School paves the way for ‘New Tech’Officials with the Lincoln Parish School System are now recruiting current eighth-grade students for the New Tech program at Ruston High, which is scheduled to start at the beginning of the 2010-11 school year.
School officials are now officially identifying the program as New Tech @ Ruston. They will introduce the program to ninth-grade students, and the program will later expand to include other grades. Those same school officials, however, can only accept 72 students for the first year of the program. They want the program to start small, said Superintendent Danny Bell.
Students who wish to participate in the program for their freshman year at Ruston High need not meet any high academic requirements, but they must submit an application form before March 19. Many students are competing to enter the program, and school officials might use a lottery system to choose students, said Project ACHIEVE Coordinator Cathi Cox, who will direct the New Tech program. »
Dubach election approaches
On March 27, Dubach will go to the polls to decide whether to keep the town’s police chief as an elected position or to allow it to become an appointed position.
Mayor Margaret Rogers said most towns similar to Dubach begin with an elected police chief, but many are switching the position to an appointed one. This trend is part of the reason Dubach has decided to bring the vote to its constituents.
“Most of the towns are changing right now,” Rogers said. “One reason is it allows the council, with legal opinion, to set qualifications for the chief.” »
Inge’s drama set in 1950s Kansas to emerge at Dixie
Romantic moments, sloppy dancing and friends fighting will be among the scenes presented by local teens and adults at the Dixie Center for the Arts this week.
Beginning Thursday, Ruston Community Theater presents William Inge’s “Picnic,” a drama set in a small Kansas town in the 1950s.
The show reveals the story of how lives are changed when a handsome, mysterious stranger jumps off a train and shakes things up. »
Recycling meeting in works
The week of St. Patrick’s Day just got even greener.
On the heels of the announcements for the Great American Clean-Up and Keep Lincoln Beautiful Community Clean-Up Event as well as the Adopt-A-School “Go Green!” projects scheduled in conjunction with the holiday, citizens are bringing recycling back to the forefront.
As a follow-up to a meeting held at the Civic Center Peach Suite in June 2009, recycling advocates are rallying again at 6 p.m. March 15 in the Waggoner Room of the Thomas Assembly Center. »
Ruston mourns Faulk’s passing
Ruston is mourning the loss of one of its leading citizens following the death of former Ruston Daily Leader Publisher Clarence E. Faulk.
Faulk passed away at his residence on Friday at the age of 101.
Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday at Kilpatrick Funeral Home with funeral services set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Trinity Methodist Church. »
