A student at Johnson Elementary recently made his mark on the state geography bee. He was the only elementary student in the state to place in the top ten of the competition. Case Grillot, a fourth grader at Johnson Elementary, came in 8th place in the state geography bee, which was held at Western Kentucky […]
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BREAKING: Assistant Superintendent, Rita Byrd, to Retire; Replacement to be Announced
Rita Byrd. Photo credit: http://www.fortthomas.kyschools.us/olc/teacher.aspx?s=80 Fort Thomas Independent Schools Assistant Superintendent Rita Byrd, is retiring effective July 1, of this year, a source has told FortThomasMatters.com.
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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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FTEF Awards Grants
This year all 5 schools in the Fort Thomas Independent School District will have over $56,000 in additional funds to purchase new technology and supplies due to the Fort Thomas Foundation Foundation’s teacher grant program. This amount represents the most monies awarded by the Foundation in its history. Since 2001, the Foundation has awarded over […]
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Upcoming Events in Fort Thomas
Here is a sampling of events coming up over the next month or so in and around Fort Thomas: September 23 – Family Night at the Y – On Friday, September 23rd the YMCA will be offering a family friendly movie event. The YMCA will be showing the movie Hoodwinked Too for all of our members on a projector […]
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Neighborhoods in Fort Thomas
I don’t view Fort Thomas as having distinct neighborhoods but rather identifying as Fort Thomas residents in the broader sense. It is not as if Fort Thomas is a new outer ring neighborhood with new track home neighborhoods with stone walls at the entrance indicating the name of the community. Some common divisions do occur […]