Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties

Several positions opening at H-M-S this year

Middle school, elementary administrators top the list

Two administrators at Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn Community School will be leaving the district at the end of the 2020-21 school year.

Mark Dorhout, who has been middle school principal at H-M-S since 2004, has accepted a middle school science teaching position at the Panorama Community School District in Panora. Dorhout had been a science teacher prior to becoming an administrator.

Elementary Principal Cathy Jochims is retiring at the end of the current school year. She has served in that role at H-M-S since 2014, and was an elementary classroom teacher in the district for 22 years prior to that....