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Vol. 32, No. 24
June 14, 2017
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Bell to toll again at Central School in Riverside Historic bell last rang almost a decade ago By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
Pretty soon the bell high up in the Central School bell tower will ring again. On May 17, the Riverside Elementary School District 96 Board of Education voted unanimously to authorize spending $4,495 this summer to get the bell in the Central School bell tower ringing again. Members of the Central School Parent Teacher Organization have been pushing to get the bell ringing again and restore what was once a Central School tradition. A hatch will have to be built in the bell tower and the rope that is used to ring the bell needs to be replaced. Central School and its bell tower were built in 1897, See BELL on page 10
WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer
Stanley Tokarz casts his line into the Des Plaines River from the bank in Swan Pond Park in Riverside during the Recreation Department’s first-ever kids’ fishing derby on June 11. About 40 kids and their parents showed up to fish on a day where temperatures reached into the 90s. For more photos from the event, visit online at www.RBLandmark.com.
D103 principals get new deals, but other positions nixed By BOB UPHUES Editor
A week after voting to rescind a host of administrators’ contracts, the Lyons-Brookfield
Votes on maintenance, tech directors tabled until June 26 Elementary School District 103 Board of Education acted on June 6 to approve many of those deals, including contracts for five school principals and two assistant principals. The board also voted to approve new one-
year contracts for the school district’s curriculum director, special education director and preschool director, and hired a new student case manager/coordinator to help handle the district’s heavy load of social/emotional cases.
A couple of the decisions, including votes on new contracts for Curriculum Director Natacia Campbell and Costello School Principal See D103 on page 10
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