Walking the Halls
By BETTY POWERS Principal of Parnell Elementary School
      Greetings from Parnell Elementary! School bells have rung, and boys and girls are in the classrooms. Faculty and staff have spent time bonding with children. Many teachers have already had special beginning of the year conferences or made phones calls to contact parents.
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Students of the Week
      Jasper High School Keyna Mason, a senior at Jasper High School, has been named student of the week for Oct. 1 - 5. "Keyna is an enthusiastic and attentive student and is involved in several extra-curricular activities, including varsity volleyball, radio-broadcast and Leo Club," said teacher Be...
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School lunch menus
      Jasper ISD Thursday, Oct. 4 - Steak fingers, chicken fried steak fingers, mashed potatoes, green beans, hot roll, orange, choice of milk, "cool kit" Pre-K - 6 Friday, Oct.
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Lamar's enrollment returns to pre-Hurricane Rita levels
      Lamar University's fall 2007 headcount is 10,379 students, up 4.8 percent over last fall's enrollment and just slightly below the pre-Hurricane Rita headcount of 10,595 students in the fall of 2005. The total semester credit hours students are enrolled in has risen 2.3 percent to 115,178 hours.
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We the people
     Newsboy photo/Sharon Kerr STUDENTS AT PARNELL celebrated the meaning of the U.S. Constitution at a an assembly performed by the teacher Nicole Hollis' fourth grade class.
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