bass statue in the world. “We’ve been in contact with the folks of the Guinness World Records and been on the internet searching for the ... Read More »