By Mickey Zezzo Contributing Writer BEAVERCREEK -- Ben Heider for president! That's a little far-fetched, of course, and maybe just dream material for the scholarly Carroll High School 2008 grad.

By Jessamy Brown, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas May 18--Students on Carroll Senior High's literary criticism team are state champions.

By Ashley Smith, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind. Feb. 2--State approval for a new elementary school has set Northwest Allen County Schools on its way to completing two major building projects in the next two years.

By HEREABOUTS DIANA BLOWERS She attended St. Luke School as a child, taught there early in her education career and now, as the principal of the Beavercreek Catholic School, Leslie Vondrell is nurturing a new generation of students and teachers.

By Ashley Smith, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind. Dec. 5--Northwest Allen County Schools' ISTEP+ scores increased in 13 of 18 testing areas this year, though the good news was tempered by decreases at Arcola and Cedar Canyon elementaries.