Bolton School

• Bolton Is Area's 4th I.B. School -- Tough Program Earns Prestigious Diploma

Bolton High School in Arlington has been confirmed as an International Baccalaureate school, one of four schools in the Memphis area certified to award the globally recognized diploma. With its recent approval, Bolton became the second school in the Shelby County Schools system to offer the rigorous academic program. Germantown High was the first I.B. school in West Tennessee.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• March 22, 2011

• Top Grad of Bolton 'School'

With the berating of subordinates and the foul and abusive language Mayor Anderson uses toward his staff, His Honor is valedictorian of the John Bolton School of Workplace Management. Merrill Dodge

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• September 02, 2005

• Teen Dies, 3 Hurt in Crash On Rural Road -- Truck Hit Tree in Incident Near Bolton High School

One teenager was killed and three others were critically injured Tuesday afternoon when their pickup left the road and struck a tree about 3 miles from Bolton High School. Rachel Lutrell, 14, was killed just after 2:30 p.m. when a Ford F- 150 pickup, which police said was traveling at a high speed, hit a tree just off Old Brunswick south of Bolton High.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• November 10, 2010

• Donations Help Texas Ex-Cheerleader in Legal Fight

SILSBEE, Texas - Rakheem Bolton approached the free-throw line as his school's cheerleading squad rooted for him to hit the shot during a 2009 playoff game. One cheerleader stepped away from the group, folded her arms and stood in silence, refusing to cheer for the star athlete who she says raped her at a party in this Southeast Texas town.

• Charleston Gazette
• July 05, 2011

• Bolton to Appeal Nine Forfeits -- Principal Says School Had No Way of Knowing Player Was Ineligible

Bolton principal David Stephens said Friday he plans to appeal a Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association ruling that the school's football team must forfeit nine games for its use of an ineligible player. Stephens on Thursday reported the team's inadvertent use of an ineligible player in its first nine games to TSSAA executive director Ronnie Carter. He said he will appeal the organization's ruling Monday in Nashville to the TSSAA's Board of Control.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• November 05, 2007

• Police plan for school is debated; Bolton resource officer would work at Nashoba.

Byline: Karen Nugent The following correction was published Feb. 24, 2007: BOLTON - At Thursday's meeting of the Nashoba Regional School Committee...

• Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
• Nbr. 2007, March 2007

• Bolton High Family Mourns for Losses During School Year -- Two Students, Teacher Died in Recent Months

Mourning family, friends and Bolton High School students poured into the Memphis Funeral Home chapel on Germantown Parkway Wednesday, with many forced to stand among bouquets of pink roses and lilies. They wept for Bolton High senior Amanda Hillin, who was killed Sunday on Walnut Grove near Farm Road in an auto accident when the GMC Yukon she was riding in collided with a red Honda that was changing lanes.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• May 25, 2007

• Bolton 5k a Success -- Event Raises $2,000 for School Programs

Bolton High School's third 5K Fun Walk/Run on March 1 attracted 178 participants, surpassing last year's number of participants by 100. The annual event was hosted by Bolton's Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) to raise funds to maintain and expand new and existing programs, such as the high school's "Project Graduation," an all-night, alcohol- and drug-free lock-in party organized for the senior class at Gameday Sports Academy at 7790 Fischer Steel Road in Cordova. The event was originally formed to keep youngsters off the roads and out of trouble.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• March 12, 2008

• Theater / Stagelight Students Ready for 'Journey'

Spring is in the air and "magic" will surround Bolton High School's StageLight Theatre as leading actors from the past 26 years return to the stage to enchant audiences in a season finale review. Magic: A Journey Through Time," written and directed by Karen Dean and assisted by theatre teacher Jeff White, will feature the talents of current theatre students singing, dancing and tapping to delightful musical numbers from such shows as "West Side Story," "Guys and Dolls," "Oklahoma!," "Footloose," "Into the Woods," "High School Musical," "Anything Goes," "42nd Street," "Grease," "Annie " and "South Pacific.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• May 02, 2011

• 5k for Slain Educator a 'Tradition' -- High Teacher at Annual Event

The 5K race in memory of Bolton High School English teacher Ashley Scott has become a reunion of sorts. The web of people connected by the highly publicized murder of a 28-year-old teacher, beaten to death in Cordova by her husband Thanksgiving Day 2006, come together annually to raise money for a general cause that became personal to many in the Bartlett community after this case.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• October 10, 2011