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In an attempt to provide students with flexible time to tend to their academic needs and also enjoy some unscheduled time in the middle of the day, Forest Lake Area High School administrators conducted a trial run of what is being called Ranger Hour.
Ranger Hour is a one-hour period in the middle of the day that allows students to eat lunch and spend time engaging in a variety of different academic and extracurricular activities.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“This is 60 minutes in the middle of the day that will allow students to study, connect, enjoy lunch, and recharge,” high school Assistant Principal Justin Sawyer said. “This is similar to a college schedule where not every minute of every day is planned for you.”
During Ranger Hour, teachers will have a 30-minute open office time where students can meet to form study groups, work on homework, read and makeup or redo exams. The gym will also

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FLAHS landscaping students plant plants they grew from seeds during a field trip to the Forest Lake/Comfort Lake Watershed District office.
On May 25, the Comfort Lake-Forest Lake Watershed District collaborated with Prairie Restorations to host a field trip for Mike Miron’s Forest Lake Area High School landscaping class to the watershed district office.
“The CLFLWD purchased a variety of native plant seeds from Prairie Restorations in February,” watershed program assistant Mike Sorensen said. “Students from Forest Lake High School and the Forest Lake Area Learning Center grew the seeds in the schools’ greenhouses over the late-winter and early-spring.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
The May 25 excursion coincided with the plants having grown to plug size. Students from FLAHS used the plants to improve existing native planting projects at the district office and at the city of Forest Lake-owned dead end street by Gator Signs at 2nd Ave. NE.
Jeff West, the manager of the Scandia office of

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Jessica Keck, Forest Lake, earned a place on the President’s List at Bob Jones University.
Glendon Miron, Courtney Roatch, and Katherine Urmann or Forest Lake graduated May 12 from Minnesota State University-Moorhead.
Matthew Palo, Forest Lake, and Robert Beynon, Wyoming, graduated from Michigan Tech University.
Chidyaonga Shalita, Forest Lake, graduated from Macalester College.
Adam Bjorqacker, Forest Lake, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Jack Ebel, Caitlin Freer, Lauren Johnsen, Daniel Kezar, Daniel Massey, Chase McNamara, and Shelby Miller, Forest Lake, and Alex Lieder, Wyoming, have earned a spot on the dean’s list at St. Cloud University.
Mackenzie Lopp, Forest Lake, earned a spot on the dean’s list at St. Catherine University-St. Paul.
Katherine Schaaf, Scandia, earned a spot on the dean’s list at Michigan Tech University.
Jade Haseltine, Forest Lake, graduated from Concordia College.
Ariel Sievers, Forest Lake, received the North Dakota State University Provost’s Scholarship in the amount of $6,000.
Brandon Weigel, Scandia, graduated from Iowa State University.
Kimberly Howard,

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
Preliminary Platbroadstreet.zone(48036);
Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held by the City of Columbus Planning Commission on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as parties may be heard, in the City Hall located at 16319 Kettle River Blvd., Columbus, Minnesota, to consider a request for a preliminary plat Bituminous Roadways Columbus combining two (2) lots and creating two (2) new lots. The hearing shall continue until all evidence and testimony has been received.
Applicant: Bituminous Roadways (Kent Peterson)
Property Owners:
I-35s Business Park, LLC
MNLandspec, LLCbroadstreet.zone(50962);
ZAMZOW Holdings, LLC
Property Location: 13345 & 13363 West Freeway Drive, Columbus MN
Legal Description:
PIN# 36-32-22-34-0003 (5.0)
THAT PRT OF N 490 FT OF S 1360 FT OF E1/2 OF SW1/4 SEC 36-32-22 LYG W OF E 600 FT THEREOF, ELY OF ELY R/W LINE OF WEST FREEWAY DR NE (AKA CSAH NO 21) & SELY OF SELY R/W

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