West Central
West Central Elementary Principal Shawn Walsh and Middle/High School Principal Mike Carlson highlighted grants they have recently received at a regular school board meeting on Jan. 8. During his report, Principal Walsh shared the West Central Elementary PTC received a grant from the Community...
Superintendent Dr. Cathy Rowe shared on Dec. 4 that she and Middle and High School Principal Mike Carlson are currently working on developing a school reunification plan. A school reunification plan is a formal protocol for schools to follow if they ever need to return students to their parents or...
Heather Reese was approved to fill the vacant school board seat on the West Central school board during a regular meeting on Thursday, Nov. 6. The Cass Township seat was left vacant by Kyle McTeigue, who resigned from the school board as of Oct. 15. Superintendent Dr. Cathy Rowe explained that the...
Elementary principal Shawn Walsh and middle and high school principal Mike Carlson shared updates on the successful start to the year and outlined goals for the coming months during a regular school board meeting on Sept. 4. Principal Walsh said that the elementary students and teachers have...
The 2025 high school football season was back under the lights on Friday nights across Indiana. Locally, the annual battle for the Tomahawk between West Central and Winamac was the primary concern for residents of Pulaski County. After coming close to winning last season in Winamac, the Trojans of...
The West Central school board and superintendent Dr. Cathy Rowe recently welcomed Shawn Walsh as the new elementary principal for the 2025-2026 school year. Mr. Walsh is coming from Lansing School District 158 in Lansing, Illinois. He said he was there for six years and he was a Dean of Students...
Based off of the 73 responses received from a recent survey, it is clear that the West Central community has interest in getting a School Resource Officer (SRO). Superintendent Dr. Cathy Rowe advised that 91.5% said that they would feel safer and more secure if West Central had an SRO and 83.3% of...
West Central Superintendent Dr. Cathy Rowe went over some of the progress on the pool and campus renovations during a regular school board meeting on Thursday, March 6. Dr. Rowe first presented before and after photos of the football stadium bleachers which is part of the 2025 bond project....
At the end of the 2019 – 2020 school year, there were approximately 23,400 sworn school resource officers (SROs) in the United States, according to a November 2023 report published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice. In general, the number of SROs has increased...
Both county schools addressed their concerns with Senate Bill 1 during their respective school board meetings on Feb. 6 and 10. Senate Bill 1 is a property tax bill authored by Republican Senators Travis Holdman, Chris Garten and Scott Baldwin that highlights the property tax proposal brought...