Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told through the lens of our communities and the role many of the places we call home played in shaping the nation before, during and after the Revolutionary War. This week we begin ...
Creation of an “alternative school” for dropouts is being seriously considered by the New Ulm School Board. A proposal that such a school-geared with “high-interest” courses to the specific needs of the student-be established next fall was made to the school board Thursday by Todd Wennerstrom, director of the River Bend Special Education Cooperative. “We’re talking about the kids in school who just don’t make it for a variety of reasons,” he told the board. IN MAKING the appeal to the board, Wennerstrom justified the proposal as a possible cost-saving program for the ...
New Ulm got some solid pats on the back from persons answering a questionnaire about shopping in the city. Courtesy ranked high on the list, being cited by 88persons or 29 per cent of those answering the survey as the thing they liked most about shopping in New Ulm. “The merchants are ...
There may be about 30 fewer teachers in Journal area public schools next year, a survey of area school officials indicates. Some of the loss will be accounted for by retirements and resignations, and much of it simply by not renewing contracts next year, mostly for non-tenured first-year teachers. Responses by officials indicate that many of the cuts in teaching staff-primarily those in the elementary grades-are due to declining enrollments. OTHERS, HOWEVER, are due to budget deficit problems. That is, many schools’ disbursements are exceeding revenue and the schools are ...
Cream Station Operator at Comfrey Bound Over to District Court on Possession Charge. ———— MOON BOTTLE BURSTS JUG BLOWS OUT CORK ———— High Powered Stuff “Perfumes” Interior of Deputy Sheriff Wm. H. Gieseke’s Sedan. ———— No one can deny that the moonshine, which Nels K. Hilland, Comfrey cream station operator, is charged with having in possession, is high-powered stuff, for, according to Deputy Sheriff William H. Gieseke, who carted it to New Ulm as evidence, after Hilland was arrested, Saturday afternoon, it completely wrecked a five-gallon ...
Board of Education Appropriates Sum Not To Exceed 8100 for Tests in Public Schools. ———— F. H. GAMEL CHOICE FOR COMMENCEMENT ORATOR ———— Miss Martha Steele Elected to Succeed Miss Gertrude Hughes, Who Resigned as Teacher. ———— The 57 pupils of the public school grades here, who are 10 per cent or more underweight, will be supplied with half a pint of whole milk every school day from next Monday until the close of the present term, according to action taken by the board of education, at its adjourned monthly meeting, Tuesday evening, upon ...
