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4 days ago
- Health
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Carthage School District announces inaugural Distinguished Tiger Alumni Award recipients
CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Carthage School District and the Distinguished Tiger Alumni Award Board recently announced inaugural recipients of the Distinguished Tiger Alumni Award — Brandon Weaver and Dr. Grant Williams. They will be honored Friday, Oct. 17, during the Carthage High School football game. The award was established in honor of the late Carthage schoolteacher Caroline Tubbs and recognizes Carthage High School graduates who have made outstanding contributions in their fields and communities. • Brandon Weaver, class of 2009, serves as a senior software engineer at Amazon One Medical. His career has included roles at Square, Gusto, Sony PlayStation and Cerner. Brandon is also a featured speaker in the Ruby programming community, presenting worldwide from Japan to Brazil. He also is an advocate for autism awareness and a supporter of education and athletics, including funding for classroom wish lists, the cross country program, providing a specialized wheelchair for a student-athlete, and covering a full year of college tuition for a student in need. As a Carthage High School student, Weaver was involved in cross-country, track and field, SkillsUSA, jazz, concert and marching bands. • Grant Williams, class of 2001, is an oncologist specializing in geriatric care. He is certified in internal medicine, oncology and geriatric medicine. Williams currently serves as a professor and clinical researcher at the University of Alabama Birmingham, and has authored over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications. His numerous honors include the Exceptional Care Provider Award, Teaching Excellence Award and Patient Excellence Award. While at Carthage High School, Williams was active in tennis, jazz band, show choir, the math team, Spanish club, basketball and student council.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
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Miami teacher charged with DWI
MIAMI, Okla. – A Miami High School English instructor accused of being intoxicated and driving her vehicle through a busy Joplin intersection is facing a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated. Elaine M. Wurst, 56, of Joplin, is charged in Jasper County Circuit Court. Wurst was stopped around 11 p.m. on Saturday on Dermont Drive and Tabor Main Road in Joplin for what police say were multiple lane violations, according to a probable cause affidavit. Court records say Wurst failed three field sobriety tests and her blood alcohol level measured 0.167. The legal limit in Missouri 0.08. She is free on $2,000 bond and scheduled to appear in court on April 28, online court records show. Wurst's social media pages show she has been an English Teacher at Miami School District since July 9, 2019, and was a Media Specialist with Carthage School District from 2012 to 2017. Miami School officials said the incident happened when Wurst was not on school grounds and they couldn't comment since it's a personnel matter. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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22-03-2025
- Business
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Carthage School District to host public forum Monday
CARTHAGE, Mo. — The Carthage School District will hold a public forum at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 24, at the Carthage R-9 auditorium to provide information and answer questions about the two school tax issues on the April 8 ballot. Carthage voters will be asked to approve two separate property tax issues: • The district is asking voters to increase the operating levy from $3.05 per $100 of assessed valuation to $3.60 to help the district pay rising prices on utilities, costs to run school buses, costs for paper and office supplies, and to give raises to teachers. This measure needs a simple majority to pass. If it does not pass, the district's operating levy will fall to $2.75 per $100 of assessed valuation next year when a 10-year operating levy increase to build David Haffner Stadium expires. In 2015, voters approved a 40-cent levy increase, but that levy has been dropping since then because of the state's Hancock Amendment limits on the property tax revenue the district can collect Carthage Superintendent Luke Boyer has said costs to run the school district have increased due to inflation, but revenue from the state and local sources has not kept up. He said the district is anticipating a $1.8 million deficit in its current annual budget. The district has healthy reserves to cover that deficit, but those reserves won't last much longer. The state provides a little less than half the district's revenue, but state appropriations to schools have remained static at around $26 million since 2018. Boyer said the district is having trouble recruiting and retaining teachers because the district's minimum teacher salary, at $41,000 a year, is lower than others in Jasper County and the Central Ozark Conference. The operating levy increase would help address that. • The district is also asking voters to extend the district's 83-cent debt service levy for a maximum of five years to raise $25 million in bonds to build a new auditorium with classrooms and a tornado shelter at Carthage High School. This measure needs a four-sevenths, or 57.1% majority to pass. The Carthage Board of Education has said the operating levy increase is the priority and if it doesn't pass and the bond issue does, the district won't be able to build the auditorium because of increased expenses after its completion. Boyer and other school officials will be on hand at the forum to answer questions about the two ballot measures. Information sheets with more reasons the district says it needs both issues can be found on the district's website or on the district's Facebook page.
