The question to the members of Lori Beardsley's sixth-grade class at Oak Grove Elementary School is this: How many of them plan to stay in Lewisburg once they graduate high school or college? Here and there a few hands are tentatively raised. Outside, the temperature remains stubbornly below the freezing mark. A scattering of desultory snowflakes can be seen blowing in the wind, as if foreshadowing a cold, bleak future for the city...
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The question to the members of Lori Beardsley's sixth-grade class at Oak Grove Elementary School is this: How many of them plan to stay in Lewisburg once they graduate high school or college?
Here and there a few hands are tentatively raised. Outside, the temperature remains stubbornly below the freezing mark. A scattering of desultory snowflakes can be seen blowing in the wind, as if foreshadowing a cold, bleak future for the city.
How many, then, intend to get out of Dodge just as quickly as they reach the age of legal majority?
...Pick up a copy of Friday's paper of the Marshall County Tribune for the rest of this interesting story.
