About 150 Lanier Middle School eighth grade Purple Pups spent a week this summer preparing for their roles as leaders of homeroom teams when school reconvenes Aug. 25. Supervised by teacher ...

Lanier Middle School will be 75 years old next ... who attended Lanier the year it opened and drew the first version of the school's "Purple Pup" mascot, said the school has a culture of reaching ...

A geographic solution - Montrose Middle School - may be too simple to ... deferring to the school's last name. If Lanier has to go, Purple Pups should go with it, they argue.

Also on the list were middle schools named after ... (Though some do long for the school to do away with its less-than-ferocious team name, the Purple Pups.) Here’s the thing.

At a town hall meeting, Lanier Middle School students wearing their purple uniforms recounted that history Wednesday night in front of more than 100 people in the school auditorium. Reading from ...