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Lake Superior School Board Looks Toward the Start of a New School Year
As the start of the school year approaches, the Lake Superior School Board has been working to bring added support to address the academic, emotional and social needs of LSSD students. Pam Carlson has taken the position as Literacy Lead and will be working in all district schools to support students and teachers and boost literacy skills under the guidelines of the READ Act. The overarching goal of the READ Act is to give students the support they need to develop the necessary skills that will enable them to read at or above grade level as they navigate through their school years. Carlson will be overseeing training for teachers, as required by the READ Act and will be helping teachers plan instruction and track improvements in student reading abilities at the classroom level.
Thunderhawks Cross Country Season Preview
Brenden Sylvester returns after his state tournament appearance in 2023. Sylvester saved his best for last, when the lights were the brightest, turning in a personal record of 17:05 in the MSHSL AA State Championship 5000 meter race as a sophomore - 65th overall of 159 entries. Katelyn Carlson, an eighth-grade phenom, returns to varsity after a MSHSL AA State Tournament appearance as well - as a seventh-grader. Not to be outdone by Sylvester, Carlson also recorded her personal record time in the 5000 meters last season in the most important race of her life, finishing 58th overall out of 160 runners with a time of 19:59.3. You can expect more championship level running out of this pair once again this year. The Thunderhawks cross country team is coached by Steve Kohorst and Patty CarlinJanssen, and will hit the ground running next Wednesday against Virginia, at Virginia Golf Course.
Rochester School District Gets Grant to Help Students Experiencing Homelessness
Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News)- The Rochester School District (RPS) is among the 22 districts across the state receiving grant dollars to help students experiencing homelessness. The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) announced earlier this week that it had received a $1 million federal competitive grant. The money was allocated through...
Hall of Famer Rod Carew adds a new title: U.S. citizen
SANTA ANA, Calif. — He's one of the greatest baseball players ever to play America's pastime. Now, at age 78, former Minnesota Twins star Rod Carew is officially an American citizen. The legendary baseball Hall of Famer took the Oath of Allegiance on Friday from the director of the...
FBI has less than a week to meet James Comer's deadline related to Tim Walz alleged China 'connections'
The FBI now has less than a week to meet House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer's hard deadline and hand documents related to what he has described as Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's "longstanding connection" to China and its government. On August 17, the committee formally requested...
Mayo program combines training, field experience in hopes to alleviate shortage
As Minnesota searches for answers to the current EMT shortage, a Mayo Clinic Ambulance Service program is well on its way in helping fill those vital positions. Launched earlier this summer, the EMT-in-Training Program aims to combine both training and field experience to create a home-grown talent initiative that will contribute almost immediately. The first […] The post Mayo program combines training, field experience in hopes to alleviate shortage appeared first on Albert Lea Tribune.
“Autism Mom” will lead State Fair craft-making activity to create “an army of advocates” for kids on the spectrum
On Sunday August 25 from 10 am to noon, Sheletta Brundidge is inviting all Minnesota families to join her family at the Alphabet Forest in Baldwin Park on the State Fairgrounds.
Inflation Reduction Act creates thousands of union jobs in Minnesota — and other labor news
Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: the Inflation Reduction Act’s impact on jobs two years on; what to make of the jobs numbers revision; Minnesota is No. 1 state for nurses; Kim’s will shutter shortly after union vote; and Canadian railway workers […]
AOC: Tim Walz’s Non-Weird Masculinity Is Driving Trump, Vance “Nuts”
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Stephen Colbert on Thursday that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is driving Donald Trump and J.D. Vance “nuts.” “I think that Trump and Vance, they think they have some kind of like, monopoly over masculinity,” Ocasio-Cortez said on The Late Show. The Republican nominees have been freaking out ever since Walz first called them “weird” a few weeks ago, and have responded by desperately attacking the Minnesota governor’s son, wife, military history, and governing record. “Walz has kinda shown up—he’s a football coach, he was the head of the gay-straight alliance as the football coach,” Ocasio-Cortez...
Perplexing pickleball vandalism will cost district thousands to repair
GRAND RAPIDS — A baffling act of vandalism on Grand Rapids School District grounds has the tennis program in a bit of a pickle. Superintendent Matt Grose said it started in late July when a buildings and grounds employee asked if anyone in the district had okayed the painting of a pickleball court on the tennis courts.
The old and the new
A couple of weeks ago, the Leech Lake Regatta sailed by our house for the 53rd time. Wow! Just think — 53 years. It is one of the oldest community celebrations on the lake. In 1971, John Elsenpeter was president of the Leech Lake Chamber of Commerce and he thought it would be a good idea to have a sailboat race on Leech Lake. John, however, was known as the president of the First National Bank in Walker — not as a sailor. So, he...
Wisconsin Goodwill Stores Will NOT Accept These 50 Items
Are you doing some fall cleaning before winter hits? I know I have been doing so and that comes with a lot of purging and donating. To be honest, I thought that stores like Goodwill accepted anything and everything but I recently learned that wasn't true!. That's why, if you're...
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