For the past few years, Mead has struggled with keeping a music teacher for more than a couple years. But this year might just be different with new music teacher Jeffrey Ingraham. According to principal Darin Kovar, Mead has not had the best success in finding a music teacher who is going to stay. Reasons why include many people don't want to go into teaching and many kids don't want to specialize in music, he said. The teacher who Mead officials hired to fill the vacant h

From one small school to another, junior Finn Griffith was the only student who transferred to Mead for the 2026-2027 school year. After previously going to Yutan, the small school setting was nothing new for Griffith. “It was definitely different at first, not knowing the building and the teachers,” Griffith said. “But it wasn’t that much different of a change still being at a small school.” Griffith wasn’t going through these changes alone. He had many people to help him.

Most families vacation on road trips to a nearby state, or fly to the other side of America, but some families take vacations to a whole different country. Whether that is to visit family outside the country or it’s an item they get to check off their bucket list, every family has their own way of vacationing. Holly Miller, science teacher at Mead Public Schools, took a trip to Hawaii and Australia for four weeks to check it off her husband’s bucket list. Miller and her hus

For most first-year teachers, entering a new environment can be filled with pressure and nerves. But for P.E. teacher Jarod Schwartz, he fit right in at Mead Public Schools. Schwartz, a first-year P.E teacher and girl basketball assistant coach, graduated high school from McCool Junction. After going to a small school his whole life, Mead felt like the perfect option for Schwartz. “When I applied to Mead, I liked the location,” Schwartz said. “After talking with administr