McKenzie Special School District’s Summer Food Service Program is open now through July 16, Monday through Friday, except for July 5-6. more

BATON ROUGE, La. (June 2) — Preston Frazier, vice president of Bank of Gleason in Gleason, Tennessee, is among 129 bankers to receive a graduation diploma Wednesday from the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University. more

McKenzie (June 10) — There is no property tax increase to fund the 2021-22 fiscal year budget for the McKenzie Special School District. The Board of Education of the McKenzie Special School District approved the budget and tax rate of $1.1844, a rate equal to the certified tax rate of more than 20 years. One of the highlights of the budget is the final $884,000 payment on the financing bond for the construction of McKenzie High School, constructed in 1998. more

McKENZIE — Bethel University’s Renaissance Regiment, the marching band, signed three 2021 graduates of West Carroll. Lainee Hawkins, Lillian Neel, and Jaycan Martin, all three members of the West Carroll Marching War Eagles, are now members of the Bethel University Regiment. more

ATWOOD — It was a larger-than-usual audience at the West Carroll Special School District Board of Education meeting on Thursday, June 3 at the West Carroll Junior/Senior High School cafeteria. Attendees were there, some to voice their concerns over the school district’s recent change in the director, and resignations of principals, coaches and teachers. more

Congratulations to Mrs. Sydney Lane’s second grade class for earning 1,000 Accelerated Reader Points in April. more

First Grade Teacher: Chase Barton Honor Roll: Heath Johnson and Taylor Little. Merit Roll: Danica Biegley, Ripken Brown, Callie Davidson, Ruger Schieman and Samantha Umstead.  more

McKENZIE — A new multi-use facility and painting the exterior of the McKenzie Elementary School are two items on the Thursday, June 10 agenda of the McKenzie Special School District Board of Education. During the meeting, the board is expected to adopt a tax rate and the budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year. more

McKENZIE (May 24)—The McKenzie Elementary School began Super Summer Academy, a summer learning camp implemented by the Tennessee Department of Education’s Learning Loss Remediation and Student Acceleration Act, on Monday. more

TENNESSEE (May 17) — On Monday, May 17, the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO) joined AAA – The Auto Club Group to grant Ashlyn Drewry the Reduce TN Crashes Scholarship Award. Ms. Drewry will receive $3,000 toward her college education for working with the THSO’s Reduce TN Crashes program to improve driver safety within her local community. more

McKENZIE (May 19) — McKenzie teachers honored the long-term service of three career educators who retired on Wednesday, May 19. Randy Thomas, assistant principal at McKenzie High School, Roxie Walker, math teacher at McKenzie Middle School, and Larry Joe Smith, coach and teacher at McKenzie High School. more

HUNTINGDON (May 20) — The Huntingdon School Board met to approve and acknowledge employment, assignments, budget, and policies for the upcoming 2021-2022 school year. All three school sites will experience changes in principals. Christy Carey, principal at Huntingdon Primary School, moves to system-wide supervisor of learning loss. Her replacement David Wilkins; Scott Carter, principal at Huntingdon Middle School, moves to technology supervisor. His replacement is Rachel Smothers Williams; and Jonathan Kee, principal at Huntingdon High School, is the new director of schools. His replacement is Porsche McClerking. more

HUNTINGDON (May 6) — High academic-achieving seventh and eighth grade students at Huntingdon Middle School were honored with a banquet hosted by Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County on Thursday, May 6. The annual banquet was held at the school’s cafetorium this year instead of the normal Baptist campus. more

McKENZIE (April 26) — McKenzie High School band members, parents, staff, boosters and supporters gathered in the cafeteria Monday for the annual banquet. more

McKENZIE (May 8) — Bethel University’s College of Arts and Sciences, College of Health Sciences and College of Professional Studies commencement ceremonies for fall 2020 and spring 2021 graduates were May 8, 10 a.m. at Wildcat Stadium. more

ATWOOD — West Carroll Medical Therapeutics Program is now certified through Tennessee Pathways, providing some grant funding while allowing high school the opportunity to gain valuable, in-hospital training. more

ATWOOD (May 6) — Preston Caldwell served his first day as the director of schools of West Carroll Special School District on Thursday, May 6. He was welcomed to the school district during the first meeting of the Board of Education during his administration. He previously was the principal at Lake County High School and prior to that, a teacher at Milan High School. He and wife, Valerie, reside in Milan. more

NEW YORK, New York (May 6) — Throughout the past seven months, 1.3 million students across North America competed on behalf of their schools to master the most words in Vocabulary.com’s 7th annual Vocabulary Bowl. Students answered 450 million questions, mastered a collective total of 36.6 million words, and expanded their lexicons in the classroom and at home. more