How about them apples?

The gifting of an apple to a teacher is one ingrained into popular culture, a tradition carried from the Old World to the American Frontier with apples serving as a symbol of knowledge and wisdom.

While teachers may not receive apples from their students anymore, the Platte Valley Legacy Foundation hands out crystal apples each year. This year, they awarded two of them on November 21 at the Hotel Wolf in Saratoga.

“The Platte Legacy Committee (Foundation) has chosen teachers they felt gave above and beyond just their job,” said Cheryl Munroe, board member of the Platte Valley Legacy Foundation...