As part of their multimedia education, the Burlington web scripting class is proud to announce the launch of the Burlington Elks YouTube Channel. Highlights and clips from various activities will be made available throughout the school year. Current video offerings are limited to high school basketball, but the variety is expected to grow as the class gains more experience. To see the full list of video clips available, visit www.youtube.com/burlingtonelks.

At their regular February meeting, the Burlington Board of Education approved a change in the calendar to allow Parent-Teacher conferences to be moved from May 24 to March 9 and March 11. Conferences will be held from 3:30 to 7:30 each evening. There will be no school on March 12 with Spring Break following the next week.

4-H and Boy Scouts are teaming up for a community food drive to benefit the Alfalfa County DHS Food Pantry. If yo live in Amorita, Byron, Dirftwood or Burlington, please leave items outside your door for pick up. Those who do not live in town may leave items at the following locations:

• Burlington Post Office
• Amorita Post Office
• B & R Lunchstop
• Burlington School
• Donations may also be brought to Tuesday night's basketball games

Purple Pride is selling Purple Jackets in Adult and Youth Sizes. Orders must be recieved by Thursday, Nov. 12. Return to your child's teacher or Marci Hyde at Town Hall. Click here to download the form.

Burlington School will be hosting our annual Veterans Day Program, honoring all Veterans of the Armed Forces. This program is a community event, open to the public. The purpose of this program is to celebrate and honor the service and sacrifice of our American Veterans. By recognizing and honoring our Veterans, we are also providing a legacy of history and tradition for our students and for the people in the community.

Our Veteran’s Day Assembly will be November 11, 2009 at 8:30 A.M. in the auditorium. All Veterans and their guests are welcome. We also welcome any member of the public to join with us in our effort to celebrate and pay respect to our Veterans. We request that any Veteran or publically elected official notify us of your intention to come so that we can acknowledge your presence during our program.

This year we would like to create a memorial video to play during our program. Any and all pictures of Veterans in single or group service time photos would be appreciated. Please include a short description of the picture, and include the relationship of any student to the individual(s). Please submit photos to Mrs. Marteney in person or by emailing as soon as possible. Copies will be returned after the program.

An election is to be held on Tuesday, Feb. 9, and a second election is to be held on April 6, if needed, for Board of Education seat # 5, currently held by Beth Guffy, with the filing period to be from 8:00 a.m., Monday, December 7 to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 9, 2009, with contest of candidacy petitions to be filed with the county election board until Friday, December 11, 2009. The Board of Education voted in favor of the closing of split precincts 210 and 140 with 0 registered voters.

It's finally here! The new Burlington School website has been redesigned with the help of Tonya Randall and Cory Claflin. As our students learn how to work on the website, the content will be maintained by the web design class under the direction of Mr. Randall.

With this new site, we are allowing better access to information that meet transparency regulations for students, parents and community members. We are also very excited to offer information about our student organizations as well as scholarships and weekly schedules.

Please keep in mind that this has been a massive undertaking by volunteers. If you come across a page on our website that is outdated, not working or incomplete, please let us know by contacting Mr. Randall.