Andy Burr was elected president of the Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca Board of Education Tuesday morning, Jan. 12, at the annual board reorganizational meeting.
    Burr was elected by ballot 4-2 over Dean Neels. Neels was elected board vice president without opposition. The annual reorganizational meeting was postponed from Thursday, Jan. 7, because of snow.

The S-D-A Board of Education will hold their annual meeting Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 7 a.m. in the Elementary School Conference Room.

School District #27 will hold a special public hearing on the future of the Unadilla Elementary building on Jan. 4 at 6 p.m. in the Syracuse Elementary auditorium. 

   Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca High School students were challenged Wednesday morning, Nov. 11, to prove themselves worthy.
    Speaking at the Veterans Day program at the high school gymnasium, Maj. Thomas Golden, Lincoln, challenged the students to be good citizens in their classrooms, school and community. Golden said that if the students really wanted to honor veterans for their service to the United States and to validate their sacrifices, the students should take their gratitude and put it into action.

The S-D-A Board of Education will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16 in the Elementary School Lunchroom.  The agenda includes a building project progress report and an FFA presentation.  The board will also discuss changing the time of the December meeting and have a first reading of an academic content standards policy.

   The Better BaC’s 4-H Club won the Otoe County 4-H Community Pride Award for the ninth consecutive year.
    The award was presented Sunday, Nov. 1, at the annual 4-H Achievement Celebration at the Kimmel Event Center, Syracuse.

    As area farmers get into the full swing of the fall harvest, first through fourth graders from around Otoe County learned valuable and timely lessons about farm safety last week.
    The S-D-A and Nebraska City Lourdes FFA chapters hosted the 14th annual Progressive Agriculture Farm Safety Day Friday, Oct. 2, at the Kimmel Event Center in Syracuse.

    Medieval Disco is the theme for Homecoming at Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca High School.
    Dress up themes for this week were and are: Monday, Camouflage; Tuesday, Neon Day; Wednesday, Barbie and Ken Day; Thursday,  Dress Your Best Day; and Friday, Spirit Day! Green and White.

  Closing Education Drive near Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca High School through Thursday, Aug. 13, was approved by the City Council Monday, July 6.

  Several items pertaining to the middle school project were discussed last week by the Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca Board of Education.

Brady Rohlfs, 1992 Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca High School graduate, received the Freda Battey Distinguished Educator Award.
    Rohlfs is a former S-D-A Public Schools music teacher. He currently is band director at Waverly High School.
    The award is given to one “exemplary Nebraska secondary school teacher” each year by officials of the College of Education and Human Sciences (EHS) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).

  Rachel Watermeier and Emily Zahn were co-valedictorians of the Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca High School Class of 2009 which graduated Saturday, May 9.  Both achieved four-point grade point averages.

Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca is one of a number of schools throughout the state to receive economic stimulus funds.