POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Ideas are flowing more freely between faculty, board and administration at Three Rivers Community College, with trustees participating on various college committees.

Darcie Froman sees coming home to Miami as an opportunity to share. “It's an honor to come home and share with the community and especially with the children what I have learned over the past few years ... what I love to do,” Forman said.

Some families have summer rituals of spending a week at the lakeside cottage or packing up the vehicle for a long road trip. At times, Canika Owen-Robinson wishes life was that easy.

A public reception for retiring Missoula County Public Schools Superintendent Jim Clark takes place Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Florence Building, 111 N. Higgins Ave.

SMYRNA — Plans to create a magnet program out of Central Middle School in downtown Murfreesboro for grades K-12 in the next four years has some parents hoping for an expanded high school magnet program in Smyrna.