SWEETWATER-The Sweetwater Board of Education covered a variety of topics during Monday's January meeting.

Mike Treadway, East District director for the Tennessee School Boards Association, presented the Board of Education with the award it earned for being a Board of Distinction. To earn the prestigious honor, the School Board had to meet standards in planning, policy, promotion and board development.

The board listened to a complaint from a parent, who said his special needs child in the school system was allowed to carry around and come home with a 40-watt light and could have cut himself or another child. The father listed other issues he said he has had with the school system.

See full story in the Sunday, Jan. 20, edition of The Advocate & Democrat.