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| Al Owne in the kitchen (05/12/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
Happy Mothers Day to all mothers reading this column. Mothers Day is a special day, but it doesnt seem right to thank and praise mom on just one day a year.
While looking at a waffle recipe in ... FULL STORY
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| How isms define social justice (05/08/2013) |
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by Mary Jane Guy
Dr. Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars, ventured where few dare to tread in the hallowed groves of academe: he questioned social justice teaching in th ... FULL STORY
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| Hopes and dreams for WSU (04/03/2013) |
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by Scott Olson - WSU President
For the last few months, Ive been listening to Winona State University students, faculty, staff, and community friends share their hopes and dreams for this great ... FULL STORY
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| Al Owne in the kitchen (03/03/2013) |
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By Al Owne --
I tried waffles again. I dont know if its the antique iron, or me, but they didnt turn out too well. The good things were: I didnt burn myself, I used the hint I read about pouring the batter in ... FULL STORY
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| Rooting for yellowness (10/14/2012) |
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From: Emilio DeGrazia
The philosopher Albert Camus, sensitive to societys desire to enjoy a moral lifestyle, made no secret of this essential belief: All that I know most surely about morality a ... FULL STORY
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| How to deal with a disaster (08/08/2012) |
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by State Rep. Gene Pelowski
In 2007 a disaster hit Southeastern Minnesota. The federal, state and local units of government helped to rebuild the homes, businesses and infrastructure damaged or des ... FULL STORY
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| R.I.P. Mi Amigo, John Edstrom (06/27/2012) |
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By Dave DeLano --
With a very heavy heart I bid adieu this week to my buddy, John Edstrom. Our history goes back a long way. I have known John Edstrom for well over half a century, dating back to my kindergarten days a ... FULL STORY
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| GRSF Company ambassadors for Winona (06/08/2011) |
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From: Dave and Kathy Christenson
We have read other letters describing the Great River Shakespeare Festivals wonderful productions, excellent acting, and community-wide events. Those are the thin ... FULL STORY
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| Shakespeare not just for adults (05/18/2011) |
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From: Ruth Charles
Professor, Winona State University
Let me correct your thinking Shakespeare is not just for adults! Children and teens of all ages can come to love Shakespeare and can be pu ... FULL STORY
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| WOW! (05/11/2011) |
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From: Cullen Schwemer
Julieanne Schwemer
WOW!! Tip your hat and say hello, the Great River Shakespeare Festival leaders, actors, and crew are back for another year of Shakespeare presentations. Th ... FULL STORY
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| WSU Theme Houses (05/11/2011) |
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From Kurt Lohide
WSU Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services
Whats up with the Winona State University Theme Houses?
Questions and concerns are raised any time there is a change in ... FULL STORY
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| Setting the Stage campaign (05/04/2011) |
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From: Larry Jost
When we moved to our farm at the end of a secluded valley in Alma, Wisconsin a couple of years ago my wife Anne and I expected to discover many new and exciting things. What we di ... FULL STORY
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| Keeping GRSF is up to you (04/20/2011) |
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From: Margaret Shaw Johnson
I love the Great River Shakespeare Festival! I love everything about it, as does my husband, Bruce. Bruce is an athlete. He never paid much attention to Shakespeare o ... FULL STORY
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| Arts for students through GRSF (04/13/2011) |
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From: Laurie Lucas
We are so lucky to have professional directors and actors who make Wills English understandable! Through voice, movement and expressions Shakespeares stories come alive in p ... FULL STORY
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| Field Report (11/03/2010) |
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By Paul Barnes --
6 AM, Manhattan.
Im on the last leg of four weeks of travel before arriving in Salt Lake City to begin rehearsals next week at Pioneer Theatre Company for Irving Berlins White Christmas, which wi ... FULL STORY
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| The Home Stretch (07/21/2010) |
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By Paul Barnes --
As I sit down to write this, there are two weeks left of the 2010 Great River Shakespeare Festival season. Were about to enter the home stretch. By the time you read this, well be well on our way t ... FULL STORY
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| Angels, balancing acts, free stuff (05/09/2010) |
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By Paul Barnes --
Angels
Tis the night before packing and all through the house. . .
I begin my drive to Winona tomorrow, and by the time you read this, Ill be somewhere between Oregon and Minnesota, or, pending ... FULL STORY
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| Magnetic Catholic Schools (02/24/2010) |
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From: Will Gibson
Winona is blessed with a strong network of Catholic schools which provides families faith-based, academically rigorous, and culturally enriching opportunities to grow in mind, bod ... FULL STORY
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| Oh, go jump in a lake (02/10/2010) |
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By Sarah Squires --
I think its safe to say that Southerners dont have some strange hot climate tradition that puts them in tin foil suits in the hottest noon hour sun, baking in misery for funsies. It doesnt sound ... FULL STORY
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| Snowbird University (01/27/2010) |
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By Paul Barnes --
Im writing from Boca Raton, Florida, where Ive spent the last two days (with one more to go), meeting faculty and talking to students in the theatre department at Florida Atlantic University, watchi ... FULL STORY
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| Winona on my mind (12/23/2009) |
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By Paul Barnes --
One of my favorite holiday films is the 1983 classic, A Christmas Story, featuring Peter Billingsley as Ralphie, the boy who wants nothing more for Christmas than a Red Ryder Carbine Action Range Mo ... FULL STORY
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| At ease at last (09/23/2009) |
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By Paul Barnes --
The production of Amadeus I just opened at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis happened to receive, much to my surprise, a glowing notice in the Friday, September 18, edition of The Wall Street Journal ... FULL STORY
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| WOW: More Than a Wow! (07/01/2009) |
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By Paul Barnes --
When we learned that Winona National Bank would be unable to host our traditional opening night party this season, many of us at the Great River Shakespeare Festival despaired. The party, to which WN ... FULL STORY
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| Season opening nerves (06/21/2009) |
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By Paul Barnes --
Its all going to happen.
Season Six. Five weeks, two plays, 17 actors, 1 Intern/Apprentice company projectconcerts, classes, conversations and more.
Were 19% ahead in ticket sales from where w ... FULL STORY
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| Bishop Loras Watters, R.I.P. (04/01/2009) |
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From: Ivan Kubista
It was early summer of 1983, and Id been waiting over a week for the results of my job interview with the Diocese of Winonas search committee. Feeling enough time had passed, ... FULL STORY
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| Education Tax Credit bill (01/18/2009) |
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by Craig Junker
President, Cotter Schools
Every week we read news stories about the challenges facing elementary and secondary education throughout our country. This past fall, media outlets rais ... FULL STORY
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| Rumors and reality (01/11/2009) |
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By Paul Durand --
Many rumors have circulated among state officials regarding an anticipated financial shortage, but today, our nastiest suspicions have been realized. In early December 2008 school officials across Min ... FULL STORY
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| Where are GRSFers this winter? Part Two (12/31/2008) |
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From: Paul Barnes
Producing Director
GRSF
In the world of technical direction and scenic construction, GRSFs founding company member and resident technical director, Erik Paulson, provided in-ho ... FULL STORY
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| Where are GRSFers this winter? Part One (12/28/2008) |
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by Paul Barnes
Producing Director
GRSF
At the end of each summer season, members of the GRSF company disperse not just to the farthest reaches of the country to resume their careers and their stu ... FULL STORY
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| Our blessings are great (12/03/2008) |
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From: Gary Evans
HBCI
It is my fervent hope as we pause this year to celebrate the holidays that we do as Winonans before us have done and remember those less fortunate than we are by donating to ... FULL STORY
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| Challenging times (11/23/2008) |
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by Paul Barnes
Producing Director
GRSF
I spent the weekend in Orange County, California, home of my undergraduate alma mater, California State University-Fullerton and on this mid-November weeken ... FULL STORY
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| Packing up in our nations capital (10/15/2008) |
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by Paul Barnes
Producing Director
Great River Shakespeare Festival
Henry IV, Part 1, the production Ive been directing at the Folger Theatre here in Washington, D.C., played its sixth preview pe ... FULL STORY
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| Hello from Washington, D.C. (09/10/2008) |
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by Paul Barnes
My post-Winona/GRSF fifth anniversary season travels have landed me in our nations capital, where I am about to begin rehearsals for Shakespeares Henry IV, Part 1 at the Folger The ... FULL STORY
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| SMART goals bring Comprehensive Plan alive (08/24/2008) |
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By Paul Durand --
As we begin the new school year we have an opportunity to set many goals that will help us improve your area public schools. Since October 2007 parents, staff, faculty, business/community leaders and ... FULL STORY
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| What I learned (08/03/2008) |
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FROM: PAUL BARNES
Its the morning of my departure from Winona; my apartment at WSUs East Lake complex is mostly packed up, put into boxes for shipping back to Oregon or storage here in town, and ... FULL STORY
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| Embracing that which is difficult (07/20/2008) |
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From; Paul Barnes
Just as our season brochure warned, "Season Five will be over before we know it." And here we are: one week to go.
We've got final performances of The Taming of the Shrew and ... FULL STORY
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| To retire, or not to retire". (07/16/2008) |
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By Dave DeLano --
The Nation of Cheese is facing a nasty dilemma these days. Anyone living on this side of the planet has no doubt recently read countless accounts of the on-going saga of Brett Favre's retirement/non- ... FULL STORY
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| Success is no surprise at Cotter schools (07/13/2008) |
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From: Craig Junker
President, Cotter Schools
There is no doubt that U.S. high schools need to
make changes in order to better prepare upcoming generations of students for an ever changing, inter ... FULL STORY
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| Back at the front (porch, that is) (07/09/2008) |
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By Paul Barnes --
This week at the Great River Shakespeare Festival is our busiest to date.
We've gotten the plays open, made it through the 4th of July weekend, been able to enjoy two terrific pre-show Prelude Concer ... FULL STORY
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| Thoughts on District 861’s legal fees (07/09/2008) |
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By Paul Durand --
The Winona Area Public Schools is a $49 million a year business with over 700 employees, serving thousands of families. The amount of legal services it needs to purchase varies over time based on the ... FULL STORY
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| Discovering your festival (06/18/2008) |
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It was apparent from the warm response and hearty "welcome back" the GRSF company received at Saturday night's "Chocolate, Shakespeare, and Champagne" benefit for the Winona County Historical Soci ... FULL STORY
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| The man in the truck (05/25/2008) |
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By Paul Barnes
Producing Director
GRSF
It only took a day. As I was leaving our office at 79 E. Third Street at the end of my first day back in Winona, a friendly fellow in a pick-up truck sto ... FULL STORY
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| Response to WEA vote of No Confidence (04/13/2008) |
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By Paul Durand --
Over the past four years I have worked hard as the superintendent of the Winona Area Public Schools to address many issues and unique challenges. All of these efforts have been done publicly and with ... FULL STORY
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| A quantum leap for technology (04/09/2008) |
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By Paul Durand --
For years District #861 has struggled to find ways to provide current technology for our students and staff. This was in large part due to three main factors. First, the high cost of technology and ... FULL STORY
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| What makes a Catholic school Catholic? (01/30/2008) |
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Over the past few years, I have been asked several times about what it means to be a Catholic school. Simply stated, Catholic schools make Christ present every day. As an extension of the Church, edu ... FULL STORY
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| Rigor vs. Rigor Mortis (12/30/2007) |
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By Paul Durand --
Minnesota Governor Pawlenty, and legislative leaders from both parties, have promoted a wide variety of preschool and K-12 education policies and initiatives designed to challenge Minnesota students w ... FULL STORY
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| Promote, Protect and Provide (11/11/2007) |
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Since 1987, area residents have been turning to the Winona Community Foundation to make their philanthropic giving as easy and effective as possible. Over these 20 years the foundation has continued ... FULL STORY
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| Positively Winona series comes to an end (11/07/2007) |
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It's easy to forget how much we have in the Winona area. Sometimes, it takes others to bring it into perspective. Two of my recent experiences illustrate what I mean.
I met a middle-aged Minneapolis ... FULL STORY
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| A great place to grow a business (10/31/2007) |
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Winona is a great place to grow a business. It is a great place to grow a career. Why? Because we have a myriad of companies that are embracing new, innovative ways to define work, how it gets done, a ... FULL STORY
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| A Refuge for all of us (10/24/2007) |
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Over 3.5 million people visited the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge last year creating an economic impact of about 255 million dollars to the adjacent counties. To put the numb ... FULL STORY
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| Futures under construction (10/24/2007) |
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By Paul Durand --
It is a widely held belief that public education is essential to the local economy. Schools are a significant part of the infrastructure of a community, and can have a direct impact on real estate va ... FULL STORY
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| This place is for the birds! (10/17/2007) |
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During the months of September through December, about 40% of all North American migratory birds use the Mississippi Flyway to travel from as far away as the Arctic coast of Alaska to tropical Central ... FULL STORY
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| You can never leave Winona behind (10/03/2007) |
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I'm seldom at a loss for words, but writing this Positively Winona piece is difficult. It's not because there aren't many great things to say about Winona, it's because we're moving.
When I began my ... FULL STORY
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| Winona’s diverse business community (09/26/2007) |
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At least once every week I'm asked why a business should be in Winona. Before I answer I reflect on all the great things that Winona has to offer and then share my answer based on the questioner's ne ... FULL STORY
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| Putting ‘local’ into our food (09/19/2007) |
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We live in a beautiful but demanding landscape. Our bluffs and valleys, marked erratically by the underground channels of karst geology, require a dose a caution amidst their careful management. The r ... FULL STORY
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| Our greatest challenges (09/12/2007) |
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In previous editorials I wrote about the many positive areas identified by our voters in last April's community survey. The Center for Community Opinion conducted this research on behalf of the scho ... FULL STORY
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| A great place to start a small busines (09/05/2007) |
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Winona has wonderful opportunities to start a small business. With its picturesque location, surrounded by bluffs, rivers, and its downtown architecture, Winona is a historic river town that is once a ... FULL STORY
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| True Character (08/29/2007) |
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In difficult times you see true character - for individuals and communities. Over the past week and a half people from all over the country have watched and learned what the Winona area is all about.
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| Living in a CommUniversity (08/22/2007) |
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For a number of years now, I have been thinking about what happens when a university and a community become so closely connected that it is difficult to tell where the university ends and the communit ... FULL STORY
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| Building pride in the downtown (08/15/2007) |
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The Sebos set foot in Cedar Valley and made their new home as Norwegian immigrants on July 4, 1854 (I kid you not...it was the Fourth of July, according to family folklore). Even by Winona standard ... FULL STORY
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| A great place to own a home (08/08/2007) |
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The first question I am often asked these days is, "How is the housing market here? Is it as bad as we hear on the news?" My response is that Winona's market is solid and balanced. While we have ne ... FULL STORY
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| The Front Porch Series (08/08/2007) |
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Washington Post and Newsweek columnist Michael Gerson's recent appearance as the final Front Porch Conversation speaker of the 2007 season at the Great River Shakespeare Festival has generated passion ... FULL STORY
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| Positively organic, Winona! (08/01/2007) |
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I had the pleasure recently of stopping by the Winona Farmers Market for some local organic chicken, fresh fruits and veggies. The number of vendors at the market, many of whom are organic, and the va ... FULL STORY
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| Healthcare ‘sweet spot’ (07/25/2007) |
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During my five-year tenure in Winona, my enchantment with this community has grown " from its people and the diverse business environment to its natural beauty and expanding cultural opportunities. W ... FULL STORY
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| History sells (07/18/2007) |
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It's sometimes easy to overlook what we have in place. Luckily, not everyone turns a blind eye to what the Winona area offers.
I know the organizers of the Great River Shakespeare Festival saw the po ... FULL STORY
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| Current technology important for learning (07/15/2007) |
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On June 21, 2007, a report was made to the Winona Area Public Schools Board of Education outlining many of the technology issues being faced locally and statewide in our public schools. Following are ... FULL STORY
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| Manufacturing in Winona (07/04/2007) |
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Winona has a rich history of manufacturing activity. Not long after it was founded in the mid 1850s, core industries began to develop. One of the earliest and most important at the time was the lumb ... FULL STORY
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| Volunteers make this a better place (06/27/2007) |
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Having lived in the Winona area for 34 years and seeing the quality of life we all enjoy, I feel qualified to share what I see about the area that makes it such a good place to live, work and raise ou ... FULL STORY
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| A quality of life rarely experienced (06/13/2007) |
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While driving into Winona from any direction, you can't help but be in awe when experiencing the theatre of seasons with blazing color in the fall, the stark grey and white beauty found in the winter, ... FULL STORY
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| What better place? (05/16/2007) |
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First in a series of articles promoting Winona to individuals and businesses looking for relocation.
By Mark Metzler
During my first trip between La Crosse and Winona I drove off the road ... FULL STORY
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| Quality schools require current policies (04/01/2007) |
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By Paul Durand --
Although some may feel it unimportant and even a bit boring, a primary function of a local board of education is policy making. The policies developed help govern all aspects of the operations of a s ... FULL STORY
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| Changing Winona school colors (02/11/2007) |
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By Paul Durand --
The ‘ole" orange & black is adding some "green."
It seems to be everywhere. All over the place you can see signs of new interest in the topics of energy conservation, renewable sources and ma ... FULL STORY
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| Fortune favors the prepared mind (01/28/2007) |
by CRAIG JUNKER
President, Cotter Schools
During the industrial age in America, schools were fashioned in the image of assembly lines. Schools took on the look and feel of mechanistic structure ... FULL STORY
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Happy New Year
How to make it to 2007! (12/31/2006) |
by DAVE BRAND
Winona County Sheriff
Before you head out to all of those New Year's Eve parties, please remember not to drink and drive. Designate a driver before you leave the house if your out ... FULL STORY
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