Plans for a semi-regular Homecoming at Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn were put on hold last week due to the number of high school students placed under public health quarantines.

According to a statement posted Sept. 25 on the district's Facebook page, all Homecoming activities will be moved to the week of Oct. 5-9. The decision came from the students themselves, said science teacher Isaac Skalsky, who serves as advisor of the H-M-S Student Council.

"Essentially, last Friday the student council met and expressed that by moving it one week, they hoped that most of their peers would be able to return...