People couldn’t be blamed too much if they’ve forgotten about the 2020 Census. First the coronavirus shut down social and business life. Then the police killing of a black man in Minneapolis focused attention that there really are two Americas – one white and one black – for law enforcement, but also health, work, education and housing. But the census
The incident could have ended tragically. St. Cloud police tried to disarm a black man in the early morning hours of June 15 and the gun went off. The bullet hit a cop and the man escaped, only to be caught and arrested a few minutes later. Officer goes to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Man with the
Carolyn James of Sartell has been named to the spring semester dean’s list for achieving a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher at Alexandria Technical & Community College. Faith Kowalke and Lea Uzalac of Sartell have been named to the spring semester dean’s list at the University of Minnesota-Crookston. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must attain a 3.66
It was a vicious public lynching, except the policeman used his knee instead of a noose to squeeze the life out of George Floyd as three cops stood there and watched. That cruel cold-blooded murder on a Minneapolis street unleashed outrage and demonstrations worldwide and rightfully so. These murders of black boys and men, often by police, have been going
William Todd Manske, Sartell The present-day Minnesota Twins organization has removed the statue of former owner Calvin Griffith. Let’s be smart about this national preoccupation with statue removal and just make all statues illegal, especially religious ones. If we are smart about this, we could talk the state of Nebraska tourism folks into buying them, crushing them, painting them and
REGULAR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 748 MAY 18, 2020 DISTRICT SERVICE CENTER BOARD ROOM VIA TELECONFERENCE The regular school board meeting of Independent School District 748 was called to order at 6:30 p.m. by Chair Jeremy Snoberger. Members present via teleconference: Snoberger, chair; Jason Nies, vice chair; Amanda Byrd, clerk; Patrick Marushin, treasurer;
CALL FOR BIDS – MILK PRODUCTS ISD #748 SARTELL-ST. STEPHEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS SARTELL, MN The Board of Education of Independent School District No. 748, Sartell, Minnesota, will receive sealed bids until 1 p.m. Monday, July 13, 2020 in the District Services Center of said district for Milk Products for the 2020-21 school year to be delivered to each of the