Washington D.C “Snowpocalypse” Traps Jackson City Students »

What was supposed to be a School trip to see the Nations Capital, ended up being part of one of the biggest snow storms in our nations history. Roughly 44 Jackson City School students and their chaparones were trapped in Washington this weekend, after what is being called a ’snowpocalypse’. Washington D.C. was hit with [...]

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JHS Senior Spotlight   

 This week’s JHS Senior Spotlight is focused on Briana Cundiff.
   Briana is the 17-year-old daughter of Earl and Deborah Cundiff.
   She has attended JCS for nine years.
   While at JCS, Briana has participated in Girl Scouts and HOSA.
   She has also received a “CATS” Award.
   In her spare time, Briana enjoys hanging out [...]

JCS Letters to Santa »

Santa Letter from Mrs. Grethel Jones’ JCS Preschool Class 
Dear Santa,
I would like a robot dinosaur and a Batman cave. I will leave you and your reindeer cookies and water.        Dysonn C. 
Dear Santa,
Please bring me two bunny hops. Bring Mamaw a bunny hop too. Bring Papaw a bunny hop. I’ll leave you bread with milk. I [...]

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JCS holds annual holiday bazaar with new tradition / By: Cara Gabbard   
 On Wednesday, December 2nd, Jackson City School held its annual holiday bazaar.   
   Here, booths were set up by guests both local and those that traveled.
   Each booth held artfully crafted displays for Christmas sale.
   Perfect gifts, from handmade jewelry to wood carvings to [...]

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Kindergarten Corner / By: Brooke Gross 
   This week, Mrs. Noble’s and Mrs. Hollan’s kindergarten classes prepared for the annual holiday bazaar talent show.
   All week they learned songs to sing and practiced them.
   At the talent show, they sung “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth” and “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.” 
   [...]

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Seven finalists for Gear Up Scholarship at JCS / By: Abby Caudill 
   Jackson City School has seven finalists for the Gear Up Scholarship.
   These students are: Alexandra Herald, Justin Stacy, Kathy Henson, Hope Hensley, Jacob Haddix, Ryan Lovins, and Amanda Barnett.
   The scholarship is awarded to 500 students in Kentucky.   
   Students applying must have [...]

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Martha Yount visits JCS 21st CCLC By: Meredith Yount
   The Jackson City School 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) Afterschool program was visited by Martha Yount, the Family and Consumer Science Agent at the Breathitt County Extension Office.
   During her visit, the students participated in four Thanksgiving-themed stations.
   For one station, Martha Yount read the [...]

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JHS Senior Spotlight 
  This week’s JHS Senior Spotlight is focused on Rickey Douglas Barnett.
   Rickey is the 17-year-old son of Veronica Jean and Rickey E. Barnett.
  He has attended JCS for eight years.
   While at JCS, Rickey has participated in the yearbook staff, band, NHS, and Y-Club.
   He has received numerous honors and awards including [...]

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Mr. Sewell’s U.S History class project / By: Kendra Tolson  
   On November 9th, Mr. Sewell’s class completed a history project in which they dressed up as different characters in history that they’ve been studying.   For this project they had to pick one person that they’d been studying and research information, such as where they were [...]

Lucy Spicer retires from JCS »

Lucy Spicer retires from JCS / By: Meredith Yount   
 A retirement party was held at JCS last week for Lucy Spicer who just retired after almost 14 years of work at Jackson City School.    Everyone at JCS knew her as “Ms. Lucy.”    Ms. Lucy worked at Jackson from September 1st, 1995 until June 30th, 2009, [...]