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Education

  • Berg Wins BES Spelling Bee

    Stephen Berg, in the first photo, won the spelling bee at Brownstown Elementary School on Friday, earning the right to advance to the district bee in Mulberry Grove.

    In the second photo, Sierra Orechovesky thinks hard before spelling a word. In the third photo are all of the finalists for the BES spelling bee; from left to right are Berg, Orechovesky, Amber Sarchet, Kyzara Hissong, Makenzie Walk and Bryton Pruett.

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  • Kaskaskia College Honor Roll

    President’s List
    Part-Time
    • Ramsey – Alicia Beck, Tammy Bumgardner.
    • Mulberry Grove – April Betts, April Miller, Tyler Osborne.
    • Vandalia – Megan Beall, Brittney Bennett, Ima Carruthers, Jodi Elder, Jessica Evaul, Karissa Gottman, Heather Haslett, Ruth Hathaway, Holly Kershaw, Lindsay Kistler, Austyn Krueger, Nicholas Metzger, Gregory Mitchell, Deirdre Murray, Cody Robbins, Christian Schroeder, Makayla Summers, Stacey Summers, Helen Wells, Ashley Wiedau, Bryce Worker.

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  • KC Vandalia Campus

    Sign language
    The Vandalia Campus is offering an extensive series of sign language classes for both children and their caregivers.
    The classes are offered Tuesday and Thursday mornings for both 2- and 3-year-olds.
    The topics include eat and drink, clothing, play, mom and dad, pets, nice words, bedtime and many more.
    This course is open to all children and caregivers, both hearing-impaired and non-hearing-impaired.
    The cost for each four-session block is $20 per caregiver.

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  • Vandalia parent-teacher conferences are Friday

    The Vandalia School District will hold parent-teacher conferences from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. this Friday.
    Teachers will be available except during the following lunch times:
    • 11-11:30 a.m.-Okaw Area Vocational Center.
    • 11:15-11:45 a.m.-Vandalia Jefferson Primary School.
    • 11:30 a.m.-noon-Vandalia Elementary School.
    • 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.-Vandalia Junior High School.
    • Noon-12:30 p.m.-Vandalia Community High School.

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  • Honor Roll

    VANDALIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    Second Nine Weeks
    Second Grade

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  • Okaw Grad Excels At Welding School

    Levi Tessman (at right in the first photo), a 2011 graduate of Vandalia Community High School, participated in the welding program at the Okaw Area Vocational Center his junior and senior years.

    He is now  attending a 10-month program in welding at the Midwest Technical Institute in Springfield. He has already earned all eight certifications offered at MTI and is at the top of his class there. Shown with Tessman is David Koleson, welding instructor at the Okaw Center.
     

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  • Schroeder among nominees for military academies

    Congressman John Shimkus (R, Ill.-19) has announced his nominations to the four military service academies.

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  • College News

    Karin Cox received a doctorate degree in cognitive psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in December.


    Cox, who is a 1999 graduate of Vandalia Community High School, graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.
    The daughter of Rick and Jane (Hubbard) Cox, she is currently serving in a post-doctorate position at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
     

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  • Honor Rolls

    Brownstown Elementary School
    Second Quarter
    Fourth Grade
    High honors: Makenzie Walk
    Honors: Joel Blemker and Max Schraer.
    Fifth Grade
    High honors: Kyzara Hissong.
    Sixth Grade
    High honors: Stephen Berg, Zachary Logsdon and Sierra Orechovesky.
    Honors: Caitlyn Mason and Dakota White.

    Brownstown Junior-Senior High School
    First Semester
    High Honors
    Seniors-Colten Hunter.

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  • Vandalia Elementary School moving closer to its SMART Boards goal

    Vandalia Elementary School is creeping closer to its goal of obtaining modern technology that is in many ways replacing chalkboards in the classroom.

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