Education

    The Big Island Emergency Crew has donated a used ambulance to Bedford Science and Technology Center (BSTC).

    “It will be in daily use by the students,” said BSTC supervisor Kim Halterman.
    The school’s EMT students will not be running emergency calls in it. Students get real world experience on calls with actual rescue squads. The ambulance will be used as an amplification of classroom work.

    In the seventh and deciding round, she guessed.

    Through the first six rounds, Faith Peerman felt good about the words she had to spell – scrabble, macaroni, cauliflower, iguana, spherical and incorruptible. But in the seventh round, not so much.
    “I guessed,” she said with a smile.
    And she won.
    Peerman, a fifth grader at New London Academy is the 2016 Bedford County Spelling Bee champion.

    Bedford County School Board meetings normally begin with a closed-door meeting during which school board members discuss student disciplinary matters.

    Now when board members come out, they will begin hearing staff reports. According to Dr. Douglas Schuch, this allows them to use the time between the end of their executive session and the beginning of the 7 p.m. regular meeting to hear staff reports.

    A design committee, consisting of school officials and community and student representatives, met early this month and settled on two possible designs for the new middle school that will be built in the Liberty zone.