Grand Avenue Elementary has new take on discipline
When one of her students said something mean to a classmate, second grade teacher Katie Trachsler left the student’s discipline up to him.
In the past, this type of infraction may have resulted in the student spending his recess indoors sitting glumly at his desk.
But under a new school-wide
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DNR wants hunters to squeal on pot growers
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Railroad, cooperative make their case
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