COUNTY
NEWS ONLINE - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015 - EDISON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Edison welcomes Carlisle and Smith to Darke County Campus
Edison State Community College is pleased to welcome Rachel Carlisle
and Cassie Smith to the Darke County Campus. Carlisle has joined the
campus as an Enrollment Manager while Smith has joined as a College
Resource Specialist. Carlisle, of Arcanum, comes to Edison as a
seasoned leader, most recently working for the United States Department
of Agriculture. In addition to her service with the U.S.D.A., Carlisle
also has volunteer experience with the Ohio National Guard Family
Readiness... Read
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GARST MUSEUM
Garst Celebrates Uniform Donation with “A Night at the Garst Canteen”
On Saturday, November 7, Garst Museum will rock to the Big Band sound.
The museum has received a donation of the World War II Army uniforms of
Robert L. Niswonger Sr. and his wife, Agnes Carpenter Niswonger. Agnes
played trombone in the Army Band, making the band music of that era
appropriate... Read
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Early Learning
Challenge Performance Reports released Reports on 20 states, including Ohio
The U.S. Department of Education released a report today that shows
Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge states are rapidly improving
the quality of early learning programs while enrolling more children,
especially... Read
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STATE REPRESENTATIVE JIM BUCHY
PARCC Testing Results
The preliminary results from last school year’s PARCC math and language
arts examinations are in and things don’t look good for the common
core. According to this preliminary data, only 35-40% of
elementary and middle school students who took the online test
passed. By PARCC standards, students must meet or exceed
expectations set from the common core. In an attempt to offset
these poor results, the Ohio Department... Read
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CANCER ASSOCIATION OF DARKE COUNTY
Annual Cancer Association Gospel
Sing Coming Nov. 8 Association to hold Open House Nov. 6
Multi Dove Award winning and Grammy nominated artist Christian Davis is
not only a multi-talented man of God, but the hand of God is evidently
working in his life. It is a rarity in any genre of musical
entertainment when someone... Read
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BLUEBAG MEDIA
Voter registrations are up; turnout likely to be higher
GREENVILLE – A number of voters registering for the first time were
primarily due to the petitions being signed during the summer. Also,
according to Jean Anderson, Darke County Board of Elections, the last
two weeks before the deadline there were a number of new registrations... Read
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U.S. SENATOR SHERROD BROWN
Ensuring Our Tax Dollars
are Spent on Education
Charter schools now serve 123,000 Ohio students and cost the state
approximately $1 billion a year. These schools are supposed to provide
new and innovative approaches to educating our children but, because of
mismanagement and a few bad apples, Ohio’s charter schools are becoming
a national scandal. Since 2001, state auditors have uncovered
more than $27 million... Read
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FROM
THE EDITOR... ON THE INSIDE - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015
Editor's
Photo: Get your Pet's Picture taken with SANTA CLAUS on Saturday,
November 21st. For the time and place, read the full story this
weekend. You
can check out the
Paul
Ackley
cartoon archive here.
New Community Events photo sets posted here. Sports
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