education

93 Lincoln seniors graduate Sunday

May 31, 2018
Commencement exercises for 93 Lincoln High School seniors will be Sunday, June 3, at 2 p.m. in the Lincoln High School gymnasium. “They are a very kind and talented class, but also pretty laid back,” Lincoln High School Principal Greg Berge wrote about the class in an email. “They have been good...

School bus routes go high tech

May 16, 2018
Routing for local school buses in the Lake City School District is going high tech. Since 1995, Doug and Cara Grisim of Bluff Country School Bus have used a simple method of routing students. In doing so, they have used updated county mapping, physically driving the miles to make routing changes...

New greenhouse boosts education, local food

Apr 18, 2018
Outside it was overcast and a bit gloomy April 11, but it was a beautiful spring day inside Lincoln High School’s new greenhouse where flowers for the FFA’s upcoming plant sale were in bloom. The school district was holding an open house for the year-round facility constructed between the tennis...

150 Lincoln High School students join walk-out

Mar 21, 2018
About 150 Lincoln High School students, mostly seventh and ninth graders, participated in a 17-minute walkout on March in support of stricter gun laws after 17 people were killed in a Parkland, Fla., high school in a mass shooting on Feb. 14. “We had students who chose to do this go to the...

Young musicians attend jazz festival

Mar 7, 2018
Lake City Jazz students participated in the Minnesota Band Directors Association mid-level Honors Jazz concert on Saturday, March 3, at Lakeville South High School. The students studied a set of music in advance and then met with Jazz students from 16 different schools to form two honors bands...

Kiwanians welcome
 students of the month

Feb 28, 2018
Lincoln High School students Jessica Wiuff and Doris Calic are the Lake City Kiwanis Club’s students of the month for February. They were nominated by the Lincoln High School social studies department.­

School wins learning grant in drawing

Feb 28, 2018
Lake City School Board member Becca Weist entered and won a drawing on the district’s behalf for a $750 learning grant from Kraus-Anderson, the firm managing the district’s Bluff View Elementary School expansion. Gary Benson (right) of Kraus-Anderson brought a check and certificate with him when he...

District finds that the time is right for school bonds

Feb 28, 2018
The Lake City School Board got a virtual tour of the Bluff View Elementary school expansion project Monday, Feb. 26, and some good news about project financing. The tour came in the form of three pre-rendered videos displaying a first-person walkthrough of the interior and exterior changes coming...

Watercolor class openings still available

Feb 28, 2018
Registration is under way for spring watercolor classes at the Lake City Area Arts (LCAA) center, 220 East Chestnut Street. Classes will be held on consecutive Tuesdays: March 6, 13, 27, and April 3 and 10. The evening session is full, but openings are available in the afternoon session from 2...

Nafe 
qualifies as alternate 
for regional 
finals

Feb 21, 2018
Eighth grader Joey Nafe finished seventh at the Spelling Bee Regional Semifinals in Rochester Feb. 13. Joey is the alternate for the Feb. 27 Spelling Bee Regional Final in Rochester. The winner on the Feb. 27 is granted a trip to Washington, D.C. for the Scripps Spelling Bee National Finals.


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