By ROBERT MERRILL Assistant editor DAYTON – West Side High School will graduate 45 seniors in one week during 7 p.m. commencement exercises on May 22 at the high school gymnasium in Dayton. The theme for this year’s graduation is, “Make Our Mark.” West Side High School has named a valedictorian and a salutatorian....
By RODNEY D. BOAM Citizen editor The 2013 Preston High School Graduation will be held May 23 at 8 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. The program will begin with the processional, “Olympic Fanfare and Theme,” performed by the PHS band conducted by Wayne Manning. Then senior members of the a capella choir, band...
By LORI HEUSSER Preston School District Seven long time Preston School District employees have announced their retirement at the end of this school year. • Wynn Costley has been employed with our district for 28 years. He also taught four years in Utah prior to coming to Idaho. He has been an administrator the...
Smithfield man to lead students next fall By RODNEY D. BOAM Citizen editor Curtis Jenson, English Department chair at Logan High School, has accepted an offer to be the principal at Preston Junior High School. Jenson is a Cache Valley native, who grew up on a farm Amalga. He graduated from Sky View...
By ROBERT S. MERRILL Assistant editor This spring the West Side football coaches and players are putting on a three-day camp for all incoming second-eighth graders. Head coach Tyson Moser said the camp will begin on Tuesday, May 28, and end the following Thursday. “We will begin at 9 a.m. and finish by 11...
By TERESA CHIPMAN PHS sports writer The Indian softball team played Pocatello at home in a double header on Tuesday, April 30 and lost both, 8-0 and 15-5. “The game of if’s, coulda’s, shoulda’s and woulda’s is sometimes the mentality behind playing softball, not only for players, but for the most part of coaching,”...
By ROBERT S. MERRILL Assistant editor DAYTON – A Logan student won the second-annual Dahle Piano Competition on Saturday and took home a $1,000 prize for his efforts. The second-place winner was from West Side. Hayden Hubbard, from Logan High School, was first. Zachery Talbot, from West Side, was second and Josh Smedley, Marsh...
By ROBERT S. MERRILL Assistant editor DAYTON – West Side School District officials have hired three individuals as new teachers for the coming school year during a recent trustee meeting. Emily Transtrum was hired as a second-grade elementary teacher. LaWrell Cook was employed as a mathematics/ physical education teacher in the middle school and...
By ROBERT S. MERRILL Assistant editor There will be a trustee election in the West Side School District on May 21, but no election in the Preston School District. The West Side election will pit incumbent Stacey Olsen against patron Daniel Garner in Zone 4 (the Dayton area). The term of office is four...
By TERESA CHIPMAN PHS sports writer Preston played its last baseball game of the year on Saturday and dropped a loser-out game to Pocatello 8-3. The Indians played in the district tournament in Pocatello. The game started off well for Preston with Jason Wade on the mound. In the third inning Preston led 3-2...
