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Ogden junior highs to revamp honors programs

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 8:19pm

OGDEN — The three junior high schools in the Ogden School District are all on the same page — not just with each other, but with the high schools they feed into.

District officials have been meeting with the principals of all three junior high schools and their corresponding high schools since the fall to revamp the honors program and make sure the junior highs are properly preparing students for the high school programs.

Superintendent Brad Smith said the junior highs have all had honors programs of some sort for several years, but they haven’t been aligned with anything.

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Author Brandon Mull speaks to students at Mound Fort Junior High School in Ogden on Thursday. Mull, of Highland, is the author of the "Fablehaven" series of fantasy books.(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

'Fablehaven' authors taps into Ogden students' creativity

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 8:53pm

OGDEN — It felt a little like “The Price is Right” at Mound Fort Junior High School on Thursday morning, as best-selling young-adult author Brandon Mull took answers from the audience on creative ways a character could travel to another world.

Three students lined up in the front of the auditorium as he showed examples of how to create a story. Students took suggestions from their peers amid laughter and giggles at some of the ideas.

“A shower!” one student yelled.

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Ogden School District plans 3 public events

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 11:47pm

OGDEN -- The Ogden School District is inviting the community to three public events this week.

Everyone is invited to meet and greet new Superintendent Brad Smith and Peggy Dooling-Baker, the new principal at Mound Fort Junior High School, today at 6:30 p.m. at the school, 1396 Liberty Ave.

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New district superintendent shakes up staff at Ogden schools

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 12, 2011 - 11:28pm

OGDEN -- Moving vans pulled up to Ogden schools to cart away office contents of top administrators who had introduced themselves to students just weeks earlier at start-of-school assemblies.

New Ogden School District Superintendent Brad C. Smith on Monday sent out a memo outlining the immediate reassignment of three principals, three assistant principals, a coordinator and an instructional coach.

The changes involve all of the district's mainstream high schools and all of its junior high schools, as well as one undisclosed elementary school.

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AYP report failures for Ogden schools

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 11:37pm

A previous posting of Ogden School District schools failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress, based on a Utah State Board of Education report, mistakenly included schools that were granted AYP waivers because they made significant progress from the previous year.

The list that follows is updated.

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) Inglewood performs with Royce (not pictured) as the rap duo performs songs from their “Red Sky” CD during an anti-gang assembly at Mound Fort Junior High School in Ogden on Thursday. The album was produced by the Ogden Police Department and the local American Dream Foundation because officials believe music is a great way to get positive messages to teens.

Ogden junior high students down with anti-gang rap

Jessica Miller Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 7:01am

OGDEN -- When Mound Fort Junior High School students Ty Ray, Jalene Prieto and Crystal Lopez heard the Ogden Police Department was presenting a rap concert for an assembly at their school, they admit they were less than thrilled.

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Mound Fort Junior High honor roll

Community News

Last updated Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 1:49pm

7th grade

4.0 Highest honor: Bronte` Blanchard, Elizabeth Broadbent, Hailey Christensen, David Gastelum, Maria Gomez, Destiny Mathis-Higley, Lillian McCrady, Joshua Nielsen, Beth Quetschke, Dulce Sanchez- Castillo, Savannah Taeger, Layla Tanner, Cindy Trieu

High honor: Cassandra Adams, Kylie Anderson, Lorenzo Avendano-Quintero, Eric Briley, Kelsie Brown, Jordi Castro, Salvador Ceja-Monroy, Sydney Cheshire, Jaime Contreras Godinez, Alyssa Coria Hernandez, Valerie Fowers, Karina Frutos, Antoinette Gallegos, Jorge Galvan, Maricela Garcia Razo, Matthew Garcia, Dhayrit Garcilazo, Ashton Garrett, Austin Godinez, Britney Gonzalez, Joseph Gutierrez, Sandy Hernandez, Rebecca Irwin, Mary Krueger, Dayna Lopez, Maura Madrigal, Zackery Marquart, Aisha Martinez, Ramon Miranda, Jocelyne Moreno, Ashley Murga, Misty Nickerson, Jetsabeth Perez-Valle, Baylee Prado, Samantha Quinton, Rosa Rodriguez Andrade, Kassidy Ropelato, ALexas Ruse, Guadalupe Santillan Lara, Devin Santos, Samantha Singerhoff, Sean Smith, Mireya Sustaita, Darla Tibbetts, Brianna Wibert

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Wanda H. Reno, Ogden

Obituaries

Last updated Monday, January 3, 2011 - 11:17pm

Wanda H. Reno has died. Graveside services will be held at the Roy City Cemetery, 2300 W. 5300 South, at 11 a.m. Friday, January 7, 2011. Friends may call at Myers Ogden Mortuary, 845 Washington Blvd., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 6, and from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Friday. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.myers-mortuary.com

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