MARSHALL — Performing under the spotlight in one capacity or another has always been Blake Schmitz’s career aspirations, but it changed from competing in stadium lights to singing under stage lights. Schmitz, a local farmer from Currie, is making his way through the music industry as a ...
GIBBON — The ground may be dry as a bone now, but the Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop (GFW) School Board learned that heavy summer rain and project state permit delays are challenging a fall 2025 completion of a new $70 million pre-K-12 school. “We lost 39 working days, about two months of time, ...
GIBBON — The Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop (GFW) School Board will consider a $57.3k fire pump-related change order request to the school building project from Kraus-Anderson (KA) Construction Co. on Monday. According to a Sept. 23 letter to GFW Supt. Dr. Kelly Smith from KA Project Manager Brian Johnson, the request includes $28,650 for an electric fire pump, $5,750 to install it and $22,900 for a reduced voltage soft start controller and automatic power transfer switch, if required. The letter read that the fire pump cost would be added to the project for adequate fire suppression to the ...
ST. PAUL – The Minnesota 4-H State Horse show Sept. 13-16 featured six Brown County 4-H members. Youth from across the state participated in the annual event at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in hippology, horse judging, horse training and ...
Superintendent Robin Courrier presented Nicollet Public School’s MCA test results from the Spring of 2024. The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA) are the state tests in reading, mathematics, and science that are used to meet federal and state legislative requirements. The percentage of NPS elementary students meeting standards in math was 44.9% in 2023 and 63.2% in 2024; for reading 48.3% in 2023 and 70.5% in 2024; and for science 66.7% in 2023 and 43.5% in 2024. Courrier added, “Our focus was for math and reading and will continue to be, but we will add science.” For ...
SLEEPY EYE — Sleepy Eye Public School Superintendent John Cselovszki told the school board Wednesday that interest surveys for a proposed city-school recreation/fine arts facility will be mailed to Dist. 84 residents and landowners next week. In March, Cselovszki presented an architectural drawing of the proposed facility to the Sleepy Eye City Council. The city council unanimously approved spending up to $5,000 for a $10,000 survey by the school district to determine public interest in the project. “We’re asking people for their opinion about the building project. The survey ...
