Education
What's new in the classroom?
Let's find out by reading what our Blooming Prairie Elementary School teachers have to say about returning to the classroom after being away from students for more than six months.
Most of the teachers, kindergarten through sixth grade, are ecstatic and joyful about...
After hearing Blooming Prairie Schools Superintendent Chris Staloch explain a Safe Learning Plan to return students to school, the board voted unanimously to approve a COVID-19 education plan.
Listening to Staloch in a Power Point presentation explain the numbers game of county cases of COVID-19,...
It was a battle to the finish in the annual Minnesota State High School League Nickname Challenge.
Combatants in the championship of the MSHSL contest were the Awesome Blossoms of Blooming Prairie and the Spuds of Moorhead.
Voting ended on June 29 with the Spuds winning the challenge of having the...
The 761 Foundation recently awarded scholarships totaling nearly $140,000 to 20 Owatonna High School (OHS) graduates.
Since its inception more than 25 years ago, the 761 Foundation has awarded nearly $1.4 million in scholarships to OHS graduates.
In announcing this year’s scholarship recipients,...
Not just once, but twice within the past 2½ years Logan Pleschourt has bounced back from a near death situation. Despite the daunting task of battling cancer, Pleschourt graduated from Medford High School Friday night.
Pleschourt, who has been diagnosed two different times with Stage 4B Hodgkin’s...
Because of the coronavirus, many high schools nationwide chose to honor their graduating seniors of 2020 with a special and unique commencement.
Blooming Prairie did just that for its 118th graduation in the school's history.
Sunday's graduation honoring 50 graduates was a virtual one. In fact,...
The 2020 commencement of Blooming Prairie High School seniors will be a one of a kind production and one they will never forget but remember with fondness.
The school's Valedictorian and two Salutatorians will address those in virtual attendance at the commencement ceremonies of Sunday, May 31....
It was bumper-to-bumper appreciation between Blooming Prairie teachers and students on a beautiful Thursday night.
Vehicles completely encircled a square block that includes the school and its playground.
The appreciation parade started at 5:30 p.m. and lasted until 7 p.m. Students and teachers...
When Shaun Robbins joined on as a teacher last fall at Owatonna Middle School, he didn’t know he would find himself in the middle of helping out with a pandemic crisis.
Robbins has not only been forced to navigate into the waters of distance learning for students, but he’s also helping with an...
As much as I miss seeing my students in my first-grade classroom in Blooming Prairie, I feel very fortunate that I am able to distance teach during the COVID-19 epidemic.
It’s a scary time in our world. I am thankful to be able to stay home with our own children and hopefully continue to “flatten...