All parents of the Morton School District are invited to attend “Meet the Teacher” activities at Morton High School beginning at 6:25 p.m. Monday.
While maintenance workers in Morton District 709 were busy over the summer, they were not as busy as in previous summers.
District 709 is looking for an architectural firm that will design the renovations the district wants in three elementary schools.
Superintendent Roger Kilpatrick told School Board members Tuesday that a request for qualifications will be published Thursday, with the applications due Aug. 20.
Stephanie Waller, 18, and her 17-year-old sister Annah Waller, are spending part of their summer vacation abroad — but they are leaving their parents at home.
The Wallers, both students at Morton High School, are among a group of 22 area teenagers participating in Friends of Friedrichshafen, a Peoria-based youth exchange program. The program sends teens to Peoria’s sister city Friedrichshafen, Germany, where they stay with a host family for three weeks. Next year, the roles will be reversed and teens from Friedrichshafen will stay with families in the Peoria area.
Area youth have benefited for years from community-based 4-H programs. Now, special interest clubs are being offered through 4-H, which bring children and families with common interests together.
“They are still a 4-H club, but they are out of the box,” said Mary Spahr, the University of Illinois Tazewell County Extension office’s regional youth development educator.
The Morton District 709 School Board of Education approved Lee Hoffman as the principal for Lettie Brown Elementary this week.
The masses will grow in the already-crowded Morton High School cafeteria once closed campus lunch extends to the Junior class for the 2010-11 school year.
The Morton High School band is off to a solid start in its campaign to raise $10,000 in order to open an endowment fund with the Morton Community Foundation to help fund some of the band’s future needs.
To get it all started, more than 25 students joined at JH Car Wash to raise money for the endowment fund June 22 afternoon following heavy rains could have made for a soggy fundraiser.
Bob Bardwell, principal at Lettie Brown, will leave his post for Eureka next year.
Although Morton District 709 enrollment totals were lower in 2009 than they were 30 years ago, the amount of students entering the district in the past two years is leaving district officials wondering if the trend is changing.
The Morton High School Band will host a car wash at JH Car Wash from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday (rain date Wednesday) as the kick-off for establishing a Morton Community Foundation permanent endowment for the band.
At its June 1 meeting, the Morton District 709 school board unanimously approved a bid to replace the gym floor at Morton Community High School.
“We started out thinking we had a $30,000 repair cost versus a $280,000 new floor,” said superintendent Roger Kilpatrick. “The question was do we want to invest the $30,000 or do we want to replace the floor now, because it was part of our long-range plan anyway.”
Did we capture your grad during Sunday's ceremony at Morton High School? Browse a slew of photos taken during the ceremony.
This weekend’s “Lay Up a Treasure” event at Morton Junior High School offered children a chance to stay up late and shoot baskets all night long.
Out of the 65 participants there were a total of 125 shifts, each lasting one hour. The event began at 7 p.m. Friday night and ran through 7 p.m. Saturday — 24 hours of nothing but net.
Jefferson Elementary School may not be on the chopping block just yet.
Superintendent Roger Kilpatrick gave his recommendation on the District 709 facilities renovation/construction project at the district’s school board meeting May 4. His suggestion would still close Jefferson’s doors, but not for about six years.
Photos from the Red Carpet prom event at Morton High School.
The Morton High School spring musical “South Pacific” will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Bertha Frank Performing Arts Center at MHS.
The Morton District 709 school board is picking up the pace on determining how input from a community committee and survey of residents should impact construction and renovation plans throughout the district.
At the board’s April 20 meeting, Superintendent Roger Kilpatrick presented two possible timelines for presenting information regarding the possibility of placing a referendum on either the Nov. 2 or April 5, 2011, ballot.
Morton High School junior and senior students witnessed the tragic events of a prom night disaster Thursday afternoon.
