The H1N1 influenza virus, informally called the swine flu, is making the rounds in Sweet Home, and attendance has fallen in several schools this week, officials say.
District 55 Supt. Larry Horton said Tuesday morning that more than 20 percent of students at Foster, Hawthorne,
Crawfordsville and Sweet Home Junior High were absent Monday.
If that absentee rate were to continue through Wednesday, the county Health Department “would send someone out to talk about it.”