In an announcement on social media, Pike County Schools will be closed on Friday due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
All K-12 public schools are back in session. But they’re using alternative methods after state leaders stopped all in-person learning due to COVID-19. School systems have adopted plans to finish this current academic school year using online courses, packets, and other means of instruction. Pike County Schools Superintendent Dr. Mark Bazzell says the school system has been ahead of the…
A new school year also brings an increase in traffic. Pike County officials are warning drivers to obey all traffic laws. “Let’s really get this year started on the right foot,” Lieutenant Bryan Weed of the Troy Police Department says. Ready or not, schools are back in session. That means more early morning and afternoon traffic on the roadways. The…
Pike County Schools received a generous donation Wednesday. 100 Stop the Bleed emergency kits, used to help reduce blood loss in traumatic situations, are being distributed throughout the school system. “You know, in the event that we had something, and this is the kind of thing that we hope to never have to use, we want to make sure that…
A school shooting could happen anywhere. Pike County schools are doing their best to ensure that does not happen in any of their five schools. “The way the world is today, you can never say that you’re never gonna have an incident at the schools,” Pike County Superintendent Dr. Mark Bazzell says. “The addition of school resource officers, you know,…
