ANOKA COUNTY • Anoka-Ramsey Community College is seeing its largest enrollment in a decade. Since fall 2005, the number of new students is up by 6 percent and overall enrollment has increased by 4.2 percent, the college said recently. More than 7,500 students currently attend school in campuses in Cambridge and Coon Rapids.
Faced with bids approximately 10 percent more than expected for remodeling and additions to Humphrey and Winsted Elementary Schools, the Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted School Board postponed further action on bids until Wednesday, Oct. 11 so that it can consider its options in light of these higher projection costs.
DAKOTA COUNTY • The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School Board has scheduled listening sessions in the community for the upcoming levy referendum and any other topics residents wish to address. Two or three board members will be present at each session, which run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The first session is today at Savage Public Library, 13090 Alabama Ave. S. Future meetings are set for Monday at
Iwonder if you had simply called this new feature by a different name would there still have been individuals and schools upset by it? The feature seems harmless enough and was fun to read, especially for someone from Wisconsin that is unfamiliar with Minnesota high school football. As a high school and college coach myself (track and cross country) I can see where people may be concerned with
Barbara Klemme had so many interests and was involved in so many charitable ventures that no single person knew all that she did, said Norman V. Steere, her companion of six years. "I don't know what an indomitable spirit looks like, but if there is one, I think she had it," Steere said. Klemme, 76, a lifelong Stillwater resident, died at her home on Sept. 22. Klemme's parents, George and Estelle
