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NLS issues cabling bid and wiring for all sites

NEW LONDON -- The New London-Spicer School board approved a $163,038 bid from All State Communication of Sauk Rapids to upgrade networking cable in the district's school buildings this summer...

news / local / education Thu, May 17, 2012 - 12:00am

Willmar, Minn., School Board OKs new teacher contract with longer workdays

WILLMAR -- Teachers in the Willmar School District will be working longer days next year, and they'll receive a raise to pay for their extra time. School administrators hope that...

news / education Tue, May 15, 2012 - 12:00am

Representatives from each graduating class from Cosmos High School releases a balloon Saturday during an event honoring the school and its nearly 60 years of service to the Cosmos community. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Gratitude for time spent in Cosmos, Minn., a common theme at school's farewell

COSMOS -- Former students, teachers and parents gathered Saturday in the Cosmos school gym where basketball games were played and homecoming queens crowned to reminisce about their years as the...

news / region / education Mon, May 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Willmar, Minn., School Board to meet Monday afternoon

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 Street...

news / local / education Sat, May 12, 2012 - 8:00am

Arthur Godert, 9, left, watches Friday as David Wilson takes a reading using a secchi tube held by Katherine Pekarek-Scott of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency during a watershed program at Kennedy Elementary School in Willmar. A secchi tube is used to estimate stream quality as it relates to solids in the water. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Watershed program presented

news / local / education Sat, May 12, 2012 - 12:00am

Rahla Salah, left, visits Wednesday with Karen Raske at Willmar Library. Salah was one of twelve interpreters who completed 40 hours of professional interpreting training. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Somali community honors a dozen new certified interpreters in Willmar, Minn.

WILLMAR -- The Willmar area has a dozen new certified Somali language interpreters, something that pleases the elders in the Somali community. The five women and seven men completed 40...

news / local / education / Ridgewater Thu, May 10, 2012 - 12:00am

Viviana Iverson, from left, Tanja Joergensen, Pia Eknes and Pernille Broberg share a moment May 3 with Echo, a golden Labrador. The four, who are from Denmark, were discussing their experiences in the vet tech program at Ridgewater College in Willmar. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Danish students study at Ridgewater College in Willmar, Minn., during exchange program

WILLMAR -- Eight students from Hansenberg College in Denmark just spent two weeks in the veterinary technology program at Ridgewater College in Willmar, part of an exchange program that has...

news / local / education / Ridgewater Thu, May 10, 2012 - 12:00am

Kindergarten teacher Micah Tolzin, center, who teaches at ACGC North in Atwater, helps Shelby Crusoe, a student at ACGC South in Cosmos, left, and Levi Nelson, who attends ACGC North during class Tuesday in Atwater. Students from both schools spent the day together at ACGC North, where all K-4 grade students will attend school next year. Tribune photo by Carolyn Lange

ACGC elementary students spend the day at what will become their new school

ATWATER -- The elementary students from Cosmos may have been just a little timid when they got off the bus Tuesday morning in Atwater. But when they saw the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove...

news / local / education / business Wed, May 09, 2012 - 12:00am

Willmar students are just beginning their ascent in this photo taken at the Great Wall in China. They all made it to the top of this most famous section of the Great Wall in an area called Ba Daling. Photo submitted by Todd Lynum

Willmar language students' spring trips: In Spain, riots; in China, climbing the Great Wall

WILLMAR -- A little education in European economics and politics greeted 27 Willmar students who went to Spain on their spring break trip this year. A general transportation strike and...

news / local / education Mon, May 07, 2012 - 8:00am

Students Ryan Cornelius, from left, Daniel Roker and Broderick Prokosch take part in the battle re-enactment during a Cinco de Mayo celebration Friday at BOLD High School in Olivia. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

BOLD's Cinco de Mayo celebration is the best of both worlds

OLIVIA -- Against all odds, a Mexican army repelled a far larger French force in the 1862 Battle of Pueblo and set the stage for what today is a celebration...

news / region / education Sat, May 05, 2012 - 12:00am

School Board puts six NLS, Minn., teachers on leave, as budget cuts continue

NEW LONDON -- The New London-Spicer School Board approved resolutions Monday to put four tenured teachers on unrequested leave and terminating the contracts for two probationary teachers. The tenured teachers...

news / local / education / business Tue, May 01, 2012 - 12:00am

Ridgewater College professor Shawn Mueske is pictured in his office on the Willmar campus. Mueske is one of four Minnesota educators recently honored by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees as an educator of the year. "I get very good students; I would call them exceptional," Mueske, a biology instructor, said in his office last week, where his award, top, was on display. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Willmar, Minn., educator's high expectations pay dividends

WILLMAR -- If the students in Shawn Mueske's biology classes are studying about fingerprints, shoeprints, blood typing, throat cultures or bacteria in food, he uses samples from students and gets...

news / local / education Mon, Apr 30, 2012 - 12:00am

Ridgewater College is eligible to compete with other U.S. colleges for a $1 million 2013 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence after being chosen as one of the top 120 community colleges in the nation. Courtesy photo

Ridgewater College in Willmar, Minn., among top community colleges

WILLMAR -- Ridgewater College has been chosen as one of the top 120 community colleges in the nation by the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program. The selection makes the college...

news / local / education / Ridgewater Fri, Apr 27, 2012 - 12:00am

Ridgewater College picked in top 120 community colleges in nation, to compete for $1 million prize

WILLMAR -- Ridgewater College has been chosen as one of the top 120 community colleges in the nation by the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program. The selection makes the college...

news / local / education / Ridgewater Thu, Apr 26, 2012 - 10:46am

New federal law will change school lunches for next school year

WILLMAR -- A new federal law will require adjustments in school lunch programs locally, and Willmar School Board members fear it could lead to more food waste. Board members discussed...

news / local / education Thu, Apr 26, 2012 - 12:00am

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