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Education

  • GHS football field replacement underway

    Staff Report

    Work is underway at Galax High School, where the grass on the football/soccer field is being replaced with an artificial surface. The project is expected to be completed in time for football season this fall.

    The project is being paid for through the school system’s capital project fund, and the price tag is expected to be around $879,000, which is roughly $250,000 below original estimates, according to Galax Schools Superintendent Bill Sturgill.

    Sports Construction Management of Lexington, N.C., is doing the work.

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  • Galax to name new fitness center for Deputy Bartlett

    Plans are in the works for a fitness center at Galax High School that would be named in honor of Carroll County Deputy Curtis Bartlett.

    Bartlett, who was killed in a line of duty crash in March, was a GHS graduate and was very passionate about nutrition and fitness throughout his life.

    According to GHS Principal Justin Iroler, the project has been in discussion for about a month-and-a-half. Bartlett’s father, Sam, contacted school officials after the Lift Life Foundation reached out to him.

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  • Carroll budget process questioned

    HILLSVILLE – The Carroll Board of Supervisors adopted and appropriated the fiscal year 2018 spending plan by a split vote at its June 12 meeting, after a debate about the county’s budgeting process.
    Two supervisors, one of whom served on the budget committee, did not vote for the budget.
    During the meeting Laurel Fork supervisor and budget committee member Joshua Hendrick made a motion to approve and appropriate the total budget, including the county general fund, law library fund and previously adopted school budget, in the total of $84.7 million.

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  • CCPS announces new schools superintendent

    HILLSVILLE – The Carroll County School Board announced the county’s new superintendent at its regular monthly meeting on June 15. Dr. Shirley A. Perry, the current Director of Human Resources for Pulaski County Schools, will fill the vacancy left by retiring superintendent Dr. Strader Blankenship.

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  • Law promotes alternatives to suspending students

    Capital News Service

    Suspension from school has long been linked to academic failure.
    Students are away from the classroom for up to several days, missing out on material taught in class and falling behind. Meanwhile, assignments pile up, making a difficult situation even worse.

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  • 'Food security' grant will help local families

    Staff Reports

    Summer can be a tough time for low-income families, when their children lose access to free or reduced-price school meals.

    A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Nutrition Service will provide thousands of students and their families in Galax, Grayson County and six other Southwest Virginia school divisions with increased food security during the summer.

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  • Self-worth presentation for kids earns student national award

    Staff Report

    As they read the list of the five scholarship winners on April 30 at the culmination of the Moose Youth Awareness Congress in Kenosha, Wisc., Houston Dixon stood holding hands with two of her closest friends.

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  • Local school buses require safety retrofit

    The Virginia Department of Education has notified the Commonwealth’s 132 school divisions that as many as 4,000 school buses may need retrofitting to install a safety device that prevents the parking brake from accidentally disengaging.

    School officials said that a total of 23 buses in Galax, Carroll and Grayson need retrofitting for the brake interlock.

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  • Galax school spending questioned

    A stringent cross-examination of the Galax school system’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year led the May 8 Galax City Council meeting.

    A public hearing for the budget was the first item under old business; there were no public speakers.

    The $15.1 million school budget — with $3.99 million in local operating funds and no debt service — was passed by all council members who were present. John Garner was absent.

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  • CCHS grads take next step

    HILLSVILLE — More than 280 Carroll County seniors took their first steps towards life after high school at commencement exercises May 20.

    A full grandstand of parents, grandparents, family and friends watched the ceremony, which took place at Tommy Thompson Field.

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