Everyone who attended a one-room school in the Rolla area is invited to attend a reunion Friday, May 25, at Matt’s Steak House.
Barbara Behlmann is a homecoming queen, a cheerleader and clearly one of the most popular students at Hazelwood West High School in suburban St. Louis.
East Central College trustees approved an $18,014,000 budget at their meeting Monday for the new fiscal year that begins July 1.
Excitement. Pride. Fear. Courage.
Those were the four words Newburg High School Valedictorian Hannah Yelton used to describe her feelings about leaving the school and joining the world during the school’s commencement exercises Sunday afternoon.
Fifth and sixth grade students at Rolla Middle School were given the right to vote Tuesday, and it didn't take an amendment to the constitution to make it happen.
Since her arrival the first week of April, Missouri S&T's new chancellor, Dr. Cheryl B. Schrader, has been on a non-stop journey discovering the university, the community and the people of Rolla.
The judging and banquet of sixteen finalists, for the Rural Electric Youth Tour to Washington D.C. and the Cooperative Youth Conference & Leadership Experience (CYCLE) in Jefferson City, was held May 1 at Dixon High School. The sixteen finalists along with their families, school representatives, the Gascosage Board of Directors and Gascosage employees attended the banquet dinner.
Missouri S&T graduates have learned all the skills they need to thrive in life, commencement speaker Sandra Magnus, a school alumna, said Saturday.
The student population at the University of Missouri is expected to continue growing.
April 18 the Rolla Area Chamber of Commerce recognized the Rolla Senior High School 2012 graduating class of Show-Me Scholars. There were 28 graduating seniors recognized for their accomplishments. In addition, the Rolla Chamber presented four of the 28 students with $1,000 scholarships.
If all goes well, a rover designed and built by students at Missouri University of Science and Technology will be maneuvering through rocky red terrain in the summer of 2013.
The Rolla High School Prom will be held on May 12 at the Rolla Junior High from 8 p.m.-midnight.
Pictured from left are: Kenny Barnes, Community President at Rolla South; Darlene Bramel, Truman Elementary Principal and Eugene Stevenson, Community President at Rolla North with a check for nearly $700 that will go toward the Truman Elementary School playground equipment.
A Missouri high school has canceled the school band's costly summer trip to Hawaii after the company that organized the trip — and had already collected about $360,000 — stopped communicating with the school.
Ron Smith has been a fixture at the Newburg Board of Education meetings for twelve years, and April 17 he said goodbye but not farewell.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a nationally recognized time dedicated to raising awareness about and promoting prevention of sexual violence. During this month, Phelps County Family Crisis Services and the Russell House will be joining with people throughout the state and the nation to focus the public’s attention on this issue.
Missouri University of Science and Technology has a new honor fraternity as of April 20.
The Rolla Patriots Robotics team is headed to the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis today to participate in the FIRST Championship. FIRST stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.
During the competition, teams of up to 10 students are responsible for designing, building and programming their robot to compete with and against other teams from across the country and other parts of the world including Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, India, China, Romania, South Korea and Saudi Arabia.
The Rolla Daily News asked team advisor Leigh Ann Tumbrink to tell us more about the competition and the team.
