School closings come at critical time

Students may have been back in some classroom today, but were their heads in their books, or outside on the sledding hill?

"Routine will be the best thing that can happen to us, whenever we get back," said Urbana Middle School Principal Nancy Clinton. "The routine is what will settle everybody down, including the teachers."

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