{"id":33863,"date":"2026-03-26T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=33863"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:13:07","slug":"st-elmo-school-board-purchases-two-school-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/33863-st-elmo-school-board-purchases-two-school-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Elmo School Board Purchases Two School Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>St. Elmo school board members purchased two 71-passenger school buses from Midwest Bus Sales, renewed membership in the IHSA and in the SEPCO purchasing cooperative for next year, and approved Vandalia Asphalt Service to oil and chip the high school and elementary parking lots and roadways.<\/p>\n<p>The Board hired Robert Poppe, Jr. as a substitute bus driver, and hired Janni Wright as a substitute custodian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Elmo school board members purchased two 71-passenger school buses from Midwest Bus Sales, renewed membership in the IHSA and in the SEPCO purchasing cooperative for next year, and approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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