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Food service director Mary Dingrando may be hoping for the weather to break so she can put a barbecue grill into service at Suttons Bay Public Schools.
Over the weekend, Dingrando continued to battle kitchen equipment breakdowns that have plagued her d
Proposed expenses of $430,175 were identified for the planned Suttons Bay Montessori Academy at Monday’s workshop meeting of the Suttons Bay Board of Education.
Hadley Vukasovich represented the Leelanau Montessori Parents at the meeting Monday night a
A state report that compares local, state and federal revenue received by public school districts was discussed Monday night by board members at Leland Public School, whose superintendent warned of looming “catastrophic” cuts in state funding.
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Enrollment at the county’s four public schools has dropped by 3.1 percent in the last year as the state economy continues to languish.
There was a net drop of 69 students from 2009 recorded in the Feb. 10 state school count, with the bulk of the decrea
The sweet smell of success came in the form of a “gardenia” for Glen Lake seventh-grader Skylar Gleason, who was crowned the Leelanau County Spelling Bee champion Tuesday for the second straight year.
Gleason clinched the title by outlasting 36 other c
More than a dozen Leland elementary students will be featured Friday and Saturday in a series of vignettes from children’s author Shel Silverstein’s collection of children’s poetry, Where the Sidewalk Ends.
The students, in grades 3-6, have been rehear
The tradition of recognizing the top scholar of a class based solely on grade point average (GPA) has gone by the wayside at one county school.
The Glen Lake Board of Education voted Monday night to do away with its system of ranking students, which ha
Three candidates are seeking two seats available on the Northport Board of Education in the May 4 election.
It represents the only contested election in the county in which school board seats which will decided.
Incumbent Northport board president D
Glen Lake and St. Mary schools crowned spelling bee champions last week.
Molly Flerlage, an eighth-grader at Glen Lake, won the school bee by correctly spelling “centennial.” Earlier, classmate Erika Bailey spelled “psychoanalysis” in a one-round playo
Achievement by at-risk students who participated in a mathematics laboratory in the first semester of the 2009-10 school year was a point of pride at Monday’s meeting of the Leland Board of Education.
Principal Jason Stowe told board members that all 3
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