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Bill Woods, front, and Mike Frank load books and other supplies Friday onto a trailer to carry from Lincoln Elementary School in Willmar. All but a few classrooms at Lincoln will close next school year and the building will be closed for good once new rooms are added to Roosevelt Elementary School. Jefferson Elementary School will become the base for Willmar Community Education and Recreation. The moving process has been ongoing for the past month, Woods said. The effort is ...

news / local Sat, Jun 06, 2009 - 12:00am

Lincoln Elementary School teacher Joan Kuhn was one of a group of teachers who gathered Tuesday to reminisce about their years working at the Willmar school. Thursday was the last day for the teachers, as the school will close this year as part of the district's budget-cutting moves. Kuhn, a longtime kindergarten teacher, will retire next week. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Teachers reminisce about their time spent at soon-to-close Lincoln Elementary School

They laughed as they told stories about teachers and principals they knew and about all the students they'd known over the years. But when they thought about Thursday, the last...

news / local Sat, Jun 06, 2009 - 12:00am

Taylor Lara, left, gets her Memory Book signed by Karen Loge on Thursday at Jefferson Elementary School. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Elementary schools see last students leave

WILLMAR -- There was chaos in the halls of Willmar's small elementary schools Thursday afternoon. It was the annual memory book signing at Lincoln and Jefferson elementary schools. And it...

news / local Fri, Jun 05, 2009 - 12:00am

Willmar may build addition to Roosevelt

WILLMAR -- The problem of how to reorganize the elementary schools in Willmar might be solved by adding on a half dozen rooms to one of the schools. The Willmar...

news / local / news Tue, Feb 24, 2009 - 12:00am

Sam Oehrlein, 8, of Willmar constructs a Lego creation at the Lego Mania, an event held Thursday at Lincoln Elementary School in Willmar. The event is one of several different activities sponsored by Cardinal Place through April. Tribune photoby Ron Adams

news / news Fri, Feb 20, 2009 - 12:00am

Physical education teacher, Larry Selchow, makes his final appearance as Zero the Hero Monday in Kris Egge's Lincoln Elementary School kindergarten room to celebrate 100 days in school. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Zorro-like character helps kindergartners learn to count

WILLMAR -- Zero the Hero made his final appearance at the Lincoln Elementary School kindergarten rooms Monday afternoon, to celebrate 100 days in school. The Zorro-like character, in black hat,...

news / local / news Tue, Feb 17, 2009 - 12:00am

Editorial: Lessons of Lincoln still hold true today

Two hundred years this week, the babe Abraham Lincoln was born in a simple log cabin in the frontier state of Kentucky. Much has changed since that day. As a...

opinion Fri, Feb 13, 2009 - 1:00am

Commentary: A snapshot of Lincoln 200 years after birth

It is one of my duties as Minnesota's commissioner on the national Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission to outline the president's impact upon Minnesota. It is appropriate to highlight Lincoln and...

commentary / opinion Tue, Feb 10, 2009 - 12:00am

Willmar school officials proposed closing two schools, realigning grades in four others

WILLMAR -- Closing buildings, moving programs and grades to other schools and increasing caseloads in special education programs are all on the list of possible budget cuts for the Will-mar...

news / local / education Tue, Jan 27, 2009 - 12:00am

McGovern pens book on Abraham Lincoln

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) - George McGovern put the library bearing his name at alma mater Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell to good use for his most recent project, a book...

news / nation Mon, Jan 12, 2009 - 6:00am

Jenissa Acosta, 8, of Willmar, left, and Theresa Wittenberg read Wednesday at the Lincoln Elementary School in Willmar. Wittenberg, executive director of the local YMCA, is one of the volunteers paired with students through Rotary Readers. (Tribune photo by Bill Zimmer)

Reading buddy program has grown but more volunteers would be welcome

WILLMAR -- Jenissa Acosta and Theresa Wittenberg finished reading a book about frogs and moved on to Dr.

local / education Fri, Nov 28, 2008 - 12:00am

Willmar Public Schools Foundation OKs grants for literacy programs at Kennedy and junior high

WILLMAR -- The Willmar Public Schools Foundation has agreed to help fund two literacy programs in Willmar schools. The board met Wednesday and approved a $1,000 grant for the Accelerated...

local / education Thu, Oct 09, 2008 - 12:00am

Volleyball: MACCRAY sweeps past TMB

CLARA CITY -- Danelle Loomis served five aces and delivered 25 set assists to spark the MACCRAY Wolverines to a 25-19, 25-13, 25-18 win over the Tracy-Milroy-Balaton Panthers in the...

sports Wed, Sep 03, 2008 - 12:00am

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