School food program begins summer shift

Renovation work at Lincoln Middle School and the rapidly approaching summer months has resulted in changes to Sweetwater County School District No. 2’s food program.

Food is now available from Truman, Washington, Monroe, Jackson and Harrison elementary schools, as well as Green River High School.

The program allows children and teens a chance to receive breakfast and lunch meals after schools were closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the weeks following the school closures, the program expanded to send meals on buses to areas where children would have difficulty traveling to a distr...