Amazing Support For Backpack Program
Newton Falls - The Newton Falls Community Backpack Program continues to provide supplemental food and a book for qualifying K-6 students at Newton Falls...
Mobile Dentists to Visit James A. Garfield Elementary
On March 8th and 9th 2017, The Mobile Dentists will come to the Elementary with all the necessities to do x-rays, exams and routine...
J.A. Garfield Students Are “Too Good for Drugs”
Garrettsville - Kindergarten students learn the importance of keeping their bodies healthy during an interactive “Too Good for Drugs” lesson at James A. Garfield...
JA Garfield Expands Accelerated Offerings For 2017/18 School Year
The James A. Garfield Local Schools have always taken great pride in providing an outstanding education for every student. The District released a Quality...
Crestwood School Board News
Mantua - At their first meeting of 2017, the Board voted to elect Debbie Soltisz as the 2017 School Board President, with Todd Monroe...
New Projects Bring Savings and Facelift to Garfield Schools
Garrettsville - If you have been in our buildings you know that our custodial and maintenance staff do an outstanding job of keeping them...
Read To Succeed National Winners
Windham - Mr. Pennell’s grade 6 class earned the Read to Succeed Award from Achieve 3000. Achieve 3000 is a program where students receive...
Winners of Middle School Spelling Bee Will Advance To County
Garrettsville - On December 21, the James A. Garfield Middle School held its annual Spelling Bee. Words like clodhopper, precursor, heredity, and opinionated...
GHS Art Club Lockergram Fundraiser
Garrettsville- Want a creative way to ask someone to Prom? Want to wish a son or granddaughter happy birthday? Want to send a football...
News from Garfield Schools
Garrettsville - Last week, our safety plans were put to a test, and it was clear that we were prepared on all fronts. The...
GES FLL Zebra Mussels Wins Judges Award At First Lego League Competition
Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield Elementary School robotics team, Team GES FLL Zebra Mussels, competed at the University of Akron on Saturday, January...
Hiram College receives $1 million gift from Paul and Maxine Frohring Foundation
Hiram – Hiram College received a year-end $1 million cash gift from trustee Paula Frohring, through the Paul and Maxine Frohring Foundation. This is...
Garfield Student Council Decorates McDonald’s
Garrettsville - JAG Student Council is the student government that supports positive changes for the students and those within our school community. They run...
Crestwood School Board News
Mantua - At the last board meeting, the school board unanimously approved the placement on the May 2017 ballot $23,000,000 improvement bonds and the...
Windham Veterans Day Assembly
Windham - The Windham Junior and Senior High held a Veterans Day Assembly honoring those who have served on Friday, November 11 at 8:30...
“Acting Can Be Murder”
Garrettsville - Dolores Gordon (Clare Workman), who loves the stage, has always dreamed of stardom, but the only role she ever seems to land...
Hundreds Crowd Main Street to Cheer On G-Men
Garrettsville - Hundreds of Garfield G-Men fans and family members shut down Main Street in a fantastic show of support for the 2016 football...
James A. Garfield Defines Excellence In Core Beliefs
The James A. Garfield Schools have always viewed themselves as the cornerstone of an excellent community. Last spring, JAG staff worked to define what...
Drum Lessons @ GES
Students at the James A. Garfield Elementary School were treated to a fascinating program featuring Brother Olugbala Manns, teacher of African drumming at Hiram...
Crestwood School Board News
At their last meeting, the Crestwood School Board recognized two special employees of the month. First up, Crestwood Primary Principal Cindy Ducca honored first...
Windham High School Students Participate In YSU Math Fest
Windham - On Thursday, October 13th, five students from Windham High School attended the Youngstown State University MathFest. Windham has been attending this event...
CHS Program Receives Major Grant
Mantua - Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’re familiar with the phrase, “like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.” Recently, Garrettsville...
Educators Experience the “Wonders of Watersheds”
Right about….there. Right? Yep, it was gone. I squinted in an effort to improve the accuracy of my reading. Indeed this was the place where...
James A. Garfield High School’s Amazing Athletes
Garrettsville - Congrats to Garfield’s two state champs Edie Svonavec and Lauren Jones in this year’s track and field competition down in Columbus.
James A. Garfield Schools Year In Review
Garrettsville - On or around June 1st of every year, children begin to realize summer break is quickly approaching for the James A. Garfield Schools. After nine long months of exerting academic rigor, athletic competition, artistic prowess and community service, our students gain a little extra energy as the end of the school year nears. While our students are excited for the long summer break, our staff begins to take an emotional roller coaster ride. They are excited to begin planning another year with students, but are sad to see a group of familiar students move to the next grade. They are inspired by the speeches of our graduating seniors, but feel a brief sense of emptiness as the seniors walk out our doors for the final time. Whether you are a student or staff member, the one common feeling we all share is a sense of pride in what we have accomplished this year. Here is a quick glance in the 2014/15 rearview mirror...
Windham Hires New Principal for KT
Windham - It has been a busy few months at Windham Schools, as individuals announced their retirement or resignation, leaving the board the daunting...
Trike-A-Thon Raises Money for St. Jude’s Hospital
This is the preschool’s eighth year hosting this event and over the years students have raised more than $12,500 for the children and families of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Garfield Elementary Raises $1836.50 in “Roundup For A Cure”
Garrettsville - GES students in grades K-6 participated in an all day walk-a-thon Friday, May 22nd, entitled “Roundup For A Cure”. Students brought donations totaling $1836.50 which was donated to the Friends of Melana Foundation
Crestwood Local Schools Receives Nearly $1 Million Grant From U.S. Department of Education
“We applied for this grant because we recognized a trend in student discipline referrals among low socioeconomic students and among those students who were experiencing hardship in the family, including unemployment, divorce, and parents being deployed overseas,” said Toth. “Students’ personal and social needs must be successfully addressed during the key elementary years if they are to succeed in the future.”
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Clawfoot Couch Plays Unexpected Role in College Senior Project
College-level senior projects typically focus on the future career objective of the student who is about to graduate and enter the adult workforce. But for Kent State University senior and Garrettsville native Aaron Cain (JAG Class of 2011), his senior project took him way outside his box and taught him unexpected life lessons.
