http://www.lockportjournal.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 21 May 2009 02:23:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_141022618.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_141022618.html The AES power plant and the taxes it pays were the big topic as the Somerset Town Board and the Barker School Board searched for common ground in a three-hour executive session at town hall Wednesday. Tue, 19 May 2009 00:02:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_139000448.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_139000448.html The town board and Barker School board are getting together for a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Because litigation will become a topic, the boards will go into executive session, and the meeting will be closed to the public. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:31:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_111022907.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_111022907.html Residents in the Barker School District will be deciding on a proposed budget that calls for a 2.9 percent increase in the tax levy. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:50:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_090234819.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_090234819.html Sometime in the near future, a student-created sculpture will be placed in front of Barker High School to welcome all visitors. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:09:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_078010750.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_078010750.html The Village of Wilson turned out in unprecedented numbers on Wednesday for a mayoral election and voted in a Democrat. Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:52:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_017014141.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_017014141.html Barker High School teacher Loriann Kersch had a question up on her Interwrite board in front of the room for her chemistry class Friday. Students responded in a new way — with a handheld response pad, or "clicker" Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:23:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_278022008.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_278022008.html About two or three years ago, Joshua Desmarais already knew what he wanted to do when he finished high school: Join the U.S. Air Force. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:56:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_238005331.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_238005331.html Silas Molyneaux, at 92 the oldest man at Barker’s Centennial party on Sunday, remembers working summers for the Peas Vinery and eating “poison” maraschino cherries that were canned at what is now PWT (Pizza, Wings and Things) Restaurant on Quaker Street. Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:42:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_219094429.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_219094429.html Within minutes after the sound of gunfire was heard outside Pratt Elementary School, a Barker Police car sped into the parking lot, driving over the curb and coming to rest in the grass near the school entrance. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:47:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_191000810.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_191000810.html Lockport’s In Bloom and the Barker and Wilson garden clubs are hosting peeks at pretty posies, all this weekend. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:28:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_172013057.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_172013057.html A couple of campers grabbed their new friend by his hands, one each, and pulled him toward the cabin anxiously. Some impromptu rock climbing was about to start and they didn’t want to miss it. About a dozen young campers streamed into the cabin near the Camp Kenan mess hall Thursday morning, gathering on cushions and gabbing excitedly as three boys suited up to tackle the rock-climbing wall. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:57:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_164015415.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_164015415.html Students at Pratt Elementary School in Barker learned about animal adaptation from the San Diego Zoo — without leaving their school. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:17:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_158221835.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_158221835.html Two large geodesic domes greeted everyone entering Barker High School last week. The structures were standing outside the high school entrance. Both were built by students in teacher Tom Mallon’s architectural computer aided drawing classes and funded by a grant from the Orleans/Niagara Teacher Center. Tue, 13 May 2008 02:22:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_134031121.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_134031121.html The Barker School District had to find a way to fill a hole known as the 2008-09 school year budget. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:54:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_099015423.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/barker/local_story_099015423.html Senior citizens don’t have to go to Florida for a warm swim. Barker High School is the place to go for therapy, muscle development and low-impact fun on Monday nights.