education

John Ashley, executive director of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, made a special trip from Madison Monday afternoon to recognize the achievements of St. Croix Central School Board President Howard Kruschke in person. ”You have here in Howard a leader, somebody who...

Seven students from Somerset Middle and High School recently participated in the Wisconsin School Music Association State Honors Project. Eli Anderson (grade 8), Mara Erickson (grade 8), Colin Gallo (grade 9),and Zeb Rivard (grade 9) were a part of the Middle Level Honors Choir....

St. Croix Central Elementary October Students of the Month were honored Friday, Nov. 7 during a CARES assembly. SCC CARES, and it showed in the faces and applause of the students as their classmates made their to the stage for their certificates. What does CARES stand for? Cooperation,...

“Close your eyes and picture the people you love most in the world. Go to them in the next three days and tell them how much you love and care about them. Your hands are an extension of Rachel’s, continuing the chain reaction.” These were the words spoken by Rachel’s Challenge...

t has been tradition for 25 years for second-graders at St. Croix Central Elementary to decorate pumpkins as their favorite book characters. According to second-grade teacher Megan Johnson, teachers Ann DiSalvo, Gloria Willert and Vicki Siebold began the beloved tradition in 1989....

Area schools celebrated Halloween on Friday, Oct. 31 with costume parades, pumpkin displays and a lot of other fun activities.

On most Wednesday afternoons, from 3 to 4 p.m., New Richmond High School math teacher Kali Kocmoud can be found in her classroom helping the students in the school’s Origami Club learn how to change paper into art. “Origami is the art of paper folding and there is no gluing...

Amber Vrieze's third-grade class participated in its first book club of the year on Friday, Oct. 24, at Somerset Elementary School. Together, five small groups of students read a book appropriate to their reading levels. Throughout the book, students met to discuss the reading, vocabulary,...

The St. Croix Central High School Drama Club will present a show to remember on Saturday, Nov. 1, with its collaboration of “Jazz, Dinner and Drama!” Attendees will enjoy a one-act play, jazz music and an Italian feast. The one-act play, “Check Please,” tells the tales...

For this year’s New Richmond High School fall production, director Katelyn Peterson decided to go with “A Company of Wayward Saints: A Comedy in Two Acts,” a modern play done in a very old style of theater by George Herman. “It is a really old style of theater that has...