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Pioske to serve as interim assistant boys basketball coach

CHISHOLM—The Chisholm School Board on Monday took action to fill a coaching vacancy within the school district. In a unanimous vote, the board approved the hiring of Pam Pioske as interim assistant boys basketball coach for the 2026-2027 school year, effective November 23. Pioske is the head coach of the state tournament bound Bluestreaks girls volleyball team, and has a long history of coaching in the school district. The board on Monday awarded a security camera upgrade at the high school to Arrowhead Radio and Security, at a total cost of $88,189.79, to be funded through referendum funds. THe quote includes Smart Assurance licenses and increased NVR storage capacity, according to the agenda. The board took up the following other items at its meeting on Monday. All votes were unanimous, according to unofficial minutes. • Approved an altered school day for Thursday, Nov. 12. Students will be dismissed at 12:10 to accommodate students wanting to support the state bound girls volleyball team in their opening game. School is on as scheduled for Friday, Nov. 13. • Hired Katelyn Theisen as Close-up co-advisor, effective November 9. • Approved a leave of absence for Peighton Worlie from junior high volleyball coaching, from

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AUDIO: Three Bemidji High School Seniors Ink College Commitments On National Signing Day

A trio of Bemidji High School senior student-athletes made their college sports commitments official with a National Signing Day ceremony on Wednesday morning at Bemidji High School. Ahead of the Section 8AA Girls Swimming/Diving Championships this Saturday, Bemidji senior Elle Wille signed her National Letter of Intent to swim for...

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Bluestreaks open state tourney looking for revenge against Eagles

ST. PAUL—Ending a 19-year state tournament drought, the Chisholm volleyball team is ready to step onto the biggest stage today when they meet Sacred Heart in a Class A State Tournament quarterfinal. For the fifth-seeded Bluestreaks, seeing the fourth-seeded Eagles may bring a sense of comfortability, as the two teams met back on September 26 at the Class A Showcase with Sacred Heart edging out a 2-0 (25-17, 25-22) victory over Chisholm. Seeing how the bracket was laid out this past weekend, ‘Streaks coach Pam Pioske said it was what she expected and what she had hoped for when it came to a round one opponent. “I was glad to see five because I really felt strongly that that’s where we should’ve been,” Pioske said. “I felt like Sacred Heart should’ve been four so I really liked how things came out. I thought it was spot on. We did play them earlier and lost to them in a close match but our main hitters had a really off couple of days at that tournament. Now, we’re on and we’re at our peak. If we play like we did in the playoffs, we should beat them.” Asked about the Eagles’ strengths,

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Rock Ridge to keep discussing possibility of 4-day week

VIRGINIA/EVELETH—After a lengthy discussion, the Rock Ridge School Board will hold a working session at 5 p.m. Nov. 23 so board members can talk out the parameters of possibly going to a four-day week. While the board has not authorized going to a four-day week, Superintendent Noel Schmidt brought up the idea of studying it as a possible budget reduction. Any possible decision on going to a four-day week would have to be made by April. According to Schmidt’s rough draft timeline, a series of community meetings would be held next month to gather feedback and advice from the public. Meetings (three at each school) would be held at Laurentian, North Star and Parkview elementaries, along with Rock Ridge High School. Schmidt said once all of the information is gathered from the public, it will be “clustered’’ into big themes/big concerns. That is better than deciding what the themes are before the public meetings. He estimated there would be three-five clusters, and committees would be formed to look at them and come up with potential answers and recommendations before bringing it back to the full school board. The different clusters could possibly be on transportation, academics or athletics, he added.

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Declining kindergarten enrollment, sub pay top agenda at Grand Rapids School Board meeting

GRAND RAPIDS — Declining kindergarten numbers and a push to raise substitute teacher pay topped the agenda as the Grand Rapids Area School Board met for its regular meeting on Monday, Nov. 10. Director of Business Services Alex Kaczor and Superintendent Matt Grose opened with an Enrollment Indicator Report detailing current district trends. Total enrollment across ISD 318 stands at 3,874 students. While total headcounts match figures from two decades ago, district leaders pointed to a sharp drop in incoming kindergarteners as a growing concern, with this year's class sitting at just 198 students. Grose noted that smaller incoming classes bring financial and staffing consequences that the district will begin navigating as early as this spring. Demographics across Minnesota show families having fewer children, though nearby districts are reporting similar drops. ISD 318 has scaled back from 73 elementary sections in 2022 to 60 this year. Kaczor also pointed to the district’s massive geography—the third largest in Minnesota—as a unique factor alongside state funding rules, which set basic funding at $7,863 per pupil for FY27. Debate over substitute teacher pay The board also took up a proposal from Kacie Maeder to increase pay for substitute teachers to stay competitive with

Grand Rapids, MN · 2d

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Beavers on the hunt for NSIC North title, close season against Marauders

BEMIDJI, Minn. — Bemidji State University Football closes out the 2026 season with a share of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference North Division title on the line Saturday as they travel to Bismarck, N.D. to take on the University of Mary Marauders at 1 p.m. BSU NOTES. Bemidji State...

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Virginia sets special meeting to review forensic audit

VIRGINIA—Councilor Liz Motley let the public know (at Tuesday night’s regular meeting) the forensic audit of Virginia’s finances has been received by the city. After some debate on the timing, the council set a special City Council meeting at 3 p.m. Nov. 24 to discuss the findings from the firm Perry Forensic. Engaging in a forensic audit was approved in July after the city discovered $3.7 million missing from a dedicated sales tax fund earlier in the year. The action came after the city had a cash flow problem and discovered about $3.7 million was spent out of a restricted special sales tax fund designed to repay a General Obligation Revenue Bond issued about six years ago for the Iron Trail Motors Event Center. The extra 1% sales tax was approved by the Legislature in 2019 and its proceeds were specifically restricted to pay back the ITMEC bonds, not the city’s general fund expenses. The council wanted to determine what, exactly, those funds were spent on and decided on the audit. Motley was hoping for the meeting on Nov. 17, but the timing didn’t work for the others on the council. “I do believe we owe it to the taxpayers

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City Council finalizes local election

GRAND RAPIDS — To open its meeting on Monday, Nov. 9, the Grand Rapids City Council adopted a resolution finalizing the municipal races held during last Tuesday’s midterm elections. The resolution canvasses and declares the results from the election, which determined Grand Rapids Mayor Tasha Connelly was reelected as mayor with 3,599 total votes. Dale Adams (2,899), and Tom Sutherland (2,770) were both elected to council seats. The city council adopted the resolution declaring the election results in a unanimous roll call vote. During Positive Happenings, Mayor Connelly highlighted the Grand Rapids High School football team, who just won the Section 7AAAA Championship and will play in the state quarterfinals this Friday in Brainerd. Connelly also said that Rob Mattei of the economic development authority (GREDA) notified the city council that the city of Grand Rapids received several large census tracts as federal Qualified Opportunity Zones in southern Grand Rapids, designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury. The hope is that the designation draws interest with lucrative economic opportunities and tax incentives to spur development and redevelopment for two areas inside Grand Rapids, effective Jan. 1, 2027, through 2036. COUNCIL REPORTS Molly MacGregor went as an alternate to the Grand

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