'There is no other Damon': After 41 years, Damon Bartscher to bid farewell to Longfellow Elementary

'There is no other Damon': After 41 years, Damon Bartscher to bid farewell to Longfellow Elementary

MITCHELL — As a custodian with four decades logged at Longfellow Elementary School in Mitchell, Damon Bartscher has tidied up after countless lunch hours in the cafeteria, polished miles of floor in the hallways and straightened up after hundreds of students and staff Halloween parties. Next week, when Oct. 31 rolls around, Bartscher will clean up after his last Halloween party as the longtime school employee calls it a career. The 66-year-old M…