Lake County School Administrators -- Bringing Back the Locals

The Madville Times welcomes another former Lake County resident back to the area. KJAM reports that the Rutland School District has hired Madison native Ron Swier to take the helm as principal and guidance counselor for the district. Swier taught PE and history at Rutland back in the 1970s. Swier comes back to us from the Bridgewater, where he principalled for a while. Swier replaces Val Parsley, who ably ruled the Rambler roost for a decade and a half before deciding to take on a new challenge as HS English teacher at Colman-Egan this year.

Swier joins Madison' s new superintendent Vince Schaefer, a Franklin alum, in returning to the old stomping grounds to lead our schools. The Madville Times has commented earlier on how this area struggles to keep good school personnel from leaving for bigger money and broader opportunities in the People's Democratic Republic of Minnesota and other greener pastures. However, it's good to see that Lake County has something (stubborn hometown spirit? Lake Herman? Crazy Days?) that can draw some of our natives back to do good work here.