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Education

  • GHS let down by Lift Life

    The Lift Life Foundation has said it will not fund the Curtis Bartlett Fitness Center at Galax High School, according to School Superintendent Bill Sturgill at Tuesday night’s school board meeting.
    Lift Life is a nonprofit organization of Bodybuilding.com. The nonprofit’s mission is to upgrade high schools’ weight rooms with state of the art equipment so students can improve their fitness levels.

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  • Budget has money for 7 of 8 schools

    By LARRY CHAMBERS
    and SHAINA STOCKTON
    Staff

    INDEPENDENCE — After discussing the final details at a recent workshop, the Grayson County School Board approved an amended budget in the amount of $21.3 million at its regular meeting on June 11.
    The spending plan includes funds for only seven of Grayson’s eight schools.
    At the budget workshop June 5, Division Superintendent Kelly Wilmore said, “this has been a most difficult budget to prepare because of the lack of funds.”

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  • Parents question Baywood closure

    BAYWOOD — Since announcing last month that Baywood Elementary School might close due to lack of funding for the fiscal year 2018-19 budget, school leaders have been inundated with questions from concerned citizens.

    To address as many concerns as possible, the school board held a community meeting in the Baywood Elementary auditorium on June 6; and the result was a full house.

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  • GCHS student wins car by attending After-Prom Party

    ROANOKE ― This year and last year, churches in Independence partnered with the Roanoke Area Youth Substance Abuse Coalition (RAYSAC) to provide a safe place for students to spend time with their friends after prom.

    The benefits were two-fold: the event keeps students and the community safe by offering healthy, drug-free activities and keeping impaired drivers off of the road on prom night; and this year, a local student’s participation landed him with a safe new ride.

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  • Legg promoted to assistant superintendent

    Dr. Kristina Legg, finishing out the spring 2018 semester as the Galax Elementary principal, will shortly take up her new position as the school system’s assistant superintendent.

    She steps into the role previously filled by Rebecca Cardwell, who is retiring.

    A Dublin native, Legg graduated from Pulaski High School in 1998. “I think people thought I would go back there, but I like it better here,” she says of Galax. “It’s great.”

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  • GHS alumnus now a leader of federal agency

    Galax High School graduation speaker Darrick André Early (Class of ’94) already made a big impact at the Mt. Zion Holiness Church of God’s Black History Month celebration in February this year.

    Early, who has an impressive list of accomplishments, currently serves as the deputy regional commissioner for the National Capital Region/Federal Acquisition Service (NCR/FAS) within the General Services Administration (GSA).

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  • Student news reporters keep classmates informed

    Fifth graders at Laurel Elementary School have been up to some interesting extracurricular activities this past school year, aimed at preparing students for real world career experience.

    The Wildcat News crew live streamed its final broadcast of the year on June 1, to wish students a fun-filled summer and congratulate everyone on their accomplishments of transitioning to the next grade level.

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  • Cardwell retiring after 36 years in education

    Galax Schools’ Assistant Superintendent Rebecca Cardwell is retiring in early June after 36 years of experience in education.

    Cardwell, known for her drive to improve students’ education and friendly, soft-spoken demeanor, took a moment in her last week of employment to look back on her career.

    Born in Galax, and a GHS graduate, Cardwell pursued higher education at Virginia Tech, took on a double major in agronomy and agricultural education that netted her a degree in 1980, and immediately came back to the Twin Counties to start working in Galax.

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  • Patton to retire as GCHS principal

    INDEPENDENCE — After two years serving as principal of Grayson County High School, Robbie Patton has announced that he will retire at the end of the school year.
    In a letter to the school, Patton cited that his reasons for retiring from the position are in the interest of his family; and that he plans to explore a new calling in the near future.
    “Being a secondary school principal has been the most challenging and rewarding job I have ever had the privilege of holding,” Patton said in his letter.

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  • Shortage may lead to Baywood School closure

    INDEPENDENCE — In a statement on social media to parents on Wednesday evening, Schools Superintendent Kelly Wilmore announced that their budget’s shortfall for the 2018-19 school year, in addition to other factors, has led the schools to consider one of three options, the most probable of the three being to close Baywood Elementary School before the beginning of the 2018-19 school year.
    The other proposed options were to close Fairview Elementary School, or to cut seven positions and seven programs at the Career and Technical Education (CATE) Center. 

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