The Eastern Mini-Relay for Life will be held Wednesday, May 1st and it looks to be a beautiful, sunny day! The High School Student Council will be offering several fun activities for the students to participate in. Rockin' Reggie will be playing music, Farmers Bank will be handing out cold water to all students, and Kona Ice will be available for purchase ($3 and up) with a portion from sales being donated to the American Cancer Society. All money received from our students will be sent to the ACS to help find a cure. K-6 face painting ($2) is Thursday - Preschool Friday. Thank you for your donations!
Dress Up Days
5/1 Wednesday: Beach Day
5/2 Thursday: Wacky Day
5/3 Friday: Eastern Spirit Day
5/6 Monday: Favorite Team Day
5/7 Tuesday: Sunglasses/Hat Day
2024-2025 Kindergarten Registration
Kindergarten screening and registration will be held on Thursday, May 2nd and
Friday, May 3rd from 8:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. All children to be enrolled should
be screened and registered at this time. Please call to schedule an appointment
at (740) 985-3304.
Children being enrolled for Kindergarten in the Eastern Local School District must
turn five years old on or before August 1, 2024.
See attached flyer for additional details.
Spring sports senior night was originally scheduled for Wednesday 5/1, but will now be on Tuesday 5/7.
Softball will host a sectional playoff game on Wednesday 5/8 at 5:00pm vs Miller.
Eastern Junior High Cheer is hosting a Father Daughter Dance for Pre K- 6th Grade on Sunday April 28th from 2:00-4:00pm in the Elementary Cafeteria.
This is a reminder that students with perfect attendance in grades 7-12 for the month of April will be placed into a drawing for a $75 Walmart gift card.
Thursday, April 25th is Family Night at Eastern Elementary from 4:00-6:00p.m. Come out and join us for a night full of fun activities! Food will be provided! We will also have our annual Art Show! Come and see your children's artwork hanging throughout the building. Our PTO will also have the Book Fair set up on this evening.
Eastern buses will not run Dewitt's Run today. Please meet the bus at the Long Bottom post office.
Meigs County families, with school-aged children, mark your calendars for this Thursday, April 18. The monthly, drive through food distribution will take place at the Meigs Local Administrative office building (formerly Salisbury Elem.) at 41765 Pomeroy Pike in Pomeroy.
First come, first served from 4:30-6:00PM or until supplies run out.
Good morning Eastern buses will not run Dewitt's Run run this morning, those students may meet the bus at the Longbottom post office. Thank you.
Eagles helping Eagles. Big thank you to this crew for helping pack, and deliver Eagle packs of food to students in need.
Good morning Eastern buses will not run the following roads due to high water and debris this morning. The only road closure we have this morning is Dewitt's Run. Those students may meet the bus at the Long Bottom Post Office. Thank You.
Good morning Eastern school buses will not run the following roads this morning due to high water. State Route 248 in Longbottom from the Sandhill intersection to the state Route 124 intersection. Also state Route 124 in Longbottom from the Longbottom post office to Dewitt's Run. And finally state Route 124 from Forked Run to the Belleville Dam. Thank you
Tonight's Baseball and Softball games at Southern have been rescheduled to Wednesday 5/8.
On Tuesday, May 7th Eastern Jr./Sr. High School will have a coalition of law enforcement experts from the FBI and other state agencies at the school to give students in grades 7-12 a presentation regarding internet safety, predator behavior, and other precautionary information to provide students with the best digital navigation and safety skills possible. If you do not wish for your child to watch this presentation, please send a note to the office. Feel free to reach out with any questions if you have any. This presentation is occurring in many other high schools across Southeast Ohio.
Garret A. Hall
Principal. Eastern Jr./Sr. High School
gahall@easternlocal.net
(740) 985-3329
Excellence, Pride, Tradition, Scholarship
Good morning Eastern buses will not run the following roads this morning. Keebaugh Follrod, Oak Hill, and Scout Camp due to high water.
Tonight's Softball game at Athens has been canceled.
Tonight's home Baseball game vs. Federal Hocking has been rescheduled to Saturday 5/4 at 12:00pm.
Curtis Jeffers, Eastern 7th grader won the perfect attendance drawing for the month of March. Curtis' prize is a brand new Android 125 GB tablet with a wireless mouse and keyboard. Congratulations Curtis! We will continue to do perfect attendance drawings for the months of April and May with each month's prize being a $75 Walmart Gift Card.
Congratulations to Olivia Wood for being selected as the Eastern Jr./Sr. High School Student of the Month. One teacher wrote: Olivia Wood is one of the nicest girls in the senior class to her peers and is ready to learn every day. She makes her classmates feel welcome and is a great role model for younger students to look up too. Olivia also won a $25 Walmart Girt Card, congratulations!
