CLARE SENTINEL CORRECTS ERRORS IN JUNE 22 STORY
    HARRISON – A June 22 newspaper article about the Monday, June 14, Harrison Community Schools Board of Education meeting contained some misinformation and errors of fact, which Superintendent Tom House has clarified and The Clare Sentinel is correcting here.
     The school board did approve 12 retirements effective this summer, [...]

     HARRISON – The Harrison Board of Education has approved downsizing the ROTC program and laying off up to 10 teachers funded by the general fund and perhaps another four funded by Title 1, among other areas.
     “The number could change based on the number of retirements we get,” said Superintendent Tom House Thursday.
     Calculating [...]

By LOREN SCHREIBER
     HARRISON - The Harrison track and field team recently competed in regional competition hoping to qualify for a spot in the Division 3 state championship meet today, Saturday, June 5, at Comstock park in Grand Rapids.
     In the men’s individual competition Clinton Cargill qualified for the state finals in the 200 meter dash, [...]

Meeting took place May 24 place on possible cuts (details in June 1 Clare Sentinel print edition)
     HARRISON – Harrison Community Schools Board of Education members continued discussions at a meeting Monday on how to deal with a $1.5 million deficit in the school budget for the 2010-2011 school year after conversations on the issue started at [...]

 
Rep. Tim Moore, R-Farwell, decided not to vote on school retirement incentive package, due to a potential conflict of interest associated with him becoming an elementary principal
     CLARE – Clare Superintendent Greg McMillan didn’t want to predict how many teachers and school employees would be coaxed into retirement by a retirement incentive package the Michigan Legislature approved [...]

Meeting to take place on possible cuts
     HARRISON – Harrison Board of Education members continued discussions at a meeting Monday on how to deal with a $1.5 million deficit in the school budget for the 2010-2011 school year after conversations on the issue started at a meeting earlier this month.
     The Harrison Board of Education [...]

HARRISON – The graduation ceremony at Harrison High school was filled with anticipation and excitement.
The 93 students in the Harrison High School class of 2009 were dressed in the school colors of blue and gold and were full of energy as they were preparing to move on to the  next phase of their lives, but [...]

By Erin Cole
HARRISON – Discussions about the need to cut $1 million from the district’s budget occupied the full the attention of the Harrison Community Schools Board of Education at its regular meeting, Monday, May 10.
“We can’t just keep going and going and going,” said Harrison School Board member/treasurer N. Marie Roth.
Originally 11 teachers were [...]

HARRISON – School and activities have resumed to a normal level even as Harrison Area Schools staff learned a student in the district had a confirmed case of the swine flu or H1N1 virus.
Superintendent Thomas House said the district is now going about everything as planned. “We have resumed our normal activity levels,” House said [...]

HARRISON – The staff and students at Harrison schools will miss seeing CCSD Deputy Lucy Bohr’s face around their hallways next year after she has been there for more than 10 years.
Bohr has served as the Clare County Sheriff’s Department liaison officer in the schools for the past 10 years.
“She has done an awesome job,” [...]