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Baesler says ND needs more STEM education

WEST FARGO – North Dakota needs more STEM schools and a way to expand and integrate that style of learning into high schools, the state’s superintendent of public instruction said Wednesday.

• Tour of STEM Center

Oak Grove to expand elementary campus

FARGO – Oak Grove Lutheran School will expand its elementary school this summer by purchasing a building just east of the school and converting it into classrooms for children in pre-kindergarten through first grade, school officials said Wednesday.

• Oak Grove expansion
• Oak Grove Elementary

'The war never leaves you': Veterans share Vietnam insights with South High students

FARGO – For Larry Reed, David Brunsvold and Russ Stabler, the Vietnam War hasn’t left their thoughts.

• Vietnam War veteran Larry Reed answers questions

Rothsay to vote on school bonding plan

ROTHSAY, Minn. – A $19.4 million school bond issue goes to voters here May 16.

• For more information, visit the website here.

School leaders react with disbelief, frustration after ND House kills K-12 funding bill

FARGO – The North Dakota House vote Friday morning to kill the K-12 education funding bill, and $714 million in property tax relief that went with it, was met with a mix of frustration and disbelief by local and state public school leaders.

• ND House kills K-12 funding, property tax relief bill on second try

Fargo School District task force plans to take its time

FARGO – The Fargo School District’s Long Range Facilities Planning Task Force will get at least a couple more meetings to come up with their vision for the city’s future public school construction.

'Every 15 Minutes': Moorhead High program aims to drive home cost of drunken driving

MOORHEAD – On the cold, wind-whipped track outside Moorhead High School, about 800 juniors and seniors looked on Wednesday as one of their classmates “died,” two others were badly injured, and another was arrested in a recreation of a drunken-driving crash.

• Living Dead

Maple Valley eighth-grader a North Dakota doodle dandy

TOWER CITY, N.D. – Doodling is Megan Tichy’s cup of tea. It’s also a talent that could help her rule the Internet for a day. Tichy’s doodle of a cup of tea with lemon, her headphones, a dress design and some drawing supplies won best in North Dakota in this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest.

• Megan Tichy's doodle

‘We stand on his shoulders’: Guy, four-term governor of North Dakota, lauded for lifetime of selfless service

FARGO – The life of Bill Guy, the farmer from Amenia who became a four-term governor of North Dakota, was celebrated Tuesday in a memorial service at Fargo’s First Presbyterian Church.

• Former U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad speaks at the memorial service

No butts about it: Arrival of spring means it’s time to clean up the streets

FARGO - The Big Sweep is coming. Downtown, particularly along Broadway, will be getting extra attention for the next few days as city and Downtown Community Partnership crews clear a winter’s worth of cigarette butts, mini booze bottles, broken glass, wrappers and sand from the sidewalks, streets and gutters.

• Cigarette butts
• Bicycles
• Jessica Olson

Columns

K-12 notebook: Fargo elementary principals receive state honor

Fargo School District elementary school Principals Bob Rohla and Maggie Mitzel were each recently awarded the “Service to Children Award” by the North Dakota Association of Elementary School Principals.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 notebook: Cheney students win Judge’s Award for robotics

The Cheney Middle School eighth-grade robotics league team “Chronic Fusion” earned the Judge’s Award at the 2010-11 North Dakota First LEGO League Championship Tournament on Feb. 5 in Grand Forks.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 Notebook: Shanley wins trip to New York to debate ‘Elite 8’

Fargo Shanley High School has advanced to the “Elite 8” round of an international debate contest, earning an all-expenses-paid trip to New York and a chance to win a $10,000 grand prize.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 notebook: Jamestown students take 1st, 3rd at LifeSmarts

Teams from Jamestown High School took first and third in North Dakota’s 2011 LifeSmarts competition in Bismarck, the attorney general’s office announced.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 Notebook: Shanley students hold poetry contest

Say it loud, and say it proud. Fargo Shanley High School is holding its Poetry Out Loud finals Monday. All of the school’s English students were required to memorize a poem and present it in class.

• Helmut Schmidt

K-12 Notebook: Schools compete for Healthy School Makeover

Several area schools are among the top 10 nominees for the top prizes in the Healthy School Makeover Contest.

K-12 Education Notebook: Two students will represent North Dakota at D.C. Senate program

Two North Dakota students were chosen as delegates to the 49th Annual United States Senate Youth Program, Sens. Kent Conrad and John Hoeven announced.

K-12 Education Notebook: Moorhead High’s ‘Tommy’ receives Hennepin honor

The Moorhead High School production of the rock opera “Tommy” recently earned the highest musical theater honor bestowed by the Historic Hennepin Theater Trust, the school district reported.

K-12 Notebook: Students invited to write about coming to US

Area students ages 13 to 19 who are immigrants or who have parents who are immigrants are invited to take part in an essay contest and write about their experiences in coming to America.

K-12 Notebook: Oakes High band students step up for the needy

The Oakes (N.D.) High School concert band is collecting gently worn shoes through Wednesday for the Soles4Souls program.