HPS names employees of the year

A lot of people would quail at the thought of facing 20 or 30 kids first thing in the morning. For Deb Newbauer and Robin LaBrie it's matter of course, and they don't seem to mind.

"It's never boring. I get up every morning and I think how much I love my job and how lucky I am to be a teacher," said sixth-grade English teacher LaBrie.

"I enjoy working with kids," agrees Newbauer, whose No. 15 school bus - better known to students for the blue frog and eagle that grace the window for easy identification - covers about 70 miles a day. "You can see a lot of their personalities. Each one's their o...