education

“4-H really emphasizes being a good sport, learning and improving, no matter what color ribbon you get,” said Janessa Palmer, a St. John’s Road Runners 4-H Club member. In her seven years of 4-H, she said sportsmanship was the most important skill she learned. Janessa Palmer...

Kristen Egge can tell in September whether her students were engaged in academic activities during their summer break. “Kids need to read and write and do a little bit of math every day,” said Egge, a fifth-grade teacher at Roosevelt Elementary School in Willmar. The Willmar...

WILLMAR — Zeinab Igale and Rosa Cisneros were pretty sure that the black can sitting in front of the spotlight was going to get warmer inside than the silver can next to it; Blake Dotson thought it just might be the silver can. The sixth-graders at Willmar Middle School watched...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Fire burned into the early hours of Wednesday morning after a Canadian National Railway train carrying propane and crude oil derailed in New Brunswick, Canada, according to a report from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The broadcaster reached Tim Corbin,...

WILLMAR - Willmar Middle School has a program that hopes to catch kids before they fall through the cracks and head toward dropping out of school....

RAYMOND — Marriage to Shaun Shubert brought Shelly from the West Coast to Maynard, while a job in Willmar and a house to make their home brought Jennifer and Jason Burnett from Chicago to Raymond. Parents of elementary school-aged children, they love living in towns where they...