Mansfield students are showing their school spirit in force this week - check page 7 for a look at their activities leading up to this Saturday's Homecoming game versus Waterville. The Chamber of Commerce will host a silent auction beforehand.
The Pateros School District has announced kudos to three of its staff members for their recent recognition.
The 2013 Excellence Award winners in Pateros are Spanish teacher Jennifer Carlson, high school math and science teacher Melanie Williams, and Facility Maintenance/Operations Supervisor Paul Harris.
State-prompted early release days at the Brewster School District:
"The legislature has made difficult decisions regarding educators, administration and the budget. The State determined that school certificated and classified employees must take a 1.9 percent and administrators a 3 percent cut in salary. Due to the state's 1.9 percent salary reduction for staff an equivalent reduction of time worked will be implemented this year. Four early release days are being added to our 2012-13 calendar to compensate for lost salary. They will be identified as 'Legislative Cut Days.' Our hope is that the legislature will restore salaries for next year."
Those Legislative Cut Days, when school will be released at 11 a.m., are:
Friday, Feb. 15
Friday, April 26
Friday, May 24
Friday, June 7
This day in history - Jan. 31
1606: Guy Fawkes was executed after being convicted for his role in the "Gunpowder Plot" against the English Parliament and King James I.
1747: The first clinic specializing in the treatment of venereal diseases was opened at London Dock Hospital.
1865: In America, General Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of the Confederate armies.
1865: The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. It was ratified by the necessary number of states on December 6, 1865. The amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
1876: All Native American Indians were ordered to move into reservations.
1917: Germany announced the renewal of unlimited submarine warfare in the Atlantic, and German torpedo-armed submarines prepare to attack any and all ships, including civilian passenger carriers, said to be sited in war-zone waters.
1940: The first Social Security check was issued by the U.S. government.
1945: Private Eddie Slovik became the only U.S. soldier since the U.S. Civil War to be executed for desertion.
1950: U.S. President Harry S. Truman publicly announced his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II.
1958: The first U.S. earth satellite, Explorer I, was launched.
1971: Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on a mission to the moon
1990: The first McDonald's opened in Russia.
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