Petersburg Pilot -

Following a 26-year teaching career with the Petersburg School District, Ginger Evens turned in her keys to Petersburg High School on Tuesday, which marked the official start of her retirement.

Evens, 49, first joined the school district in the fall of 1995, teaching geography and language arts at Mitkof Middle School. Eleven years later, she made the transition to the high school, but she did it alongside the class of 2010. Evens said it was a unique experience to be able to watch that class enter middle school and continue teaching them in high school.

"The relationships I developed wit...