{"id":270851,"date":"2013-07-28T17:15:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T22:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=270851"},"modified":"2013-07-29T17:59:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:59:37","slug":"delay-in-scholarships-at-west-rusk-isd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=270851","title":{"rendered":"Delay in Scholarships at West Rusk ISD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/West-Rusk-Schools2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/West-Rusk-Schools2-150x110.jpg\" alt=\"West Rusk Schools2\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-270852\" \/><\/a>NEW LONDON &#8212; On May 29, Robert Jordan made a huge announcement to the 2013 West Rusk High School graduating class. Jordan said his friend, filmmaker Nicolas Sturghill, would be giving each senior a scholarship to East Texas Baptist University. Weeks have passed, still no money has come in, and now that the July 31 deadline for the first tuition payment is coming closer, it seems these students&#8217; chances of attending college this fall may be out of reach. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Friday our news partner KETK did some digging, and according to Sturghill&#8217;s business manager, Jennifer Pool, this announcement was not supposed to take place yet. Pool says Sturghill wasn&#8217;t planning on giving out these scholarships until 2014, when his new film was to be released. KETK headed to New London to see what nearby residents had to say about this, and while many declined to be on camera, the responses ranged from &#8220;saddened&#8221; to &#8220;disgusted.&#8221; On Saturday, KETK reached out to Sturghill once again, but he refused to answer any further questions, and Pool says she has no further information. We&#8217;ll continue to update this story as more information comes in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW LONDON &#8212; On May 29, Robert Jordan made a huge announcement to the 2013 West Rusk High School graduating class. Jordan said his friend, filmmaker Nicolas Sturghill, would be giving each senior a scholarship to East Texas Baptist University. Weeks have passed, still no money has come in, and now that the July 31 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=270851\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delay in Scholarships at West Rusk ISD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 22:33:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271047,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270851\/revisions\/271047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}