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  • Red Lake valedictorian mulls teaching, DNR careers

    Joe Bowen, Bemidji Pioneer|Jun 3, 2019

    RED LAKE-Jalen Kelly is multifaceted. He's Red Lake High School's valedictorian who'll take his 3.7 GPA to Minnesota State University Moorhead to study, at least for the moment, biology. But the 18-year-old is also a multi-position football star and basketball player for the Warriors. "I'm a pretty mixed dude, I can be a jock if I want. I can be a nerd, too, every now and then," Kelly, wearing a Dragonball Z T-shirt, said. "I like to get jiggy with some anime." Biology comes easily to Kelly, he...

  • BP: 1,400-plus expected to graduate from Bemidji-area colleges, universities

    Joe Bowen, Bemidji Pioneer|May 8, 2019

    BEMIDJI—About 1,460 students are expected to graduate from five Bemidji-area colleges and universities this month. Bemidji State University, Northwest Technical College, Oak Hills Christian College, Leech Lake Tribal College, and Red Lake Nation College all have scheduled graduation or commencement ceremonies in May. Here's a brief rundown of each ceremony, organized by date: Friday, May 10 Bemidji State University, 2 p.m. at the Sanford Center. Alan Page, a Hall of Fame Minnesota Vikings lineman who went on to become a venerated justice on the...

  • Red Lake School District again waits for project funding

    Joe Bowen, Bemidji Pioneer|Feb 6, 2018

    RED LAKE-After nearly a decade of waiting and an 11th-hour denial last year, Red Lake School District officials hope they can get state funding for a series of construction and renovation projects in 2018. The school district has a $14.5 million plan to add new classrooms, expand the cafeteria and renovate several existing music, art and computer spaces at Red Lake Elementary and Red Lake Early Childhood Center. The plan is one of dozens in Gov. Mark Dayton's recently unveiled bonding proposal...

  • Anonymous threat prompts lockdown at Red Lake schools

    Joe Bowen, Bemidji Pioneer|Feb 10, 2017

    BEMIDJI-Schools in Red Lake went into lockdown this morning and Red Lake Nation College closed for the day after staff learned of an anonymous threat. Red Lake Schools Superintendent Anne Lundquist said schools in her district went into a "restricted movement lockdown" at about 10:30 a.m. after a school resource officer there heard that Beltrami County had received an anonymous 911 call from someone who claimed they "might shoot up a school." The threat did not specifically mention or target...

  • Dayton's proposal would send millions more to Bemidji-area schools

    Joe Bowen, Bemidji Pioneer|Feb 10, 2017

    BEMIDJI-Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton's state budget proposal includes a $609 million increase in public education spending over the next two years, and nearly $6 million of that would go to Bemidji-area school districts and charter schools. Dayton's budget proposal would mean an additional $3.1 million for Bemidji Area Schools in the 2018-19 school year, $1.2 million for the Red Lake School District, $870,000 for Cass Lake-Bena Schools, $406,000 for Blackduck Public Schools, and about $300,000...

  • Proposed bonding bill includes millions for Red Lake schools

    Joe Bowen, Bemidji Pioneer|Jan 6, 2017

    BEMIDJI—Gov. Mark Dayton's proposed bonding bill includes millions of dollars for a project at Red Lake School District. The governor recommended allocating $14 million to pay for six new classrooms, a larger cafeteria, renovated music and fine arts classrooms and updated mechanical systems at Red Lake's elementary school and early childhood center. The planned project also includes a corridor connecting the school district's early childhood and elementary buildings, which Red Lake Superintendent Anne Lundquist said house about half of the d...