education

Pigging out on pancakes at a special ECFE event

Nov 8, 2018

“If you give a pig a pancake, he’ll surely want syrup on it!” Parents and children participated in activities based on the book, “If You Give a Pig a Pancake” by Laura Numeroff, during an Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) special class Saturday, Nov. 3. ECFE is a program for parents and...

Gym and cafeteria take shape

Nov 1, 2018

A crane at Bluff View Elementary School lowers a section of pre-cast concrete into place. The concrete will form the walls of the school’s new gymnasium and performance space, part of a $12 million renovation and expansion project approved by voters last November. Hidden behind the walls are the...

A semester afloat

Sep 26, 2018

Two professors, two wilderness guides, and 14 Augsburg College students spending 100 days on the Mississippi River camped at Hok-Si-La Park in Lake City earlier this month. The students are making the canoe journey to New Orleans while taking a full course load at the Minneapolis college. Not long...

Shock and frustration follow schoolhouse vandalism

Sep 26, 2018

Connie and Richard Schumann were taking some friends on a tour of the countryside last Friday when they made an unpleasant discovery. Vandals had smashed windows and scribbled graffiti in an old one-room school building they own and have worked to preserve over the years. Wheelan School, Wabasha...

First day an adjustment

Sep 5, 2018

A new student drop-off and pick-up lent even more newness to a day filled with new teachers, classmates, and students at Bluff View Elementary on the first day of the new school year, Sept. 4. The school is in the midst of a $12 million renovation project that will add classrooms, a cafeteria, and...

St. John’s looks forward to a new school year

Aug 22, 2018

Teachers have been busy preparing for the start of school at St. John’s Lutheran Elementary School. This year’s theme is “It All Began with God,” based on 1 Peter 3:15. In addition to attending continuing education classes, CPR and First Aid classes, teachers from the staff at St. John’s have...

Teacher experiences geology first-hand

Aug 15, 2018

This year, Lincoln High School science teacher Anna Karsten was one of the 36 educators participating in G-Camp for Teachers, which takes 36 fifth through 12th grade teachers on a three-week field trip through the Southwest U.S. The group explored the features of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison...

Section of Cross Street becomes one-way

Aug 8, 2018

Traffic patterns around Bluff View Elementary School have changed. Construction on a $12 million expansion and renovation project will continue through the 2018-2019 school year, impacting parking and building access at the school. To help manage traffic in and out of the building during the...

Next Bluff View reading night features pets and pajamas

Jul 12, 2018

Pets are often considered part of the family and organizers of of the Bluff View Summer Reading Program have decided to make them part of the program’s July Reading Night. People are welcome to join them Thursday, July 12, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Bluff View Library for Pets and Pajamas...

Mill apprenticeship program targets technical education

Jun 27, 2018

When Jacob Pierzyna and Zachary Melin walked with their fellow students at Dunwoody College of Technology on May 17, they were the first students to graduate in partnership with a new Ardent Mills apprenticeship program. Pierzyna and Melin will continue working with Ardent Mills until early fall...