Photos from Burress 7: School Picture

Exeter Gets Some Snow from Storm Q

Exeterites saw between 6 - 8 inches in the Weather Channel named Storm Q.  While totals predicted were up to 14-16 inches a dry atmosphere depleted the moisture in the storm disappointing many from area farmers to school children.  Exeter-Milligan students enjoyed a snow day on Thursday and a late start on Friday.  More snow is predicted for the area on Sunday and Monday.

Exeter-Milligan Update: Elementary Reading

The Fantastic Frogs continue to "hop" their way through the Reading Mastery Program!  One of their favorite activities is to read words on the ipods.  Each time a story is read, Mrs. Kara Myers charts the words they had difficulties with.  These words are then put on a flashcard app on each individual ipod for each "frog" to read.  "Frogs" pictured are (left to right) Josh Meyer, Tyler Due, and Trenton Vossler.

Photos from Burress 6: A Look Back

Congrats to Exeter-Milligan Music Students

Congratulations go to the following Exeter-Milligan Music Students:

Meridian Junior High Honor Choir - Katie Moody, Katie Skinner, Ashley Benorden, Lucy Murphy
Meridian Junior High Honor Band - Ella Wilkins, Alexis Uldrich, Tara Mueller, Trystan Brandt,
Samantha Horne, Haylee Sheffield
Class D All-State Wind Ensemble - Jordyn Brandt, Jennifer Pribyl, Madison Horne, Maitlyn Thomsen
Class D All-State Symphonic Band - Taylor Erdkamp, Devin Sheffield, Alex Benorden, Broc Mueller,
Meredith Emshoff, Janey Due
CRC Honor Band - Jordyn Brandt, Taylor Erdkamp, Jennifer Pribyl, Erica Yound, Madison Horne,
Amber Pribyl, Maitlyn Thomsen, Meredith Emshoff, Devin Sheffield
Upcoming Music

Photos from Burress 5: Grain Piles in 1958

Exeter-Milligan Update:

Pictured left to right: Meredith Emshoff, Deidre Stevens, and Jennifer Pribyl at the Meridian Speech Invite

The Exeter-Milligan Speech team is off to a good start this season. We competed at the MUDECAS conference meet in January and the Meridian Speech invite on Feb. 9, 2013. At the Meridian meet Meredith Emshoff received 2nd in Serious Prose and 4th in Poetry. Jennifer Pribyl competed in Informative Speaking and received 3rd place. Deidre Stevens and Emshoff also competed in Humorous Prose. Also on the team are Liz Murphy, competing in Informative speaking and Serious Prose, and Amber Pribyl competing in Humorous Prose. Upcoming meets for the Timberwolves are Sutton Speech Invite, Feb. 16th and Crossroads Conference Meet Feb. 20th. On March 4th at 6:30 pm the speech team will have their Speech Night combined with the FCCLA Evening with the STARs in the Exeter building small gym; there will be a light reception at the event. The Speech team is sponsored by Rachel Haider.

Exeter and Exeter-Milligan Alumni Directory

Attention Exeter Alumni and Exeter-Milligan Alumni

The Exeter Alumni Association is in the process of updating our Directory.  A new directory will be printed this Spring and will be sold at the 2013 Alumni Banquet.  Directories are printed every 5 years.

If you or you know of graduates who have moved or changed their name in the last 5 years, please submit updates to Kay Due.  Each class will be contacted as well.  You can email information to Kay Due or call or text to 402-641-3512. You may also find Kay on facebook under Kay Ruhl Due. 

Post Office Meeting at Survey

All Postal Customers in the Exeter area should have received a letter about the POST plan.  The letter includes a survey that all customers should fill out and return in the postage paid envelope.  If you want to continue to have a post office in Exeter you should return the survey and mark #1.  This needs to be returned by March 4.

The post office has announced that they will hold a meeting at the Exeter Fire Hall on March 18th at 4:30 p.m. to answer any questions and provide additional information about the POST plan.  At the time of the meeting they will be sharing the results of the survey.  IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE RETURN THEIR SURVEY!!!

The options for Exeter are either to reduce hours at the post office or to close the post office and to have a postal retail unit.

Exeter-Milligan Update: Mrs. Pollak's 6th Grade Science

Mrs. Julia Polak's 6th grade science class  at Milligan studied forces and motion.  The teach constructedf "skiers" out of ice cream sticks and pipe cleaners.  then they tried different substances that they thought would reduce friction between the skier and the plexiglass "slope."  This particular example used body powder as a lubricant.

Katherine White, Mitchell Manning, Blake Steuben, and Trever Zelenka build the "attic" of their newspaper-rod structure during the STEM activity.  They are Mrs. Julia Polak's sixth graders at the Milligan campus of the Exeter-Milligan Schools.

Exeter-Milligan 6th graders participated in some STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) activities.  In this one they had to roll newpapers in to long narrow "rods," and build a structure that the whole team could stand up in.  Here, Macy Due and James Becker hold on to their structure until the rest of the team can put in the supports.