Jayden Kennett

3 weeks ago | dailyjournal.net | Jayden Kennett

Clark-Pleasant Middle School’s band director celebrated personal and student wins at a band concert last month. At the school’s spring band concert on May 20, Band Director Katy Briel was awarded the National Federation of State High School Associations’ Indiana Outstanding Music Educator of the Year. Students and staff also celebrated the middle school band earning the Indiana State School Music Association’s All Music Award for the 15th year in a row.

4 weeks ago | dailyjournal.net | Jayden Kennett

Center Grove High School’s valedictorian and salutatorian made the top honors a competition between friends this year. Valedictorian Quinn Smith and salutatorian Alexander Fan, along with their other friends, would often spend Friday nights hanging out at Smith’s house. Watching TV in Smith’s basement was a highlight to the year, Fan said, and helped make the challenging times much easier, he said.

1 month ago | dailyjournal.net | Jayden Kennett

The town of Bargersville took the first steps in the process to establish electoral districts at Tuesday’s town council meeting. The council established guidelines for the redistricting process and appointed council member Ruth Ann Moore as their redistricting coordinator. Generally, a town is only able to redistrict the year after a decennial census, which was in 2020, said Ted Nolting, partner with Kroger Gardis & Regas, LLP, who is guiding the town through the redistricting process.

1 month ago | dailyjournal.net | Jayden Kennett

Johnson County is well represented among this year’s Indy 500 Festival Princesses. Adelle Burkhardt, a junior at the University of Notre Dame majoring in aerospace engineering; Madison Ramsey, a senior at Grace College majoring in counseling, and Megan Tennell, a first-year law student at Indiana University Indianapolis Robert H. McKinney School of Law, are the three women from Johnson County who are princesses this year.

2 months ago | dailyjournal.net | Jayden Kennett

An Indiana State Board of Accounts investigation found that former Center Grove superintendent Rich Arkanoff misused at least $13,160 of public funds. But district officials say that number is significantly higher, totaling more than $71,000 in time off, family meals, greens fees and pursuing private business ventures. Center Grove is pursuing repayment of $21,782 directly from Arkanoff while the SBOA is seeking to recover $2,136, according to a report filed Tuesday but publicly announced Friday.