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Monday send-off for presidential turkeys planned

WILLMAR -- The official send-off for the Kandiyohi County turkeys bound for the White House to be pardoned before Thanksgiving is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday at the Willmar Senior...

news / business / education Fri, Nov 18, 2011 - 12:00am

Fund balance should help Willmar, Minn., School District get through financial uncertainty

WILLMAR -- The Willmar School District ended the past fiscal year with a fund balance of $5.9 million, more than 14 percent of its annual operating expenses, an auditor told...

news / education / business Thu, Nov 17, 2011 - 12:00am

Willmar, Minn., school board meeting closure violated open law procedure

WILLMAR -- The Willmar School Board may have used the proper statute to close a meeting to the public Monday, but it didn't follow the procedures spelled out in the...

news / education Wed, Nov 16, 2011 - 12:00am

Willmar, Minn., School Board moves to end contract of volleyball coach

WILLMAR -- The Willmar School Board voted not to renew the contract of varsity volleyball coach Terrin DeBoer Monday. The board closed its meeting for about 45 minutes before adopting...

news / education / sports Tue, Nov 15, 2011 - 12:00am

Students show their illuminated hands Monday while standing iside Germ City, light-tight canvas enclosure illuminated only with black lights. Tribune photo by Gary Miller

Willmar, Minn., students get firsthand look at combatting germs

WILLMAR -- Hand washing is something children learn at an early age. How good a job they do was the reason for Germ City's visit Monday to Kennedy Elementary School...

news / education Tue, Nov 15, 2011 - 12:00am

Willmar, Minn., School Board meets Monday

WILLMAR -- The Willmar School Board will meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday in the board room on the first floor of the Willmar Education and Arts Center, 611 Fifth St...

news / local / education Sun, Nov 13, 2011 - 8:00am

Mandy Adamini shows some of the balls that are used to help autistic elementary students with their large muscle skills at the Cosmos Learning Center.
(Tribune photo by Carolyn Lange)

Regional autism program expands services in Cosmos, Minn.

An autism program operating in Cosmos that had primarily focused on teaching older students up to age 21 has now been expanded to include kindergarten and elementary-aged students. The expanded...

extra / news / region / education Sat, Nov 12, 2011 - 2:53am

Sign-up ends Nov. 18 for WCER MBB, volleyball

The WCER men's volleyball and men's basketball registration deadline is Nov. 18. The entry fee is $350 for basketball with leagues being offered on Monday and Wednesday nights. The Men's...

sports / community / education Sat, Nov 12, 2011 - 12:39am

Programs help ease burden of paying for training in health careers

WILLMAR -- When Dr. Paul Schulz meets each year with first-year students at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, he tells them: You've chosen a good career path; now...

news / local / education Sat, Nov 12, 2011 - 12:00am

Pvt. Mimi Castro, left, eats lunch Friday with family member Seth Wolf during the Veterans Day lunch with a veteran at Roosevelt Elementary School in Willmar. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Willmar, Minn., students have lunch with veterans to mark holiday

WILLMAR -- Willmar's elementary schools continued their tradition of honoring veterans this year. Students at Kennedy and Roosevelt schools ate lunch with veterans Thursday and Friday.

news / local / education Sat, Nov 12, 2011 - 12:00am

Chinese language teacher Tang Beiyi talks during an interview Friday about some of the things she has learned from teaching in the language program at the Willmar Senior High School. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

English teacher from China impressed by her Willmar, Minn., students

WILLMAR -- Tang Beiyi has found students at Willmar Senior High to be active and eager to participate in class activities. The English teacher from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan...

news / local / education Sat, Nov 12, 2011 - 12:00am

ACGC North Elementary third-grade students Hannah Morrison, left, and Lilly Wattnem get their first look Friday at their dictionaries as Litchfield Rotary member Steve Kess watches in their classroom in Atwater. Members of the Litchfield Rotary Club gave dictionaries to all of the third-grade students in the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City District, also visiting ACGC South in Cosmos on Friday. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Dictionaries distributed at elementary schools in Cosmos, Atwater, Minn.

news / region / education Sat, Nov 12, 2011 - 12:00am

Dean Madsen of the Kandiyohi County YMCA speaks to a group Thursday about healthy lifestyles and exercise during a workshop at the Transitions Fair at Evangelical Free Church in Willmar. The event gave area students tips on life skills like banking, fast food industry, dealing with landlords and interviewing for jobs. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Willmar, Minn.-area students with disabilities get tips on how to prepare for the adult world

WILLMAR -- About 70 students from six area school districts got tips on life skills such as dealing with banking, insurance and landlords and interviewing for jobs during a daylong...

news / education Fri, Nov 11, 2011 - 12:00am

Lac qui Parle Valley school bus driver and passenger suffer minor injuries in Swift County accident, 9 other students unharmed

News Region appleton holloway lac qui parle valley high school education accident MADISON -- A school bus driver and a 17-year-old student suffered minor injuries while nine other students escaped...

news / region / education Wed, Nov 09, 2011 - 12:58pm

Central Minn.'s Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart elects school board members

WILLMAR -- Voters in the Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart School District elected three members, Allen W. Schmidt, Lisa M. Taylor and Laura Girodat, to their school board in Tuesday's election. According to...

news / region / education Wed, Nov 09, 2011 - 12:21pm

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