Local educators honored

The Jackson Chamber of Commerce has named six public and parochial school teachers as educators of the year.

They are Sally Lipke, a second-grade teacher at St. Paul Lutheran School; Carole Baugh, a teacher at West Lane Elementary School; Dan Brown, a biology and chemistry teacher at Jackson High School; David Brummel, an eighth-grade science teacher at Russell Hawkins Jr. High School; Julie Walker, who teaches academically gifted students at Jackson Middle School, and Kelly Crawford, a music teacher at West Lane Elementary School and the Millersville Attendance Center.

The teachers will be honored at a chamber banquet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Jackson.

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