With a name like "Dance Marathon," you would expect to enter the River Ridge High School gymnasium to find staggering couples with matching numbers pinned to their backs struggling to hold each other up. Actually, dancing was just one small part - and an optional one at that - of the event members of the school's Future Business Leaders of America held last Saturday. They called their fundraiser event "Dance Marathon" as more of symbolic choice than a literal description. ...more

February 14, 2009

The Newsome High School Chamber Choir, led by Jeff Bogue, was one of several area high school choirs chosen to perform a selection by Tim Janis for a WEDU television program called "Tim Janis: Celebrate America." The vocalists were recorded Nov. 11 singing Janis' arrangement of "America the Beautiful." The show will air on WEDU in March. ...more

November 19, 2008