As holiday breaks approach for all of our local schools, Wharton’s band, orchestra and choir programs will get together to make music in a somewhat unexpected style that has become an annual tradition. Called “Prism,” it will feature every large performing ensemble in the school’s music department, which includes the band, orchestra and chorus. “The concert runs in a … [Read more...]
ON TARGET
Wharton High is home to two of riflery’s sharpest shooters, and both have Olympic aspirations. When Matt Sanchez signed his college athletic scholarship papers with West Virginia University on Nov. 14, it didn’t make the nightly sports news, but it was a big deal. It was as big as a high school football player signing a college scholarship to compete at Alabama … [Read more...]
Tim Light Named Cypress Creek Middle School’s First Principal
New principal Tim Light will be in charge of the state-of-the-art Cypress Creek Middle School campus when it opens on Old Pasco Rd. next August. (Photo: @CypressMiddle) Cypress Creek Middle School has its first principal, and he is a familiar face to many of the students who will help him open the school next fall. Tim Light was most recently an assistant principal at … [Read more...]
Less Contentious Debate Over New School Zones
Chris Williams wasn’t quite sure what to expect on Oct. 7 at the public workshop for Pasco County’s new school boundaries expected to go into effect for the 2020-21 school year. The director of planning services for the Pasco County School Board said that in the three weeks prior to the meeting, there had surprisingly been only 35 online inquiries about the new boundaries, … [Read more...]
Proposed Boundaries Offer Big Changes
The Seven Oaks community escaped being rezoned for different middle and high schools in 2016, but it doesn’t appear it will do so this time around. Pasco County Schools staff is recommending that the entirety of Seven Oaks be rezoned to attend the new Cypress Creek Middle School, as well Cypress Creek High School, according to new school year 2020-21 maps posted on its … [Read more...]
