It has always been about educating students for John Worke.
On July 1, Worke, the Blooming Prairie activities director and facilities manager, will become the high school principal. Whether he will continue coaching the girls basketball team and performing other current duties has yet to be determined.

Westfield Township residents will have two more weeks to submit written comments on whether the township should establish its own planning and zoning regulations. At the end of the two weeks township supervisors will review all the information and will decide at a meeting in a month how they want to proceed.

Tractors proved a powerful pull during the Blooming Prairie FFA’s 12th annual Toy Show, drawing curious shoppers from around the region on the last Saturday of winter.
Toy tractors, that is. And while they appeared to make up the bulk of the items sold in Blooming Prairie High School’s cafeteria March 14, other wares were available, including massage gift certificates and vintage magazines.

Happy first week of spring. If this week has proved anything, it is that March weather in Minnesota can be unpredictable.
Just when we thought winter might be over, we got hit Sunday afternoon and evening with another shot of snow. Fortunately, the weather is warming and the sun is getting high enough in the sky that this round of snow will not be on the ground long.

Triton School Board members need to be thinking about an operating levy referendum for fall 2016, Superintendent Brett Joyce told board members March 16.
The amount of money available to the district per pupil through tax levies dropped this year because a levy from 2003 that brought in $350 per student was allowed to expire. Levies are for 10 years unless they are renewed.
A second levy referendum expires in 2018.

Editor’s note: Washington Elementary School has created four leadership teams to replace the traditonal student council so more students get the chance to be leaders. This is the first in a series of stories featuring each of the leadership teams.
 
Students and staff members at Washington Elementary School were wearing green last Tuesday not only for St. Patrick’s Day, but for No Waste Day. 

Medford High School students are thinking back to when they were children in an attempt to to channel their inner kid for the upcoming spring musical “Freckleface Strawberry,” in which all play 7-year-olds. 

Dana Standke’s high spirits have impressed friends and family members in the months since a farming accident cost the elementary-schooler her right forearm. 
Sunday morning, it was greater Ellendale’s turn to display its own indomitable spirit.

Madison Worke, Taylor Hagen and John Rumpza will all have the honor of attending this year's Minnesota Basketball Coach Association's All Star games thanks, in part, to the Blooming Prairie Lions Club. 
While the talent and character of these three students is what certainly made them eligible for the invitation, the Lions Club will foot the bill for the weekends.