May 2025

School board approves a number of personnel changes

Among other personnel actions approved at the District #84 School Board meeting on April 23, were the retirements of two long-time school district employees: Kathy Ahlrich, Elementary Administrative Assistant at the end of May; and Pat Stevermer, Community Ed. Director at the end of June. In addition, Business Manager Amanda Boomgarden’s resignation, effective April 11, was approved.

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Popular author draws a crowd

“I want to tell you some stories,” Minnesota author William Kent Krueger said, standing at the front of a packed room at the Sleepy Event Center on Wednesday evening, April 23. “I think of myself primarily as a storyteller. We think of stories as entertaining us, but they also enlighten us and inspire us.”

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