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All-City Prom Scheduled for July

As a busy senior at South Side High School, Jamauria Paige was all set for her senior prom this spring.But the coronavirus outbreak effectively pulled the plug on her school year, her prom, and her hopes of lighting up the dance floor in a sparkly new dress.Thankfully — for Paige and ...

Kruse Plaza aims to fill prom void

AUBURN — No prom in the coronavirus era of spring 2020?No problem for Kruse Plaza of Auburn, which is organizing the Kruse Plaza Prom for June 25 and inviting high school seniors from four counties.The event will be “very responsible and carefully thought-out,” said John Kruse, a co-owner ...

NACS students see their teachers one more time

HUNTERTOWN — Most Fort Wayne-area teachers haven’t seen their students in person since March, but Northwest Allen County Schools wanted to give staff and students one more opportunity to reconnect before the end of an unorthodox year.NACS and other Fort Wayne school districts have been ...

COVID interferes with student Rotarian exchanges

Whether extracurricular activities will be back to normal at Indiana schools this fall remains to be seen, but students expecting to study abroad in August are already seeing their plans come to a halt.Rotary clubs across the state have been barred from accepting incoming students or sending ...

NACS still working on graduation plans

HUNTERTOWN — Northwest Allen County Schools still doesn’t know what this year’s Carroll High School graduation ceremony will look like but — unsurprising to most — it won’t be like years past.During a May 11 meeting of the NACS Board of School Trustees, Superintendent Chris Himsel ...

Oak View brings school festivities to students’ homes

Thanks to technology, teachers and students have been able to grasp on to the slightest bit of normalcy throughout the school day amid the COVID-19 pandemic — but nothing quite compares to in-person interaction.Although e-learning will continue through the end of the school year, staff at Oak ...

Parkview previews back-to-school precautions

Although students won’t return to their school buildings for classes until August at the earliest, Parkview Health officials believe now is the time for school corporations to think about back-to-school plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Parkview, in partnership with Greater Fort Wayne Inc. ...

School districts pass emergency-preparation resolutions

Northeast Indiana school districts are adding to their superintendents’ powers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 23, both Northwest Allen County Schools and Fort Wayne Community Schools approved resolutions to allow their respective superintendents to take certain actions in the event of a ...