Negotiations to proceed with Orchard teachers for next term

Orchard Advisory Board of Education members, Candace Hoke, Kristi Schutt, DeAnna Clifton and Nate Schwager, will be joined by Original Orchard Board of Education members Terra Williby and Terri Hergert, beginning with the December meeting, as they work to dissolve Nebraska Unified District 1 and begin transition efforts to the new Summerland school.

Hergert and Williby sat in the audience at the Nov. 13 Advisory Board meeting held at Orchard High School.

Both Schutt and Cathy Cooper, Orchard principal, said they had fielded questions from staff regarding future employment. Clifton said she hop...