“You Can’t Take It With You”
Mantua - Crestwood High School Drama Club presents “You Can’t Take It with You”. The play will take place November 2 and 3, beginning...
G-Men – Bombers Football, The End of an Era
The best rivalry in Portage County is coming to an end this Friday when the Garfield G-Men and the Windham Bombers will play their...
Windham Celebrates Homecoming
Last Friday, Windham High School held their Annual Homecoming festivities. The event started Monday with Spirit week, which had the students dressing up to...
Crestwood School Board Special Meeting Held
Mantua - A special Crestwood School Board meeting was held at the High School on September 19 to discuss the $1.2 - $1.8 million...
Special Year Classes Honored at Alumni Banquet
Garrettsville - The Alumni Association of the James A. Garfield Local Schools met for its seventh annual dinner meeting on Saturday, September 15 with...
School Board News: Crestwood Schools Face Sizeable Budget Cuts
Mantua - “Crestwood enrollment has been declining, as larger graduating classes are replaced by smaller elementary classes. In the period of 2003 - 2013,...
2012 J.A. Garfield Homecoming Court
Pictured above are this years Homecoming Court for James. A. Garfield High School.From left to right are (back row) : Simeon Brown, Austin Dezort,...
Nyaah, Nyaah, N-Nyaah, Nyaah
On the first day of school for James A. Garfield School District, retirees--teachers, tutors, custodians, bus drivers, secretaries, cafeterians, et al, were all invited...
Safety Comes First at Crestwood’s First Safety Town Program
Mantua - According to statistics from the Center for Disease Control, more children die every year due to unintentional injuries than from all diseases...
Windham BOE Hires New Treasurer
Windham - While students were enjoying their summer break, the Board of Education (BOE) was hard at work looking for a new treasurer, which...
GCRTA Grants Awarded to Three Students
The Geauga County Retired Teachers Association awarded three $1,500 grants to deserving college seniors at their August 7th picnic supper at Observatory Park in...
“Food and Hunger” Theme For Hiram College in 2012/13
Hiram – There is no more recurrent and pervasive problem in the world than food and world hunger, and the entire campus of Hiram...
Brick by Brick Fund Reaches Mile Stones
Windham - This year’s Brick by Brick Celebration Dinner and Fundraiser held at Windham High School helped the Brick by Brick Endowment Fund reach...
Marching Pride Preview, a Hit
James A. Garfield (JAG) Marching Pride kicked-off their marching season with a band preview last Friday night at JAG Stadium. The students spent 12...
Garfield G-Men’s Tyburski Selected For Blue-Grey National Super Combine
Josh Tyburski was selected to attend the Blue-Grey National Super Combine at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, OH. Towards...
Garrettsville Chamber Awards Scholarships
Garrettsville - On June 6th members of the Garrettsville Area Chamber met for their annual scholarship luncheon. Three seniors from J.A. Garfield were selected...
JAG Teacher Earns National Award for Teaching Tolerance
Just last Sunday, the James A. Garfield High School Class of 2012 celebrated its commencement exercises, the students officially closing the door on their...
Reaching Beyond at GHS
Garrettsville - James A. Garfield senior Lauren Greathouse has worked for approximately six months on the new banners that are hanging proudly on the...
Listen Up!
Music Lovers, listen up! James A. Garfield instrumentalists will be on display Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. for their season finale. The...
Katherine Thomas Elementary Pre-school still going Strong
Windham - In days gone by, folks who were able to send their youngsters to a pre-school program were usually of the elite sector...
Harlem Ambassadors Wow the Crowd
Marty Hill Court was filled beyond capacity last Friday night as folks from around the region came out to see the Harlem Ambassadors take...
Keeping Kids Safe
The Garfield MVP's Keep our Kids Safe Committee will be very busy over the next few months. The committee is working hard towards their...
And speaking of post-graduate success….
You know how, in literature there’s this thing called foreshadowing, where something that happens in the story is, like, a clue to what’s going...
Soup’d up Jazz, a Success
Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield Music Department presented the Third Annual Soup’d up Jazz Festival Saturday night at the elementary school. The fundraiser...
Intermediate Students Participate In Math Tournaments
Garrettsville - G.I.S. students participated in the Portage County Math 24 Tournament on February 24th, 2012. Sixth grade participants included Andrew Morrissey, Kevin Splinter...
Portage County Teams Fare Well At State Tournament
The Ohio State University played host to the OHSAA state wrestling tournament which marked its 75th anniversary this past weekend. The OHSAA sponsors one...
Windham Board of Education News
Windham - Windham Board of Education met for their regularly scheduled meeting with all board members, including Treasurer Dawn Altman and Superintendent Gregg Isler...
Garrettsville -vs- Windham: Rivals For A Cause
Garrettsville - Two backyard rivals take their competition to a new level. Windham and Garfield schools last year decided to make change in the...
Garfield Band Excels at Solo & Ensemble Competition
Mantua - On Saturday, February 4, “a great group of band students represented GHS with class and quality performances,” said James A . Garfield...
