The Highlands Band Association will be participating in a Quarter Auction to raise funds for the entire high school band program, at the Newport Elks Lodge in Cold Spring, on Tuesday, September 16th at 6 p.m.
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HHS Ranks Nationally Once Again
Highlands High School has been ranked in another national list of America’s top performing high schools, this time by Newsweek. What’s more, though? HHS was one of only two Kentucky high schools that made the list, ranking 196th out of 500 schools.
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HHS Ranked Among Nation’s Top High Schools
Highlands High School was named one of the country’s top high schools in a recent report by The Daily Beast, “America’s Top High Schools for 2014.” HHS ranked 243rd out of over 700 top public high schools.
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HHS Selects New Head Soccer Coach for Ladybirds
Highlands High School has selected Brian Wiefering as the new girls’ head soccer coach. Wiefering has been the HHS girls’ freshman soccer coach for the past three years. Wiefering has a long and impressive history with soccer beginning as a player at the age of five. In addition to club soccer, he played on the […]
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Highlands names new head volleyball coach
Highlands High School has selected Katelyn Sallee as the new Head Volleyball Coach. Sallee is currently a mathematics teacher at HHS. Sallee has a strong foundation in volleyball as a five-year starter at Simon Kenton High School where she won recognition as a District MVP, received All-State awards, National All-Tournament team awards, a National title […]
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Bomb Threat Suspect Awaits Grand Jury as Highlands Discusses Emergency Protocols
Tyler Swope’s attorney, Phillip Taliaferro. Source: http://www.tmsck.com/Attorneys/Philip-Taliaferro-Iii.shtml The arraignment hearing for Tyler Swope, the former Highlands graduate and prom king accused of calling in a bomb threat that sent shockwaves through Fort Thomas on January 15, was to take place yesterday at Campbell County District Court in front of Judge Gregory T. Popovich. Swope and his […]
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No Blue Ribbon for Fort Thomas Schools This Year… Because They’ve Earned (Almost) All They Can Already
Last Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced the 2013 cohort of National Blue Ribbon Award winners. In Northern Kentucky, only two schools received the award this year: Mann Elementary of the Boone County School District and Beechwood HS of Beechwood Independent. Fort Thomas Independent was absent from this year’s award-winners, but that might be because all but […]
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A Teacher’s Point of View: Guest Post
By Lelia Shipp Wendel One of the unique traits of the digital medium Fort Thomas Matters employs to bring you your local news is that it allows us to interact with our readers and for our readers to share their insights into the Fort Thomas community, either through comments or, occasionally, with a guest post […]
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Monday Evening Fort Thomas Notes
1. The Villa Grande subdivision is petitioning to be added to the Fort Thomas school system. The development is in city limits but as a result of an evolution over time it along with a spot East of Dayton, KY are still assigned to the Campbell County School District even though the rest of the […]
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Andrea Conners Sentenced to Jail Time
Former Highlands High School teacher, Andrea Conners, was back in front of Campbell County Circuit Court Judge Fred Stine today. Conners was sentenced to serve 90 days in the Campbell County jail and five years probation for engaging in a sexual relationship with an underage male student. She is likely to lose her teaching certificate, and […]