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Students protest removal of Native song from northern Minnesota graduation ceremony
HINCKLEY, Minn. — In a protest through songs, more than 50 students gathered outside Hinckley-Finlayson High School Wednesday afternoon, demanding a reversal to a school board decision to take a traditional Native song out of this year's upcoming graduation ceremony."It makes me happy that people actually care about what's going on here," said Hinckley-Finlayson High School senior Kaiya Wilson.The Ojibwe Traveling Song is meant at graduation to symbolize the transition from high school to what's next."It's super important to have this at our ceremony because this is something we do as Native Americans in our culture. This song is meant to...
North Branch robotics teams advance to state
North Branch had not one, not two, but three FIRST Tech Challenge teams compete in the state tournament in March. FIRST Tech Challenge in Minnesota (MN FTC) is part of an international robotics program that includes more than 6,400 teams globally. High Tech Kids, in partnership with FIRST, has been bringing this competition to Minnesota since 2013. Teams of up to 15 students collaborate to build and program a robot...
City of Braham receives audit report and wastewater project update
Some good and some not-so-good news came to Braham council during its May 7 meeting, both under the topic of finance. Mostly positive feedback was given by Greg Burkhardt with Burkhardt and Burkhardt, who presented the city of Braham’s 2023 audit report. “I certainly was not expecting this drastic of a change after one year,” Mayor Nate George said in response. ...
Tooting the horn of top Braham musicians
Braham Area High School honored two of its seniors with music awards at the school’s final band and choir concert of the year in late April. Delaney Johnson was awarded the National School Choral Award, while Ben White was awarded the John Philip Sousa Award. Johnson participated in both band and choir for her entire high school career. She has been a part of concert band, jazz band, all-conference band,...
Softball Recap: Lola Mold can't quite lead Rush City over Proctor
It was a good run, but Rush City unfortunately witnessed the end of their four-game winning streak on Friday. They fell 6-2 to the Proctor Rails. Having soared to a lofty 15 runs in the game before, Rush City couldn't push the score so high this time. Kendal Pillar spent...
Affirmative action plan hastily approved by County Commissioners
Isanti County commissioners were put in a sticky situation during their May 7 board meeting when the Affirmative Action Plan came before them. Human Resources Director Heather Sward informed the board about the action plan, which had not been submitted to the state yet and was overdue. “It came to our attention from the Department of Human Rights that, with the changeover in staff, we were late in getting this...
Owners of now-closed wedding venue sued by jilted couples
STILLWATER, Minn. — At least five couples have sued the owners of an Isanti wedding venue that closed without notice, leaving them in the lurch and short thousands of dollars they'd already paid. "We kind of figured they weren’t going to give us our money back and this was...
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