Welcome to the New Fort River Blog!

Hello to All Fort River Families, Staff and Friends! I hope that you all had a great summer and are now settling back into the school year. I have been busy making some changes to the way the Parent Council will communicate with all of you this year. Instead of sending out The Fort River Front Page every week, I will be updating our brand-new Fort River Parent Council Blog. In case you don’t already know what a blog is, it’s basically an easy-to-maintain website. Some of the advantages of the blog are: (a) it’s a good place for parents to monitor the Parent Council news (b) it’s a good resource to check on things like the Parent Council calendar events (c) people who use RSS readers can subscribe to it (d) it’s much less hassle for parents than keeping old email newsletters around (e) it’s a great repository for Parent Council institutional knowledge. The advantage to me is that it takes a lot less time than the newsletter! Please fee free to bookmark this page, send the link to other Fort River families and friends, and to check it at any time. I will update it at least once a week (on Fridays) and I will continue to send out weekly email reminders to you every Friday to check the updates. If you use a news reader program (such as iGoogle or Netvibes) you can add the feed to your page. I will also continue to send out automatic calendar reminders (via email) to remind you of upcoming events. Please feel free to send me any questions, suggestions, or corrections. Thanks! Ann McLaughlin Fort River Parent Council Secretary and Blogger (!) damclaughlin@comcast.net