TEACHERS MET TUESDAY to prepare for school, which starts next Tuesday.

The summer is winding down for students at Hudson Area Schools, and school bells will be ringing next week, bringing summer to a close.

Hudson Area Schools will begin the 2004-05 school year on Tuesday, September 5.  "This summer marks the first for us of implementing a new State law that requires schools to start after Labor Day," said School Superintendent Kathy Malnar.  "While that may sound good, it simply means we will go later in the spring.  For the 2006-07 school year, our last day of school will be Friday June 8, 2007 and graduation will be on Sunday, June 10, 2007." 

School begins at 8:10 a.m. at Lincoln Elementary School  (7:55 a.m./ 1st bell breakfast/students report to class.)  School is dismissed at 3:04 PM. Lincoln car riders will continue to be picked up on Tiffin Street behind Lincoln Elementary.  The car riders will be walked out the rear exits to Tiffin in the afternoon.  Cars will line up and pick up their riders and exit around the cul de sac. 

School begins at Hudson Middle School (6-8) and Hudson Area High School (9-12) at 8:15 a.m. and is dismissed at 2:57 p.m.

Teachers, custodians, and others have been working hard at getting ready for the opening of school.   

"When students return on Tuesday, September 5th the schools will be clean and shiny and ready for the school year to begin," Malnar said.  "There will be two new computer labs – one at Lincoln Elementary and one at the Middle/High School.  Three gently used buses will have replaced three of the oldest on our fleet.  There will be new teachers at both buildings to greet students, as well as other new staff members." 

Malnar also said that the spirits of the staff were high, at least partly due to the fact that teacher and custodian contracts were quietly settled earlier this year. Teachers ratified a three-year contract in July. The easing of the fiscal crisis that the school has endured the last four years, along with the resumption of some projects and services that had been cut for budgetary reasons  has also added to the positive feelings as the school year approaches. Malnar said that she's also cautiously optimistic about school enrollment. Although things can change drastically in the first few weeks of school -- they did last year, for instance -- initial projections appear to show an increase in student numbers for the year, which would also mean an increase in state funding in the future.

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