Cleburne Times-Review, Cleburne, TX Joshua ISD

Joshua band performs at national championship game

2012-01-11T14:16:10-06:00

The Joshua High School band spent its weekend in New Orleans on an invitation to perform during halftime of the Bowl Championship Series game between Louisiana State University and the University of Alabama.

Holly, jolly follies

2011-12-22T16:25:37-06:00

Most school districts celebrate Christmas

2011-12-13T12:30:52-06:00

Ask most of the school districts in Johnson County how they feel about “Merry Christmas” or Santa Claus, and the response is the same. Christmas is welcome in most schools, so long as students take care to not play favorites with individual gifts.

Expanding minds

2011-12-09T17:00:00-06:00

There are geniuses among us. Perhaps they are of the grade-school variety, and perhaps, students in Joshua ISD. Think again if you don’t believe that a sixth-grade girl can one day find ways to cure cancer.

County schools offering healthier options

2011-09-20T13:45:00-05:00

According to the Centers for Disease Control, about one-third of all Americans are obese. More than 22 percent of Texans are obese. That may not come as a surprise, but in Johnson County, the latest numbers from 2008 suggested more than 29.3 percent of adults over the age of 20 tip the scales into the obese category, and the eating habits of Mom and Dad are being passed down to children.

TAKS results vary for Johnson County schools

2011-07-31T19:18:39-05:00

When the Texas Projection Measure was integrated into the formula for calculating Texas public school test scores three years ago, many school administrators cheered.

Hard hats go for little heads

2011-05-27T12:00:00-05:00

Heads were turning recently at Caddo Grove Elementary School in Joshua, when the Texas Medical Society and Johnson County Medical Society donated 100 bicycle helmets to honor Michael Shaff, a fourth-grade student who was injured in a bicycle/automobile accident in April.

JHS senior Long wins Civil War Challenge

2011-05-13T15:55:28-05:00

Joshua High School senior Kade Long was up to the challenge. To be more specific, the Civil War Challenge, co-sponsored nationally by The History Channel and Houghton Mifflin Publishing Co. to bring attention to the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

Civil minded

2011-05-09T12:00:37-05:00

Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood is seldom mentioned in the same sentence as military heroes such as Patton, Pershing, MacArthur, Westmoreland and Eisenhower.

Joshua's Vaughn headed to state golf tournament

2011-04-21T16:58:25-05:00

Dillon Vaughn of Joshua is headed to the UIL Class 4A state golf tournament after beating Burleson’s Colby Webb by a stroke in a sudden-death playoff to finish second individually at the Region I Tournament in Abilene on Tuesday.