EDUCATION
Greater Bemidji Area Joint Planning Board: Building gets approval by JPB for Voyageurs High School relocation 
Voyageurs Expeditionary High School is getting closer to relocating its school across town.
By Anne Williams , February 11, 2010
BMS speech team earns ribbons at first meet
Bemidji Middle School’s Speech Team performed well at their first meet of the year on Feb. 4 in Blackduck.
February 10, 2010
Bemidji youth places second at Young Artist competition
Sadie Hamrin, 9, of Bemidji, achieved second place at the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist competition on Jan. 29 in Duluth. Hamrin, the youngest member of the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra, played “Violin Concerto 23” by Giovanni Battista Viotti. The competition is for high school students or younger and is open to all orchestral instruments, including piano. Hamrin is instructed by Michelle Laliberte of Bemidji.
February 10, 2010
Rotary clubs to hold essay contest
The Bemidji Area Rotary Clubs’ annual 4-Way Test Essay Contest for high school students could see a student winning a $1,000 prize at the district level.
February 10, 2010
Kindness Week: ‘Culture of Kindness’ campaign starts with schools
Crazy hats, dress-up days, M&M counting, collecting books, raising money for charities and give-a-ways – all ways schools are promoting “Celebrate Kindness Week.”
By Anne Williams , February 10, 2010
Finding Miss Swanke: Students track down beloved teacher through daughter in Bemidji
FARGO, N.D. — This is a tale of gratitude. It’s also a tale of reunion, faith and healing. It’s about two little boys, now grown men, who were influenced by a dynamic young teacher.
By Tammy Swift, Forum Communications , February 10, 2010
Sylvan Learning Center Center offers parents a refresher course to help with schoolwork
“I don’t get it. Will you help me?”
By Anne Williams , February 10, 2010
Horace May Elementary School honored for going above and beyond to encourage kindness
Once a month, a handful of students from Horace May Elementary School are asked to eat breakfast with Principal William “Bill” Burwell, and it’s not because they’re in trouble.
February 10, 2010
BSU students raise funds for Ours to Serve House of Hospitality
From left, Bemidji State University students Casper Stephens, Travis Schultz and Matt Byrne, all active brothers in the BSU Omega Phi fraternity, spent 72 hours living outside on the BSU campus to raise money for Ours to Serve House of Hospitality, located at 416 Irvine Ave. N.W. in Bemidji. Businesses from the community and BSU organizations donated materials, such as cardboard boxes, wooden crates, sleeping bags and a burn barrel. The money the fraternity brothers receive throughout the three days, they will match in their donation to the House of Hospitality. Pioneer Photo/Anne Williams
February 05, 2010
BSU’s Dunn hired as dean at IUSB
Elizabeth E. Dunn, the interim dean at the College of Arts and Sciences at Bemidji State University, was recently hired as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Indiana University South Bend.
February 04, 2010
St. Philip’s student crowned Geography Bee champion
On Jan. 8, St. Philip’s School in Bemidji crowned a new National Geographic Geography Bee champion.
February 03, 2010
Blackduck School: Doetsch to receive Administrator of the Year award
Blackduck Superintendent Robert “Bob” Doetsch was selected as the 2010 Administrator of the Year by the Minnesota Association of School Administrators from District 29.
February 03, 2010
Dance Show sure to lift spirits
An evening of watching the best of Bemidji’s dance teams perform may be just the cure for cabin fever this winter.
By Anne Williams , February 03, 2010
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