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Students head back to class

By Jerry LaVaute
Special Writer

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Students head from buses outside Belleville High School Tuesday.

yellow motorists had grown accustomed to during the summer. At 6:51 a.m., a bright yellow Morning arrived early on school bus had stopped at the Tuesday as thousands of students railroad tracks leading north to returned to their schools in the town as part of its regular safety Van Buren Public Schools district. procedure, and as early as 6:53 a.m. Alarm clocks sounded the back-toa young girl was waiting for her reality knell across bus on West Columbia the Belleville area as See more photos from Ave., in front of the day dawned warm the rst day of school the Tuscan Manor (74 degrees), foggy Apartments. on page 1-C. (not as thick as pea The high school soup), and humid (87 and the intermediate percent relative humidity). and middle schools began officially As early as 6:50 a.m., the traffic at 7:40 a.m., but many high school light at Owen and South Streets teachers and administrators were showed green, yellow and red sigat the new high school by at least nals leading to Owen Intermediate 7 a.m. School (formerly South Middle School), instead of the flashing PLEASE SEE STUDENTS/3-A

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Tara K. McCann, youth and teen services librarian for the Belleville Area District Library, loves super heroes. Shes dressed as Batgirl at comic book conventions, has her own comic book in the works and craves the hero archetype in many of the books she reads. McCann, it turns out, is a bit of a hero in her community. She doesnt put on a cape and she doesnt swing from rooftops she advocates empowering Bellevilles youth from the Fred C. Fischer Library. Since stepping into her current role in 2007, McCann has tripled the teen section in the library, introduced many new youth learning activities and has grown popularity in all of them. She has 25 copies of The Hunger Games books; five of which are signed by the author, Suzanne Collins.
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Editorial Calendar Page 6-A Page 1-C Page 1-B

Personnel shufe continues as school begins

Board of Education approves contracts for bread and milk
By Jerry LaVaute
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Death Notices Page 13-A Sports

The Van Buren Public Schools continued to see significant churn among its teaching and support staff

as the new school year for students began Tuesday. Among instructional staff, Mitzi Varda (18 years experience), Sarah Igonin (nine years), Mary Beth DeVries (six years) and

Heather Thomson terminated their employment with the school district, for reasons ranging from personal to other employment. More than offsetting these decreases among teachers was the hiring of six new instructional staff, including music teachers Cara Boden and Jason

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Cooper, Special Services personnel Brooklyn Dobis and Doris Birchmeier at Belleville High School, elementary school teacher Nicole McCraight and Owen Intermediate School

teacher Kim Henry. Four support staff employees terminated their employment, including bus drivers Jennifer Deming and Michael Smith with a combined 14 years experience, bus aide Carol Ward with 14 years experience,
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