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New Prague High School nominated four students for awards through the Minnesota
State High School League. Left to right, seniors Noah Weichert and Aimee Ilkka were
nominated for the Triple "A" Award and juniors Mitchell Callahan and Lauren Kitner
were nominated for the ExCELAward. (Chuck Kajer Photo)
New Prague High School nominated four students for Minnesota State High School League awards during the current school year.
Triple "A" Award The Triple "A" Award, for Academics, Arts and Activities, is for seniors who have excelled in the classroom, the athletic field and in the fine arts.
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Third grade students at Raven Stream Elementary School wait to present the word they patterned a costume after during the Vocabulary Parade on Thursday, Feb. 28. There were 125 students who showed off their outfits to family. (Patrick Fisher Photo)
Witty, fracture, fan, blockhead, illuminate, vapor, fragile and biblioklept were a few of the words that third grade students at Raven Stream Elementary School learned. On Thursday, Feb. 28, the 125 students at the school on the west side of New Prague showed off those words during a Vocabulary...
The Elko New Market City Council is considering a policy change concerning a change in the waiver of fees along Xerxes Avenue. The proposed change grew out of a request for a waiver on a little more than $4,000 in connection fees from the Jodi and Jeff Lucast family at the council’s Thursday, Feb....
New Prague High School seniors, from left, Morgan Brandt, Erin Ambroz, Brooklynn Zimmer, Brooklynn Isley and Nora Zvanovec will be performing solos this weekend as part of the New Prague Area Figure Skating Club’s program Under the Big Top. The club’s Spring Skate Show will be on Saturday, March 16, and Sunday, March 17, at the New Prague Ice Arena. (Patrick Fisher photo)
The New Prague Area Figure Skating Club will present its Spring Skate Show this weekend with the theme “Under the Big Top.” Performances will feature “The Greatest Show on Ice” at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 16, and 1 p.m. Sunday, March 17, at the New Prague Ice Arena. Tickets are available at the door...
The owner of several local group homes pleaded guilty to gross misdemeanor criminal abuse, involving sexual relations with a vulnerable adult who was a client at one of her homes.
Paula Beulke, 63, of Montgomery, owner and chief executive of Blossom Hill Corporation and Sunrise Farms, pleaded...
The Montgomery Area Community Club revealed this year’s Kolacky Days button design at the first of two weekend membership drives on March 16.
The button was designed by Lisa Ingebrand, New Prague, and writer for the Montgomery Messenger.
New and renewing members received a kolacky and a button at...
Linda Roslansky (left) and Lauren Sell asked fifth grade students at TCU Montgomery what different scenarios when their "Creep Meters" could go off. The training was done last week as a way to arm students to protect themselves from assault and/or abduction. (Wade Young Photo)
Everyone can be a super hero.
The power is inside of them, but when they need to avoid an assualt, they need to learn to summon it.
That empowering message was one of the many lessons students learned last week in their Super Hero training at TCU Montgomery School.
The topic of sexual assault might...
The New Prague Area School Board’s meeting scheduled for Monday, March 11, has been postponed.
The meeting has been moved to Monday, March 18. It will be the only meeting this month due to spring break the following week.
WEM fifth grade teacher Rachael Wetzel utilized the website DonorsChoose.org to fund her students’ basic science fair supplies in an effort to bring back the school’s science fair, which will be held March 22 in Morristown. (Photo courtesy of Rachael Wetzel)
Donors respond to teacher’s request for funding, supplies
Fifth grade teacher Rachael Wetzel wanted to bring back the science fair to Waterville- Elysian-Morristown Schools, but with more than a third of her students coming from low-income families, the extra financial burden of the projects was...
