SYRACUSE - Whitko's fast-improving boys basketball team traveled to Syracuse Saturday night to battle the high-powered offense of the Wawasee Warriors.
Editor's Note: Times-Union staff writer David Slone was invited to travel with Dave Hoffert's WCHS history class to attend Barack Obama's inauguration. He will be filing daily reports.WASHINGTON, D.C. - Instead of learning about history in class, 30 Warsaw Community High School students left Sunday to take part in it.The students and their chaperones left about 7 p.m. for Washington, D.C. The students return to Warsaw Wednesday morning. While in D.C., the agenda for the students includes touring museums and war memorials and attending President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony Tuesday.Dave Hoffert, WCHS history teacher and trip organizer, said that when it was decided last year that WCHS would have the Step 1 U.S. history class, teachers started brainstorming different ideas for the class. Hoffert said he likes the idea of students being able to feel, see and hold what they're learning in their hands.
SYRACUSE - Averaging over 90 points a game while looking for their first win of the young season, Wawasee High School's varsity boys basketball team played host to West Noble Saturday night.
After a thoroughly enjoyable holiday season, the Goldmine Pickers are kicking the New Year off with some travel dates and some surprise guest appearances at their shows.
The 2008 Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress-Plus results, released recently by Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Suellen Reed, showed overall pass rates declined slightly compared to last year.
N. MANCHESTER - Despite the winter storm warnings, North Miami's girls basketball weathered the travel to North Manchester for a Three Rivers Conference matchup Saturday night.
It took Warsaw's varsity girls basketball team three-and-a-half quarters to build in a nine-point lead, but it took four minutes for the Wawasee Warriors to turn that lead into a seven-point deficit.