Having more students earn honors diplomas was the focal point of an update by Northwest Allen County Schools Superintendent Chris Himsel during a Jan. 25 meeting of the NACS Board of School Trustees.“Our goals are basically to maintain our graduation rates and increase the number of students ...

Southwest Allen County Schools Superintendent Phil Downs has announced he will retire at the end of the 2021 calendar year.Downs made the announcement at the Jan. 19 meeting of the SACS School Board. The district released a statement to that effect, noting that Downs’s education career spans ...

For one Carroll student, weekends these days consist of traveling the country and sharing the company of Olympians. Bremen Butler, a sophomore at Carroll, is looking to match the achievements of her peers in air rifling — and she’s already on her way.Butler is coming off a gold-medal ...

Based on guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Northwest Allen County Schools has reduced the duration of quarantines for students and employees who had close contact with a person testing positive for COVID-19.The district received approval to reduce the number of ...

It may seem like eons ago, but many milestones were reached in Northwest Allen County Schools business in the two-and-a-half months of the year before schools first shut down in-person learning on March 16.Despite students being absent from buildings for much of 2020, the district made headway ...

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The holidays came early for Oak View Elementary School students and staff. The Northwest Allen County elementary school received a surprise gift in the mail from Sandy Geisler, owner of Culver’s restaurants located at 3510 E. Dupont Road and 1425 W. Washington Center Road in Fort Wayne.“We ...