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Det. Bryce Colvin of the Poplar Bluff Police Department served as a guest speaker for the new popular Forensic Science elective at Senior High on Friday, Sept. 12, demonstrating fingerprint analysis. Earlier this month Colvin became a certified crime scene investigator from the International Association for Identification. Colvin has served as a criminal investigator in Afghanistan for the United States Army Reserve. He has been a detective for four years in his tenure with the police department and a cop for 10 years prior. “I used to have a poster that said, ‘Science is a verb,’ and I want students to see that it holds true,” said instructor Kathy Miller, explaining why she had a desire to start a Forensic

[From left] Rotarian Sheldon Tyler, PBHS assistant principal; StuCo president Lydia Keller and vice president Trevor Asher; and Rotary Club president-elect Matt Winters. On Thursday, Sept. 11, the Rotary Club of Poplar Bluff funded Voting 4 Schools software for Senior High Student Council to use for elections, including the Mock Election, student body and the homecoming court as well as the senior personality awards. The web-based application will save teachers time and make voting more efficient for students allowing for additional data analysis, according to Poplar Bluff R-I educators. In years past, paper ballots were used which high school staff had to hand count. Leaders from the Rotary Club said underwriting the online software subscription was a “no-brainer,” considering all

Cutline: Pictured [from left] are sophomores 2nd Lt. Keanu Elliott, 1st Sgt. Caylee Bradley, 1st Sgt. Zachary Cambron, 1st Sgt. Paige Hooper and Command Sgt. Maj. Jonathan Miller. POPLAR BLUFF  - On Saturday, Aug. 30, in the Bill Emerson Memorial Visitor Center at Wappapello Lake, several cadets from the Poplar Bluff High School Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps attended the Fallen Soldier Ceremony, during which every name of Missouri’s soldiers who lost their lives in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were recited.

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Missouri’s Poplar Bluff Public Schools and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content for K-12 classrooms, announced today an expansion of their partnership that brings Discovery Education’s award-winning digital social studies and science textbooks to junior and high school classrooms district wide. Discovery Education will support the school system’s digital transformation, which is rapidly evolving in partnership with Mooresville Graded School District and helping to prepare students for success in the 21st century. “We are thrilled to expand our collaboration with Discovery Education to provide our educators with resources that are relevant to the 21st Century learner, as well as critical to preparing students to be competitive in the global economy and meeting students’ instructional needs,” said Patty Robertson,

POPLAR BLUFF - Recent Poplar Bluff Technical Career Center graduate of the practical nursing program, Roger Ray, has been selected as a post-secondary male regional award winner of the Missouri Breaking Traditions contest. Ray is eligible for a $100 scholarship from the Foundation of Missouri Women and a $1,000 scholarship from Linn State Technical College. Presently, he has accepted a position at Kneibert Clinic Urgent Care, where he plans to work for a while before becoming a registered nurse. “I’m a non-traditional student in three different ways: my gender, my age and my limited education experience after high school,” wrote Ray on the nomination form, which was submitted by his nursing instructor, Ruth Hutcheson. “If you know of something you want