Loretto News

There's a WAFF48 News update to a story we first brought you last summer. We told you about moldy classrooms that *could* be making students sick at South Lawrence Elementary in Loretto, Tennessee.

The Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary closed Loretto High School at the end of the school year.

Aspire Public Schools has selected its principal for the K-8 public charter school that will open on the former Loretto High School campus.

Listen to the report The void being left by the closure of Loretto High School is going to be filled by Aspire Public Schools.

Ruth Viggins of Christiana announces the engagement of her daughter, Kathy Viggins, to Mark Hollmann of Athens, Ala.

It had the joyous, vibrant feel that a high school graduation is supposed to have: smiles, hugs, elegant graduation gowns and the nervous excitement from kids about to leave high school.

Loretto senior Blythe Lasher, left, drops an item of special significance to her high school experience into a trunk during Wednesday's rehearsal for today's baccalaureate ceremony; at right are Emily Whalen, center, and Annie Cooley.

A soap company that announced it was opening a facility in Lawrence County five months ago announced they are leaving town.

Cristo Rey High School, a small Catholic school serving low-income students, is studying whether to buy the Loretto High School campus.

LORETTO, TN - Flora Mae Rice, age 87, of Loretto, Tennessee, formerly of the Richwood area, died Thursday evening, April 2, 2009 at the Maury Regional Hospital in Columbia, TN.

The decision by the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary to close Loretto High School is without question among the saddest situations ever to confront our congregation.

Rallies and pleas from students aren't enough to keep Loretto High School open, school leaders said Friday.

For all the speculation about the fate of Loretto High School in months or years to come, one fact is clear: The school is already for sale at a price of $10.3 million.

Jan 29, 2009 10:52 pm US/Pacific There's new hope for Loretto High School. Hundreds packed a local church to try and find a way to keep the all-girls Catholic school open.

Olivia Mickle, a senior at Loretto High School, waves a "help save Loretto" sign as she drives by the rally in support of Loretto high school along El Camino Ave.

Hundreds of students showed up on their day off to fight for their school. Loretto High School will shut down this June because of the low enrollment rate, but students and parents say they are determined to ...

Loretto High School students, parents and alumni gathered Thursday night in hopes of hearing good news.

Dwight Johnson expects to lose 40 percent of his business starting in mid-February because of a new MTSU policy that will prohibit him from selling tobacco products inside the campus-based convenience store he ...

The drive to keep Loretto High School from closing gained credibility and a powerful ally Thursday when the effort to save the Catholic all-girls school received the support of the spiritual leader of the ...

San Juan Unified School District is opening its doors to Loretto High students. The private Catholic, all-girls school announced that it will close at the end of this school year because of declining ...