SCHOOLS
Schools, county gear up for flu 
The first day of school may still be a couple weeks away, but now is the time for prepare for what could be a very hectic flu season.
By Courtney Sinner , August 26, 2009
Keeping Washington School alive
Former staff members meet for breakfast each year to catch upAlthough no one seems to be quite sure how long they’ve been meeting, the staff from Washington School in Detroit Lakes enjoys the once-a-year breakfasts regardless.
By Pippi Mayfield , July 31, 2009
Detroit Lakes High School senior tests out political waters through Stanford summer program
Earlier this summer, Tanner Yocom, soon to enter his senior year at Detroit Lakes High School, participated in a program that will undoubtedly aid him in his endeavors to attend law school and eventually become a politician.
By Thressa Johnson , July 31, 2009
Rotary sends seven to camp
The Detroit Lakes Breakfast Rotary Club sponsored Hannah Daggett, Alex Guetter, Kathryn Schumacher and Katelyn Furey, and the Detroit Lakes Noon Rotary Club sponsored Cara Berger, Melissa Brown and Dylan Stender during the Rotary Youth Leadership Award Camp.
July 31, 2009
Frazee school board tries to mend fences
The old needs to realize they are now new. That’s the idea the Frazee-Vergas School Board has learned about itself after a board development survey results were reviewed.
By Pippi Mayfield , July 15, 2009
Detroit Lakes High School Honor Roll
Detroit Lakes High School released its fourth-quarter honor roll.
June 15, 2009
Former students say farewell to Dent school
"Don’t dwell on how the Dent school ended; remember how it lived--because it really did live.” That’s how Dan Nodsle, Dent resident and former Perham-Dent School Board member, bid farewell to a special school where both of his boys attended.
By Louis Hoglund , June 05, 2009
High school students get leg up on college
Jamie Johnson, a 2009 Frazee graduate, knew a few years ago that she wanted to go to a four-year college and eventually get a Ph.D. in psychology.
By Courtney Sinner , May 29, 2009
Dent school prepares to close
A big, farewell hug will be given to the Dent Elementary School May 27, as the building will be closed as a school after this year.
By Louis Hoglund , May 27, 2009
Moorhead math teacher's contributions add up
Horizon's Ken Welken retiring after 40 yearsIn his signature unassuming way, Ken Welken has cheered on a cross section of Moorhead middle-schoolers in his 40 years of teaching math.
By Mila Koumpilova , May 26, 2009
Waubun-Ogema-White Earth teachers receive special master's degrees
In a special graduation ceremony May 15 in Waubun, a group of elementary and high school teachers is graduating from college after a 3-year specialized course in their small town.
By Stephanie Goetz , May 22, 2009
Nova Scotia expedition: Bemidji teachers survey mammals
From Nova Scotia’s ocean-lined coast to its lake-dotted, wooded interior, two Bemidji teachers surveyed mammals in the Canadian province.
By Michelle Bedard , May 20, 2009
West Fargo students may still get to visit France for school trip
West Fargo French students who had been planning a trip to France – then found out the money they had been saving for the trip was lost in a bankruptcy filing – may be getting their trip anyway.
By WDAY Radio News , May 18, 2009
Letting it fly at Rossman
Fifth grade students launch marshmallows, learn physicsSounds of sawing wood, hammering nails and retracting tape measurers emanated from Rian Heimark’s classroom Wednesday, and it wasn’t a middle-school woodshop lesson — these fifth graders were building catapults as part of their physics lesson.
By Courtney Sinner , May 16, 2009
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