OTSEGO LOCAL SCHOOLS
Superintendent's Weekly Update - June 29, 2018
ONLINE REGISTRATION IS OPEN -
** Please make sure you pay attention to the alternate transportation request information below. Please fill out final forms and the alternate transportation request information ASAP. It will be due July 10th.
Click here to start your online registration for a returning student. You will use your same account from last year. I just completed the registration form for my own kids and it took me less than 5 minutes to complete it. All of the information automatically came over from last year. You will only have to sign each page and update any information that may have changed. It would be helpful to all of us if you could fill this out ASAP.
Parents or Students registering for the first time should see the Parent Playbook document attached below.
You will also get email reminders from Final Forms. These emails will be sent to the email addresses we have on file from last year.
TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION - For those that will be filling out an Alternate Transportation request these will be done within Final Forms. The deadline will be July 10th. Please fill out Final Forms by July 10th with any alternate transportation requests. If you have any questions please contact Eva at evasher@otsegoknights.org or 419-823-4381 ext. 3156
New Instant Alert notification - Starting in July we will be using a new instant alert phone, email, and text system. This will replace your Honeywell account that you managed in previous years. The phone numbers and email that we will use will come from your Final Forms registration that you will submit to us. The phone numbers we will be using will be guardian 1 and 2 phone numbers. The alerts will also be in email form and you can submit several email addresses in final forms when you do your registration. All messages will come in to you as a phone call, text (if the number you supplied was a cell), and email.
GO KNIGHTS!
Adam
Student Highlights
Congratulations Sedona!
Dirt Update
Update: We will still have dirt available this summer, but I am not sure of the exact dates. It will likely be in early July. I will have a week or so notice when they will be loading it up for everyone. I will send out several emails with the dates and times that you can arrange for your trucks to be here to haul it away.
We will have a company here loading dirt for ANYONE who wants it. You are responsible for finding someone haul it for you, but there will be equipment here to load it for you. If you are interested please email me and I will give you more information. The dirt isnt the best but its free and we need to get rid of as much as we can. Local 18 Operators Engineers will be providing this service for us at no cost. They have a large training site in Cygnet and will be coming to Otsego to train and complete a lot of work on campus.
I would like to personally thank Ben Brooks, Otsego Community member and parent for setting this up for us. Ben and the Operators Engineers will be grading a large portion of our campus at NO COST to us. We are extremely fortunate that they are willing to do this with their training program. This will save us well over $400,000!! We have needed this done for a long time, but we could not justify spending the money for this, but now we are going to be able to get it done! Thank you Ben and Local 18!! #OtsegoProud
Back to School Week and Open House Information
Back to School Week Information: High School Commons (please park in the back parking lot)
Wednesday, August 8th 8:00 am to 8:00 pm . *** Please note that we are only doing one day of Back to School Week Registration.
- School pictures taken for Elementary, Junior High, and High School 9th-12th grades (including Penta Students)
- School fees-pay Elementary and JH.
- Grades K-5 - $45
- Grades 6-8 - $35
- Athletics-all pay to participate fees, schedules.
- Jeanne Jeffers, Food Service Director, to hand out menus, fill out free/reduced lunch forms, and add lunch money to your child’s account.
- Eva Vasher, Transportation Director, to hand out bus schedules and bus stops.
- Schedule pick up for HS and JH students.
- High School Yearbooks will be for sale
- Otsego Music Boosters will have a table at back to school days to collect Band and Choir fees, Music spirit wear, volunteer sign ups, Music related notification listings and Formal wear fittings.
- Otsego Athletic Boosters will have a table for spirit wear sales and volunteer information.
Picture Forms: Please see below to download the individual school picture form. If you do not want to order online there will be forms available during back to school days.
Open House Information – Thursday, August 16th
Elementary School – 6:00 to 7:00 pm
Junior High – 6:30 to 7:30 pm
High School – 7:00 to 8:00 pm
Community Wide Dinner in the Parking Lot the Night of Open House!
The Otsego Elementary PTO will be sponsoring various food trucks in the parking lot from 4:30 to 8:30 pm. on Thursday, August 16th
Thank you for the support of the Elementary PTO!
We will be bringing in students at different times again next year. See below for the grade level start dates. More updates about this will come from your principals.
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL GRADES 1-6 and 9th MONDAY, AUGUST 20th
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL GRADES 7, 8, 10-12 – TUESDAY, AUGUST 21st
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN – TUESDAY, AUGUST 21st
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL PRESCHOOL – THURSDAY, AUGUST 23rd
If you have any questions please contact the school.
Central Office and Food Service: 419-823-4381 option 1
High School: 419-823-4381 option 2
Junior High: 419-823-4381 option 3
Elementary: 419-823-4381 option 4
Transportation: 419-823-4381 option 5
FREE SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM
FREE Summer Food Service Program
Otsego Local Schools will host our first Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) beginning Monday, June 4th. The nation-wide program is designed to serve FREE meals to ALL students 18 years and under during the summer season. The U.S. Department of Agricultural has designated Grand Rapids and Weston as eligible sites for the summer of 2018. We are excited to announce that we have partnered with the Weston Library as the lunch sites this summer!
The FREE program is available Monday-Friday and runs from Monday, June 4th until Friday, August 10th. No meals will be served July 2nd to July 6th or Wednesday, July 25th. Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to Noon. and has the required five USDA components, which are milk, fruit, vegetable, meat, and bread. All families are encouraged to participate in this program, NO SIGN-UP or REGISTRATION is required. The USDA estimates over 200 million lunches will be served across the country this summer.
Site Locations:
Weston Public Library
13153 Main Street
Weston, OH 43569
Grand Rapids Branch of the Weston Library
17620 Bridge Street
Grand Rapids, OH 43522
Times meals are served:
11:30 am to Noon
Click Here for USDA and Otsego Program Information
If you have any questions about the program, please contact Jeanne Jeffers, Director of Food Service, jjeffers@otsegoknights.org or 419-823-4381 ext. 1104.
Weston Public Library Summer Reading Program
ATHLETICS
WESTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INFORMATION
COMMUNITY EVENTS SECTION
2018
Rhythm on the River
Sponsored by the Grand Rapids Historical Society
Programs at M.J. Wright Pavilion on Towpath
[In case of rain, concerts moved to Old Fire Station]
DC Taylor
Acoustic Guitar Duo – 50’s Through Today’s Hits
Dudley Yetter and Chris Watson
4:00 p.m., Sunday, June 17
Toraigh
Traditional Irish Folk Music
4:00 p.m., Sunday, June 24
Bliss
Acoustic Rock/Folk
4:00 p.m., Sunday, July 1
Quartet Bernadette
Unique Blend of Jazz, Pop and
Gems from the Great American Songbook
Quartet of Four String Instrument Players
4:00 p.m., Sunday, July 15
Buddy Love and the Coconuts
Fun, Energetic, 50’s and 60’s Rock Band
4:00 p.m., Sunday, July 29
North Coast Big Band
Jazz~Swing Music~Big Band Sound
Director: Gary Keller
4:00 p.m., Sunday, August 26
Ol’ Creek Road
Folk Band Playing Bluegrass, Gospel, Americana, 1970’s Tunes
4:00 p.m., Sunday, September 9
Otsego Swing Choir and Otsego Marching Band
4:00 p.m., Sunday, October 7
Local High School Organizations
Directors: Brien Sewell and Rich Dubler
4:00 p.m., Sunday, October 7
Questions, Concerns, Comments, or Rumors
Otsego Board of Education
President: Elizabeth Gorski jegorski@frontier.com
Vice President: Judy Snyder jasnyder715@gmail.com
Board Member: James Harter jameslharter@gmail.com
Board Member: Mark Tolles mdt814@cs.com
Board Member: Brad Anderson banderson.otsego@gmail.com
Adam Koch, Superintendent
Email: akoch@otsegoknights.org
Website: www.otsegoknights.org
Location: 18505 Tontogany Creek Road, Bowling Green, OH, United States
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @AdamKoch_Otsego
Lisa Austin, Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent/EMIS Coordinator
Email: laustin@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Lauri Dunham, Special Education Director
Email: ldunham@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Stephen Bihary, School Psychologist
Email: sbihary@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Luke Swartz, Technology Director
Email: lswartz@otsegoknights.org
Website: www.otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Katrina Baughman, Elementary Principal
Email: kbaughman@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @KBaughman723
Mike Wiley, Assistant Elementary Principal
Email: mwiley@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @PrincpalWiley
Kevin O'Shea, High School Principal
Email: koshea@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @KosheaOHS
Jon Rife, Junior High Principal
Email: jrife@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @OJHS_Principal
Tom Ferdig, High School Athletic Director and Assistant Principal Grades 6-12
Email: tferdig@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Eva Vasher, Director of Transportation and Custodial
Email: evasher@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Jeanne Jeffers, Director of Food Service
Email: jjeffers@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381
Twitter: @Otsego_Cafe
Rick Haskins, Director of Maintenance
Email: rhaskins@otsegoknights.org
Phone: 419-823-4381