Schools

Area schools celebrated 100 days of school with fun activities for their elementary students.

The South Nodaway Courtwarming Queen is Blair Allen, and the king is Lane Acklin. Allen is the daughter of Necama Parman and Josh Allen, and Acklin is the son of Paul and Melanie Henggeler. The Jefferson Courtwarming Queen is Maggie Collins, who is the daughter of Dan and Mary Collins. The king is Alex Mattson,

The annual Nodaway County Government Day was February 8. Nodaway County officeholders explained the workings of county government to groups of eighth graders. Nodaway County Assessor Rex Wallace explains the flow of work between the county offices to four of the nine eighth graders from Jefferson C-123. They are Bella Day, Chloe Peery, Kirsten Miller

The vocal music department of Maryville High School will present the annual Sweet Sounds of Spectrum concert and fundraiser this weekend, February 16 and 18 at the Schneider Center for the Performing Arts. The concert is traditionally held during the early spring to showcase the school’s two show choirs, Spectrum and Illumination, while also providing

On February 6, seven county schools sent their spelling bee finalists to the county competition at St. Gregory Barbarigo School. After six rounds, Marleigh Weichinger, St. Gregory’s fifth grader, spelled “seclusion” to take first place. Eliana Wall, Maryville Middle School eighth grader, took second place after being stumped by “adhesion.” First runner-up was Gage Stephenson,

At a December 6 Jefferson C-123 Board of Education meeting, current K-12 PE Teacher Dallas Giedd was accepted as the new superintendent starting in the 2024/25 school year. Current Superintendent Tim Jermain will be retiring at the end of this school year. Giedd graduated from South Dakota State University with a degree in math education,

  By Morgan Guyer The Maryville Spoofhound Boys Soccer Team captured a third place title at the Class 1 State Tournament in Fenton on November 17-18 after defeating Laquey 5-0. Two years ago, Maryville ended the season in a similar scenario. That team defeated Fair Grove 5-0 to finish in third place. This year’s senior

Once a month, Spoofy Beans, a Maryville High School group, has been serving coffee and snacks to the workers of Nucor-LMP, Inc. A year ago the company donated money for a classroom TV, table and chairs. Nucor wanted to help the students in other ways, so looked into the purchase of a mobile Spoofy Bean

Nodaway County eighth graders from Maryville, Jefferson, South Nodaway, West Nodaway, Nodaway-Holt, North Nodaway and Northeast Nodaway had the opportunity to tour four of the following manufacturers and businesses: Laclede, DRIV/Tenneco, Kawasaki, Mosaic Medical Center, JL Houston/PolyTank, Metal Culverts, NUCOR-LMP and Nodaway County Services.

The Nodaway News Leader has been busy catching the county’s students hard-at-work in the classroom. See who has been caught being educated this week on Page 3 of the NNL in our print exclusive ‘Walk the Halls’ feature.