Schools - Bulletin Area

Two Bulletin area teachers were announced as candidates for Education Minnesota’s 2017 Teacher of the Year award Jan. 26. 

Students entering a basement classroom at New Brighton’s Irondale High School found a small wooden tile with a message that read: “The KKK wants you.” 

Bulletin-area commencement ceremonies in chronological order:

• CLT Twin Lakes — May 25, 6:30 p.m., New Brighton Family Service Center

400 10th St. N.W. in New Brighton

Some roofs are meant to do far more than protect a building from weather, critters and a beating sun. 

According to Chippewa Middle School principal Rob Reetz, some roofs do all that and generate energy as well.

A Pinewood Elementary teacher is holding his place as a candidate for Education Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year award after the field of candidates has narrowed to 34 teachers across the state. 

Two Bulletin area teachers were announced as candidates for Education Minnesota’s 2016 Teacher of the Year award Feb. 3. 

Five candidates are running for four seats on the Mounds View Public Schools Board. Current ISD 621 board members Robert Helgeson, Amy Jones, Jonathan Weinhagen and Sandra Westerman are all running for reelection.

Mounds View High School has a 3-D art installation created by students and made out of cardboard — “The Mother of the Sea” — on display now in the entry area of the school. (Linda E. Andersen/Bulletin)

On the day of her 25th anniversary of beginning work at the KinderCare in Shoreview, teacher Janet Simons received extra recognition, that almost no one saw coming.