Eastern Local School District

Volleyball picks up a win tonight over Meigs Go Eagles!

The school year is off and running, and it has started so well. Special thank you to our amazing students and staff for working together, our band and cheerleaders for pumping everyone up on the first day, and our football team for helping our car riders get in safe and fire up the elementary students. Our new traffic pattern has gone well, and we appreciate everyone being patient and helpful. A couple things we've noticed that might be helpful would be for all 7-12 students getting dropped off to be sure you are around the corner and pulled forward along the sidewalk as far as you can before dropping off. This will let everyone get around the corner faster and keep it safer for our kiddos. Also please be sure not to let any students out anywhere out front unless it's along the sidewalk. Lastly be sure to use the right and left entrance lanes. K-3 drop off stay to the right and everyone else to the left. We are excited for a pep rally today with volleyball home versus Meigs tonight and football at Meigs Saturday evening. Come out and support all of these kids who work so hard. Thank you so much for all your help and we hope to have an even week next week!

Volleyball starts off TVC play with a win at Waterford. Go Eagles!

Atomic Credit Union is seeking student applicants for the Student-Run Credit Union this school year at our school district to promote financial literacy, savings, and a unique experience for students to learn money managing skills. A variety of positions are available including a student branch mananger, tellers, member service representatives, book keepers, and data entry specialists. Applications for interested high school students are available in the high school office. This work will be done during the school day during lunch and breakfast times beginning September 16th. Applications must be turned in before August 28th, with interviews being conducted at school during 5th period on September 3rd. Selected applicants would receive training onsite at Eastern on September 9th from 1-2:30pm.

We are currently experiencing some technical issues with the Zonar My View Bus Ap for parents. We hope to have those resolved as soon as possible. Thank You.

Volleyball opens up TVC play tonight at Waterford. Go Eagles!

Meigs County families, with school-aged children, the monthly, drive through food distribution will take place at the Meigs Local Administrative office building (formerly Salisbury Elem.) Thursday at 41765 Pomeroy Pike in Pomeroy 4:30-until supplies run out. They will have fresh produce from the Meigs County farmers market, soup and casseroles from the 740 kitchen (Joe Burrow Foundation) Thank you

Safe Swim Applications available for students. See flyer for details

Mobile Lung Screening in Meigs County

Eastern Local will be moving toward a new centralized location of communication for classes, extracurricular activities, and other pertinent school information. This will make communication and connections with Eastern staff, coaches, and families much simpler, and smoother across all grade levels district wide. Through the Eastern Local SD App, all messages are centralized through one inbox, allowing staff and families to communicate easily through the ROOMS Platform (within the Eastern App).

If you are a parent, family member, or community member wishing to stay up to date with district and school news, please download the Eastern Local SD App through the Google Play Store, or Apple App Store (Based on Device).

If you already have downloaded this app, due to an update needed for ROOMs communication to be accessible, you may need to remove the app, and redownload it.

After opening the App, select ROOMS on the toolbar on the bottom of your device's screen. It will prompt you to sign in at this time. Please use your phone number, and follow the prompts to finalize logging in. From here, you will be able to see your student's classes, and get centralized class updates, news, and message teachers along with other school staff directly. Please see the attached Rooms Quick Start Guide attached as well for additional assistance.

The 2024-2025 Elementary Yearbooks are in! They will be passed out to your students on Monday, August 25th in their homeroom classes.

The 2024-2025 High School Yearbooks will be delivered in the next few weeks. Production took a little extra time, but they will be here soon! Anyone who ordered a high school yearbook will get a call when they come in so you can pick them up!

Thank you for supporting the Eastern Yearbook Crew!

Attorney General Yost Encourages High School Students to Apply for Teen Ambassador Board. See the attached document for details.

This is an update about morning drop-off. Between 7:30 and 7:45 all cars will enter through the southern entrance in front of the elementary. Cars dropping off K–3 should stay to the right and pull forward as far as they can in front of the elementary before letting their student out. Cars dropping off grades 7–12 should stay to the left as they pull in and drop off along the new high school sidewalk, while cars dropping off grades 4–6 should drive behind the building and use the back entrance. Please only let students out in one of these designated areas. When exiting, all cars will loop around the student parking lot. Cars heading south toward Chester should use the left lane, and cars heading north toward Tuppers Plains should use the right lane. Preschool drop off should not enter the parking lot until after 7:45. Pick-up in the afternoon will remain the same as last year. We believe this system will keep traffic moving with fewer delays. Thank you for your patience as we try this new system to try to make mornings safer and quicker. If you have any questions please reach out to us.
Nick Dettwiller
Superintendent
Eastern Local

Athletics Schedule for the week of 8/17-23

Eastern High School has partnered with Washington State beginning this school year to provide interested students grades 10-12 with weekly career technical learning experiences on Fridays leading to credentials ranging from machining, welding, robotics, IT, and many more. Transportation will be provided by Eastern Local and will not inferfere with extracurriculars, as students will be back on campus by 2:30. If your child is interested, please scan the QR code on the attached flyer, complete both the application to the In-Cert program, the application for Washington State, and contact Sara Will and Katie Williams prior to Open House, Tuesday, August 19th.

Eastern High School has partnered with Washington State beginning this school year to provide interested students grades 10-12 with weekly career technical learning experiences on Fridays leading to credentials ranging from machining, welding, robotics, IT, and many more. Transportation will be provided by Eastern Local and will not inferfere with extracurriculars, as students will be back on campus by 2:30. If your child is interested, please scan the GQ code on the attached flyer, complete both the application to the in-cert program, the application for Washington State, and contact Sara Will and Katie Williams prior to Open House, Tuesday, August 19th.

As we gear up for school next week we wanted to make sure everyone knew we are able to offer free breakfast and lunch for all students at Eastern Local again this year. We lost a huge portion of the funding for this program because of some changes in the state budget, but we are excited to say we will still be able to offer free breakfast and lunch to all our students this year.

SCHEDULE UPDATE: Friday's Varsity Football scrimmage will now be at 7:30pm at Home vs. St Mary's.