Callie Chitwood
Daily American Republic
NewsSeptember 30, 2002
Festival ends with afternoon of gospel musicThe three-day City of Roses Music Festival wrapped up Sunday with an afternoon of gospel music at Riverfront Park. Despite the small crowd of around 50 people, there was plenty of foot-tapping and enthusiastic applause during the festival's final act, the Sitze Fam...NewsSeptember 24, 2002
The lunch crunchCentral High School students may have lost their long-standing open campus lunch policy with the completion of the new $18 million facility, but they gained a seemingly endless amount of choices in the school cafeteria. As with almost everything in the new high sch...NewsSeptember 23, 2002
Students, staff cope with crowded cafeteriaThe lack of space in the cafeteria at Central Junior High has kitchen staff scrambling to prepare food and students rushing to eat before the next lunch shift arrives. "Sometimes we don't get to finish lunch because the next shift comes and we have to go to the gym...NewsSeptember 19, 2002
Parking, trash troubles fade from viewAfter years of dealing with litter-strewn lawns, loud music and illegal parking, Dan Rau couldn't have been happier to see Central High School pack up and move to its new location at 1000 Silver Springs Road. "God bless Matt Kiefner and Kiefner Bros. Construction f...NewsSeptember 17, 2002
Safety hazards, lack of supplies cause of concern for teachersLocal representatives from the Community Teachers Association and National Education Association reeled off a long list of issues to Cape Girardeau School District's board of education during the board's meeting Monday night. Brenda Woemmel, junior high social stud...NewsSeptember 16, 2002
New Central High dedicated in ceremonyThe Cape Girardeau School District officially dedicated on Sunday the new $18 million Central High School, which a U.S. senator described as "spacious, open, colorful and inviting." About 450 school employees, students and members of the public attended the dedicat...NewsSeptember 15, 2002
Checking the MAP Local districts received their spring MissouriAfter five years of Missouri Assessment Program testing, public school districts are finding the state's annual goal of increasing the number of satisfactory students while lifting low-performing children out of the bottom scoring levels is a tough one to maintain....NewsSeptember 9, 2002
District fair draws out the best in petsIt was just the type of situation Liberty the llama likes best -- lots of people giving her lots of attention. The four-and-a-half-foot-tall llama was just one of many pets strutting their stuff Sunday afternoon during the annual pet parade at the SEMO District F...NewsSeptember 6, 2002
Enrollment falls in Jackson, up for Cape schoolsAfter more than seven years of enrollment jumps, the Jackson School District is facing the possibility of no growth or even a decrease this year. Meanwhile, its neighboring school district to the east, Cape Girardeau, broke a long string of enrollment decreases wi...NewsSeptember 5, 2002
Traffic flow goes slow as Central road woes continueThe early morning scene at Central High School had a distinct familiarity about it Wednesday for hundreds of students and parents waiting in bumper-to-bumper traffic for the second day in a row. With only one campus entrance accessible to most, school officials say...Advertisement
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