Starting next fall there will be another pre school option for parents in the Orono area.
A selection committee made up of the Westonka school board and staff/community members has chosen Tracy Hvezda-Lehtola, the City of Mound and …
New math: $1 is $2, when it benefits the schools.
Mound Westonka High School is proud to name senior Grace Peterson as the 2021 recipient of the Athena Award. Candidates for this “outstanding …
Hilltop Primary School kindergartners celebrated World Down Syndrome Day last Friday by wearing crazy socks and participating in activities de…
For the first time in the history of the Mound Westonka High School DECA Chapter, a team competed in a Virtual Business Challenge (VBC) and qu…
The Westonka Historical Society is reopening Saturday, March 6 after being closed since last March due to the coronavirus pandemic, and when i…
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Westonka’s middle and high school students are on their way to getting more face-to-face instruction than they received even at the start of t…
Westonka school board members unanimously approved the district’s revised 2020-2021 budget Feb. 8, finalizing a tumultuous year that brought i…
A Mound Westonka High School DECA project got the attention of the community in a big way in February when a stuffed animal drive resulted in …
Possible vision for next winter: your kid out on the ice, shooting the puck at Thaler and wearing a Captains Club-funded uniform while you you…
Students from across Minnesota gathered virtually at the annual YMCA Youth in Government (YIG) Model Assembly, including 17 Orono students in …
“There’s no debate what’s a more effective learning model: it’s in-person.”
Westonka is proud to have four high school musicians who were invited to participate in the Minnesota Music Educators Association (MMEA) All-S…
Most Westonka students returned to classrooms this week after nearly two months in distance learning.
Their season was just beginning after already being delayed once when word came to stop practices. Westonka’s hockey and ski teams were standi…
The Orono school board is continuing to hold their meetings virtually to limit person-to-person contact and they held their first meeting of t…
December is traditionally a time of giving for Westonka students and this year was no different. Despite the fact that students were involved …
Water pollution. The chemicals found in sunscreens. Excessive amounts of sunlight. These account for the white ring of coral—coral replicas—th…
Fluorescent lights will be no more within the Orono Public School District. The Orono School Board approved to install LED lights in district …
Westonka students enrolled in grades K-12 will begin the transition back to school buildings for in-person and hybrid learning with the start …
At its Dec. 7, regular meeting, the Orono Schools Board of Education voted 6-0 to accept Superintendent Dr. Karen Orcutt’s formal notice of re…
With an unknown date and location, Dr. Katherine Willow, a music teacher at Orono Intermediate School, will be heading abroad as part of the F…
When Orono Intermediate School fifth-grader Gabriella Daly found out her pencil drawing was accepted into the Minneapolis Institute of Art “Fo…
From turkey to Tannenbaum there’s no time lost.
Orono is one of the school districts in the area that are transitioning to a solely distance learning model. The school board approved the shi…
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An impressive total of 52 Mound Westonka High School students have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on…
