Choosing a career

Ann Murphy, a volunteer with the American Red Cross talks to students at St. Patrick School Thursday afternoon during the school’s annual career day. The students — dressed as doctors, scientists, clergy, athletes and other professionals — spent an hour learning about their career options.

School board meeting Thursday

Several policy revisions will be considered by the Rolla Board of Education Thursday night.

RHS Boys Basketball vs. Lebanon

Missouri system eyes tuition increase

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri system wants to increase tuition next year by 7.5 percent at its Columbia campus and even more at its campuses in St. Louis and Rolla.

Making his voice heard

If you talk to any one of Missouri University of Science and Technology’s 7,000 students, you are likely to hear a common worry about tuition hikes. One of those students is taking his worries — and his voice — a step beyond everyday conversation.

PHOTO GALLERY: String Quartet Master Class

Members of the Pro Arte Quartet hosted a master class with members of the Missouri S&T string quartet before Pro Arte's performance Monday evening.

This week is School Board Appreciation Week

Missourians benefit every day from the dedicated energies and countless hours devoted by a group of more than 3,600 men and women in every community across the state.

Phelps County R-III closed Friday

Students attending Phelps County R-III in Edgar Springs will be getting an day off from school Friday, but for many of them, it won’t be very fun.

This Week in Sports

Concrete conference to be held at Missouri S&T

Missouri University of Science and Technology will host the annual Missouri Concrete Conference April 26-27 in the Havener Center on campus.
Conference registration is $130 per person. Attendees to the American Concrete Institute luncheon are asked to pre-register online at concrete.mst.edu. The cost for the luncheon is $18 per person.

Acclaimed artist offers workshops

Two bold and expressive Chinese art forms will be explored in two workshops taught by visiting Weiner Distinguished Professor Dr. Lampo Leong this spring at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

School program offers hope

Stories of despair turned to hope were shared with the Rolla Board of Education Thursday night by faculty members of the Early Childhood Special Education program.

A message of hope for Joplin

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Ball High Prep students, Ball High School students and other community volunteers wanted to send hope to tornado-stricken Joplin, Mo.

Students’ art shown on Internet

Work by young artists at Wyman Elementary School is posted in an Internet art gallery called Artsonia, and can be purchased on tee-shirts, coffee mugs or simply as a print.

Principal Ron Reagan to retire

After being a presence at Newburg R-II Schools for 21 years, Newburg Elementary Principal Ron Reagan will step foot in the familiar building on Wolf Pride Drive as a parent, but not as a faculty member next fall.

Education standards changing

Rolla students, even those in the earliest grades, will start reading more non-fiction, and they’ll learn to write opinions based on reasoning, evidence and facts.

Joe Paterno won't be loved or hated; he will be forgotten

For at least 30 years, Joe Paterno was praised as not only an iconic football coach, but as Mr. Values himself. He stayed in one isolated place and coached a team with the plainest uniforms in sports. The media portrayed that as an extension of Joe Paterno's ideals himself, that the all-time winningest coach in college football cared nothing about himself and only about his team. He was made to stand for all that was good and right in college football against a rising tide of commercialism and egotism.

New communication policy

In response to a controversial law passed by the Missouri Legislature this fall, the Newburg R-II School Board unanimously passed a policy governing electronic communication between staff and students Thursday night.

CORE enriches young students

Founded in 1991 by then-Superintendent of Schools Dr. D. Kent King, CORE, the Champions of Rolla, has enriched the lives of thousands of students in Rolla Public Schools.

Cheryl Schrader named S&T Chancellor

A glass ceiling was shattered on the campus of Missouri University of Science and Technology Thursday afternoon when University of Missouri System President Timothy Wolfe announced Dr. Cheryl Schrader as the next chancellor.

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