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Orono speech team boasts middle school national champ
Oliver Berg, a seventh-grader from Orono’s Speech Team, was crowned Middle School National Champion in Storytelling at the National Speech and Debate Association’s 2024 National Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa. Berg, a student at Delano Middle School, competes on the Orono team as a result of a cooperative agreement between the Orono and Delano school districts which allows Delano students in grades 7-12 to compete on the Orono Speech team, since Delano does not have a speech program. Berg had a stellar first season, placing 8th in the State tournament in Creative Expression this season. Berg is Orono’s second Middle School National Champion in Storytelling in the last three years; Maya Haugen won that title in 2022. Also competing at Nationals were Madeleine Dore in Humorous Interpretation, McKenna Monger in Dramatic Interpretation, and Maya Haugen in Storytelling, a supplemental category. Both Monger and Haugen broke to Octafinals.
Alleged incident sparks conflict at Robbinsdale Schools meeting
Once again, the Robbinsdale Area Schools Board of Directors spent a chunk of its meeting discussing how members talk to each other. At the July 8 board meeting, Director Kim Holmes brought copies of a June 22 Facebook post published by Director Helen Bassett on her public page. Bassett’s post described an alleged incident at an unspecified board meeting. Bassett also shared the post on the MN School Board Directors...
Armstrong Legion beats Brooklyn Park in close game
The Brooklyn Park Post 630 and Armstrong Post 251 Legion baseball teams met July 9 at Park Center High School in an eventual 6-4 win for the Falcons. The game was part of the penultimate week of North Hennepin Legion action. Tuesday’s action began in Brooklyn Park’s favor. Maranatha Christian Academy’s Otto Arlt was a reliable force at first base, getting two tags before Justin Walters earned a kill to cap off a good start on the mound. Now at bat, Brooklyn Park loaded the...
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