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St. Paul, MN - Rum River Tree Farm, the 2017 Minnesota State Fair Grand Champion Christmas Tree winner, has donated the 20 foot balsam fir standing outside the Minnesota State Capitol Building. The 2017 Christmas tree is the first donated since the grand reopening of the newly renovated Capitol Building. Dan Almendinger, second generation owner of Rum River Tree Farm, encourages Minnesotans to find a locally grown Christmas tree as the 2017 season opens statewide. “It’s a fantastic year to come out and treat your family to a real Christmas tre...
Prior Lake, Minn. – The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) and the University of Minnesota today announced the newest class of scholarship recipients for the SMSC Endowed Scholarship program. They include 19 Native American students from 10 different tribes. The new scholars represent: • Fourteen undergraduate students and five graduate students • Ten scholars from Minnesota tribes • Eight students at the University of Minnesota Duluth, six at the Twin Cities campus, and five at the Morris campus • Majors including civil engineeri...
Region 2 Arts Council (R2AC) awarded $18,992 to organizations and schools in Beltrami County through the Arts Learning Grant program designed to support high-quality arts education for Minnesotans of all ages to develop knowledge, skills, and understanding of the arts. The grant recipients in FY 2018 included: Bemidji Community Theater was awarded $3,837 to continue their Theater Internship Program allowing interns to work with mentors on five upcoming theater productions. Bemidji Middle School was awarded $2,094 to host writer Patricia Jamie...
Deadline: January 15, 2018 Maximum Award: $2,000 The R2AC Individual Artist Grant Program, made available with funding from the McKnight Foundation, provides financial assistance to artists in any art discipline or in any stage of their career as an artist. This grant offers funding for costs associated with the exhibition, performance, or production of a creative work; purchase of materials or equipment necessary for a creative work; educational opportunities; mentorships; and proposals for career-enhancing projects or opportunities. Artists...
Stillwater Area School District officials say extra precautions will be in place at Stillwater Area High School today after a threat was posted on social media Thursday night. The threat said: “If you go to Stillwater, do not go to school tomorrow because there’s someone threatening to shoot up the school.” http://www.twincities.com/2017/12/01/stillwater-schools-in-session-today-shooting-threat-investigated/...
After the president mockingly called Sen. Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" at a Navajo Code Talkers event Monday, layers of outrage swept Native American communities. Navajos and others in Arizona denounced the remark as an unmistakable slur, saying it minimized the tragedies that marked the real Pocahontas' life while distracting from the veteran Code Talkers' contributions. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/11/30/senator-elizabeth-warren-not-alone-making-questionable-claim-native-american-indian-herit...
A company in Canada's marijuana industry is planning to sell edibles -- for your dog. True Leaf Medicine International Ltd. is working on adding dog chews containing cannabis extracts to their pet products, which already include items infused with hemp seeds to help ease pups' joint pain, anxiety and inflammation, Bloomberg reported. http://www.wvnstv.com/news/national/company-to-sell-cannabis-dog-treats/871173264...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is to plead guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI, becoming the fourth person charged in a wide-ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors. Court documents show Flynn, an early and vocal supporter on the campaign trail of President Donald Trump, will admit to lying to the FBI about his conversations during the transition period with Russia's ambassador to the United States. https://www.yahoo.com/news/f...
WASHINGTON – Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand traveled to Ottawa, Canada on Thursday, Nov. 30, to lead the U.S. delegation in the Trilateral Summit on Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls. This is the second meeting of the trilateral working group. The first was hosted by the U.S. in 2016 and next year’s meeting will be in 2018, hosted by Mexico. Associate Attorney General Brand met with Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Canada’s Crown-Indigenous and Northern Affairs and Ismerai Betanzos Ordaz, Indigenous Rights Coordinator, Mexic...
Bolstered by new research and federal incentives, experts decided about a decade ago that better teacher evaluation was the path to better student achievement. A flood of states started toughening their teacher-evaluation systems, and many of them did it by incorporating student-test scores into educators' ratings. And while those policies are still in place in a majority of states, there are signs the tide is turning: Over the past two years, a handful of states have begun reversing mandates on using student-growth measures—and s...
A persistent rodent problem and a string of failed health inspections at a South Side elementary school drove infuriated parents and community members to protest the building’s conditions on Thursday morning, leading to a brief confrontation outside the school. “Our children should not even be in the building with mice,” Mollison Elementary School council member Yolanda Redman said, shortly after a group of adults was barred from entering the building. “This wouldn’t happen in any other community. It wouldn’t happen in Lincoln Park, it wo...
Minneapolis Public Schools have moved closer to staying within budget but still spent $7 million more than it planned in the last school year, audited financial statements show. The district’s overspending of its $599 million budget in 2016-17 was an improvement over the previous year, when it went $21.6 million over budget, according to audited financial statements on the district’s website. http://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-schools-trims-overspending-but-still-7m-over-budget/461115663/...
Bradley "Windy" Downwind (Chi-Bineshii (Big Bird) February 18, 1955 - November 28, 2017 Windy was born February 18, 1955 in Red Lake, MN, the son of Rupert and Alberta (Gurno) Downwind. His family moved to South Minneapolis where he attended South High and went to trade school to become a machinist, which he did for many years. In later years, he worked at the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig and Minneapolis Public Schools as a cultural teacher. He had a lot of pride in and was a lifelong member of AIM. He...
