It’s homecoming week for Greene County High School.

Principal Brian Phillips reminds students to be safe and responsible during homecoming.

“First and foremost is safety of the kids. When it’s nighttime and they are jumping into vehicles and running around, we get nervous about kids getting possibly hurt. The other part is the teepeeing. Ideally, they should have permission from teachers or whoever they are going to try to teepee. But we don’t want to go overboard where people really start to get annoyed because they have been teepeed three, four or five times and then it just becomes too much.”

Jefferson Police Chief Mark Clouse echoes Phillips’ comments about being respectful to those individuals who don’t want to participate in the homecoming tradition of having their property teepeed.

“If you know that someone is not wishing to participate in that type of behavior, or an officer tells you, ‘Don’t come back here, these folks don’t want to participate.’ Please honor that. We want you to go out, we want you to have fun, we want you to continue the traditions (and) we want to have a great week and go into a victory Friday night with Boone.”

Phillips says if a situation goes too far, possible cancellations of homecoming activities may happen, but he doesn’t want anything to get to that point.