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Kindergarten roundup registration to begin at HOTL

Heart of the Lakes Elementary School's annual Kindergarten Roundup is set to begin. Kindergarten registration packets were mailed out this week for potential Heart of the Lakes students. Those who...

news / education Thu, Feb 28, 2013 - 2:54pm

Superintendent Todd Cameron accepts a check for $600 from a Viking Coca-Cola rep.

NYM School receives $600 donation

New York Mills School District received a check for more than $600 for participating in the "Powerade 4 Schools" program through Viking Coca-Cola Bottling Company. "The program's goal is to...

news / education Thu, Feb 28, 2013 - 2:46pm

St. Paul's students participate in Bible bowl

Students from St. Paul's Lutheran School recently participated in the Minnesota North Lutheran School Bible Bowl. Participating from St. Paul's were: Fourth grade -- Elayna Kawlewski, Sadie Bjorklund and Trey...

education Thu, Feb 28, 2013 - 2:37pm

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Lance Rach

Rach in semifinals for MN Teacher of the Year award

Heart of the Lakes Elementary School teacher Lance Rach was recently chosen as one of 39 semifinalists eligible for the Minnesota Teacher of the Year award. A panel of 25...

news / education Thu, Feb 28, 2013 - 2:28pm

No changes made to NYM School Board seats

As of Monday night's New York Mills School Board meeting, longtime board member Rachel Grieger was still chairperson despite repeated attempts by other board members to discuss reorganization. In three...

news / education Thu, Feb 28, 2013 - 2:27pm

School district posturing for cuts

The Perham School Board is preparing to trim as much as $500,000 from the district's budget next year in order to keep a healthy fund balance in place. That amount...

news / education Thu, Feb 28, 2013 - 2:21pm

A trip worth crooning about: Perham High School Choir performs at Carnegie Hall

Twenty-two members of the Perham High School choir sang in the Big Apple last week, including two planned performances at popular New York City landmarks as well as impromptu shows...

entertainment / news / education / events Thu, Feb 28, 2013 - 2:15pm

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At top is SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, which Huwe helped design parts for, grappled by the International Space Station's Canadarm2 on Oct. 10, 2012.

Reaching for the stars; Perham grad launches a career in rockets

Ethan Huwe has launched a career that's out of this world. The 2006 Perham High School graduate went on to attend MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and now works for...

news / education Thu, Feb 28, 2013 - 1:02pm

NYM School Board 'serial meetings' firmly denied; Letter explained in prepared statement; Superintendent search to move forward

New York Mills School Board members are addressing concerns of alleged serial meetings and possible decisions made in the past without full board knowledge. These issues came to light in...

news / education Wed, Feb 27, 2013 - 5:04pm

Bemidji bus driver resigns after forcing child to walk home in freezing temps

news / education Wed, Feb 27, 2013 - 12:10pm

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to speak at Concordia

MOORHEAD - Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates will speak at Concordia College in April, President William Craft announced Wednesday. Gates will speak on April 27 as part of the...

business / news / education Wed, Feb 27, 2013 - 12:07pm

Perham talent show sign-up

Do you sing? Dance? Tell funny stories? No matter what your talent is, the time is now to sign up for the 2013 Interact Community Talent Show. Those interested may...

entertainment / education Thu, Feb 21, 2013 - 5:53pm

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St. Henry's Area School second graders Trinity Covington, who took second place, and Molly Pearson, who took first, in the 2012 Fall Americanism Contest sponsored by the local VFW Ladies Auxiliary.

Fall Americanism Contest results

More than 100 students from Heart of the Lakes Elementary, St. Henry's Catholic and St. Paul's Lutheran schools in Perham participated in a Fall Americanism Contest. The contest was sponsored...

news / education Thu, Feb 21, 2013 - 5:00pm

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The Perham Yellowjacket Speech Team, at a recent meet in Staples.

Speech team takes second

The Yellowjacket Speech team took second out of 11 teams at a tournament in Staples on Saturday. The Yellowjackets competed with just half their team members due to illness and...

news / education Thu, Feb 21, 2013 - 4:57pm

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100 days of school

Heart of the Lakes Elementary School in Perham celebrated 100 days of school last Thursday. All the first grade students, along with a handful of adults, formed the number 100...

news / education Thu, Feb 21, 2013 - 4:35pm

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