Stories to watch for this weekend

Coming this weekend are a couple stories I’ve been working on from the education beat.

First, there’s a story about the retirement of Tom Purcell, the principal at Apollo High School for the last eight years and a teacher for more years than I’ve actually been on this Earth. Not only does he have an impressive work record, but he’s a pretty popular guy, which I think comes across pretty well in the story from the comments of Daviess County Public Schools Superintendent Tom Shelton.

Second, there’s a story about the new Wesleyan Fellows Program. The program, technically not new any more since it just finished its first year, is a work-study program that nine students took on. They researched, they worked, some for an entire calendar year, and then they presented in public their projects. Some pretty fascinating stuff there, if I might say so, though I couldn’t go into too much detail in the news article for the sake of space. Between the microbiology project and the history project that I learned about from the two students I interviewed, I had enough to geek out about for the better part of the day.

Anyway, watch for those stories and more. And eat some barbecue too!