Allison Veine: Allison has been a long term substitute at Madison Elementary for the last five months. She has 20 years of teaching experience and extensive work with early elementary. Beth Adams: Beth comes to Madison Elementary School with extensive experience with preschool, kindergarten and first grade. Leah Antal: Leah has serve as long term [...]
MANISTEE — The county’s largest school district will be holding commencement exercises at 7 p.m. on Saturday evening when Manistee High School will handing out diplomas to 121 graduates. All the activities will be held in the Manistee High School gymnasium. School officials say the class of 2013 has left its mark on the district. [...]
MANISTEE — When students return to the classroom at Manistee Area Public Schools next fall they are going find plenty of new faces in the hallways to greet them. Board of education members took action on Tuesday evening to hire 10 new teachers for the 2013-14 school year. Last fall the district offered qualifying teachers [...]
Trista Fair, the CASMAN Academy Student of the Week, poses next to the sign proclaiming the school drive being named for her. Trista was nominated by the teachers and staff at CASMAN Academy with the following comments: “A hard worker, good writer, and is respectful”, “Trista works hard and is polite. She tends to be [...]
MANISTEE — The National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project board of directors may be based out of Washington, D.C., but they are extremely familiar with Manistee Area Public Schools. For the past 15 years Connie Josvai’s class at Kennedy Elementary School has been participating in this national program and accumulated some impressive results. “Our students [...]
Cub Scout Liam Brown, 7, a Jefferson Elementary School first grade student visited the offices of the Manistee News Advocate on Tuesday to take a tour to earn his Tiger Cub badge. He is a member of Pack 269 and during his visit News Advocate editor Michele Graves showed him how a newspaper is put [...]
Some people will not admit it, but Manistee County is a pretty special place to live. In today’s “me generation” world where everyone seems to focus on how something will benefit them, the people of Manistee County may stand alone in the way they show their support of others in need. I have said it [...]
MANISTEE — Sixteen students will be receiving their diplomas during the commencement exercises this year at Manistee Catholic Central. Manistee Catholic Central High School principal Jan Bigalke said everything is in place for graduation ceremonies to be held at 7 p.m. on Friday evening in the school gymnasium. “It has been a frantic week as [...]
MANISTEE — Manistee Intermediate School District is moving forward in its cooperation efforts with other schools. Crosby delivered that report to the ISD board of education on Monday saying things are moving forward in a positive manner. The ISD superintendent initiated meetings between area superintendents and their respective board of education presidents in the past [...]
SCOTTVILLE — Voters in the West Shore Community College district will be asked to renew a 0.7116 mill operating millage on Aug. 6 following a 6-0 vote taken Monday afternoon by the college board of trustees. The current millage approved by voters in 2007 will expire at the end of the year. This millage amounts [...]