Annie Johnson learned how to write her name in Arabic, Daffol Ott taught students how to speak a few German phrases and Juan Lopez was happy to speak about his native Guatemala.
Administrators of Catholic schools threw their support Tuesday behind a proposal that would allow students in failing public schools to receive scholarships for private schools subsidized by state tax credits.
Carthage senior Kaylee Morgan hasn’t done hurdles since she was in junior high, and she’s never competed in the javelin throw since the event is not sanctioned in Missouri at the high school level.
Carthage’s best start so far this year put Mt. Vernon in an early hole, and the Tigers were able to hold off a feisty Mountaineers team and a barrage of three pointers in the second half to stay perfect at home with a 72-63 victory Tuesday night.
Carthage Kiwanis Club members, assisted by their Carthage High School Key Club counterparts, are working to bring a classic carousel back to life.
It didn’t take long before I started receiving responses to a sports column last week in which I expressed my disappointment of Carthage High School’s student section at home basketball games.
There was cheering, jumping and even head-banging as Carthage students rocked their lunch hour with Camryn.
Carthage residents have the chance to support the 2012 Project Graduation and wear a cool shirt at the same time.
The last home game for the Carthage boys basketball team was Monday, Jan. 16, and the Tigers won’t be home again until Jan. 31, a week from today.
High school students in Southwest Missouri are invited to submit entries for the annual Society of Professional Journalists essay contest.
When you’ve been playing softball since the age of three, it’s hard to imagine a life without the sport.
Almost every single home basketball game I’ve been to this season for the Carthage boys team, I’ve seen the same things.
Monday’s Carthage R-9 Board of Education was a first for the local board members, instead of packets of paper documents, the board had laptop computers in front of them.
With the state’s March 1 deadline looming, Carthage School Superintendent Blaine Henningsen presented the draft of a policy to the R-9 Board of Education governing electronic communication between students and school staff.
The students stood with pride as they represented their homelands Saturday evening.
Head coach Steve Ray and the Carthage boys basketball team knew the level of athleticism Carl Junction would bring to Carthage High School Monday night.
Halfway through the first quarter Monday night, the Carthage girls basketball team was trailing visiting Joplin by a point.
Today is the final day to file for election to seats on the Carthage City Council and the Carthage School Board.
In the first of four tours of Carthage R-9 school facilities, residents saw bleachers that are sliding or rotting at the 60-year-old football field, tennis courts that are cracking, and a baseball field that dates from the 1930s and meets almost no modern codes.
