Ben McCarthy
Recent stories
- Board presented tech timetable
- January 22, 2004
- De Soto High School students would receive personal computing devices during the first semester of the 2004-2005 school year under a tentative timetable shared Monday with the De Soto USD 232 Board of Education.
- Pool referendum language readied
- January 15, 2004
- The De Soto Parks and Recreation Board approved language for a $2.65 million bond referendum this April that would determine the fate of a new pool. The De Soto City Council will now consider the language.
- DHS band readies for Dallas
- December 24, 2003
- Local teens will be leaving Wildcat country for the land of cotton Tuesday when 76 De Soto High School musicians and performers head to Dallas. The band and flag team members are set to perform at the halftime show of the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 2. The group is in the process of making final preparation to make the trip a smooth one. “This is a neat opportunity for the kids,” said band director Justin Love. “We’re taking quite a large group down. Principle Debbie Lynn, a nurse, a number of chaperones and about 50 or so family members will also be there to watch.”
- USD 232 Board approves $2.3 million computer technology allocation
- December 18, 2003
- After a long debate Monday, the De Soto USD 232 Board of Education gave Technology Director Ben Crosier approval of a $2.3 million expansion of thin-client technology. Most of the money will be used for a technology data center at the district service center in downtown De Soto. The data center would be a computer structure that would function as headquarters for the district’s expansion of thin-client computer applications. The data center would allow as many as 600 users throughout the district.
