Clara City News

THUMBS UP: Banks have taken their share of knocks but it's great news when a regional bank constructs a new building in a small town.

They might miss being able to visit the post office, grocery store and bank on the same walk, but residents of Echo said they've got nothing to complain about with Citizens State Bank's new location on the edge of town.

A move by the San Francisco 49ers to Santa Clara is a step closer to reality after an early morning vote by the Santa Clara City Council.

May 20, 2009 11:01 pm US/Central Reporting John Lauritsen CLARA CITY, Minn. While most students' dream of a shorter school week, this year students in the MACCRAY school district lived it.

The public school board in Warroad, Minn., voted this week to go to a four-day school week starting next fall, as part of cost-cutting effort.

" Legislators on an education funding committee took the weekend off. A spat among Minnesota lawmakers negotiating a health care spending bill interrupted talks Saturday.

Two years later those prairie-hearty vines produced their first grapes, and since the start, the vineyard has been expanded to nine acres.

" In the next few days, Minnesotans will see federal economic stimulus funds in the form of orange barrels.

The Minnesota House and Senate conference committees have been appointed and, in some cases, already have begun to meet.

MARSHALL, Minn. a ' On July 4, 2008, the Minnesota Department of Education approved an experiment with the Southwest Minnesota school district, MACCRAY to move toward a four-day school week.

Sue Klabo said Minnesota hospitals like the one she leads face a oegravea circumstances if state policymakers make deep health-care budget cuts.

A four-day school week has been considered by Milaca, but last month, Ogilvie High School decided to become the second school district in the state to move to a four-day week.

Because of budget problems, Warroad may become Minnesotaa s second school to adopt a four-day week.

When MACCRAY Schools adopted its four day school week last year, the Clara City based district couldn't have known what it was starting.

The Ogilvie School District, in a continuing quest to reduce its operating budget, is exploring the idea of implementing a four-day school week beginning this September.

When Frank Farrington was born, President Roosevelt was in his last term in office, Theodore, not Franklin.

Emily Van Klampenburg's initial reaction to the prospect of attending school only four days a week was that the time off would make life easier.

Investigators reviewed surveillance video and caught Peterson in the act with thirty-two $20 bills on him.

The suggestions on how to fix the state budget shortfall were varied, but the theme of comments to Minnesota legislators at a Friday town hall meeting was consistent: Be careful what you cut.

Three southwestern Minnesota school districts are looking at a four-day school week to help cut costs.