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Meeting to be held virtually online Monday Written By: Erik Kaufman | × Mitchell Technical College. The Mitchell Board of Education will consider purchasing equipment for the Mitchell Technical College fitness center and set school administrator compensation Monday. The agenda items will be addressed at the Monday, April 12 meeting of the board, which is scheduled to be held virtually. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. The board will consider compensation for 14 memb...

Bid for $376,000 comes in from Bespoke Properties, LLC Written By: Erik Kaufman | × The Mitchell Board of Education Wednesday approved a bid for the purchase of the house built by Mitchell Technical College students as part of the Architectural Drafting and Building Construction program. The house, pictured here and located at 2103 Dean Drive in Mitchell, was purchased by Bespoke Properties, LLC in Mitchell. (Submitted Photo) The 107th house built by Mitchell Technical College ...

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Graves: Putnam was the thoughtful thinker Institutional memory is so valuable that its loss is painful, visceral. Thus, when Neil Putnam shared with me his intent to not run again for the Mitchell School Board my heart sank a bit. Written By: Joe Graves | × When the Library of Alexandria burned, it is said even the most illiterate denizens of the Classical World mourned. This scriptorium of tens — and perhaps hundreds-of-thousands of scrolls was considered to be...

Vaccines to be offered at district buildings through Lewis Drug Written By: Erik Kaufman | × A vial and sryinge are seen in front of a displayed Johnson & Johnson logo in this illustration taken Jan. 11. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo) The long-awaited start of getting vaccines to teachers will begin this week when Lewis Drug is expected to administer the shots to school employees starting Thursday, the Mitchell Board of Education heard at its most recent meeting M...

RACINE — “Fifty seconds,” said Christine Emmons, teacher at Horlick High School, as she counted down to zero on her phone’s timer in the waiting area of the vaccination clinic at Ascension All Saints Hospital. Teachers sit socially distanced in the clinic after receiving their vaccinations at Ascension All Saints Hospital on Saturday. There is a 15-minute observation period after patients get their vaccine, said Margaret Hennessy, pediatrics physician at All Saints. Hennessy...

Speed of vaccine distribution dictated by supply, health officials say Written By: Erik Kaufman | × Mrs. Katie Murphy takes a paper from one of her students during Spanish class on recently at Mitchell High School. (Matt Gade / Republic) The vaccination drive is underway. Since the approval of several vaccines for the virus that causes COVID-19, the deadly respiratory disease that has killed over a half-million people in the United States alone dating back to early 2020, states...

It couldn’t have come at a better time. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered deaths and hardships across the country and the world in 2020 and there was no business as usual. Schools, businesses, restaurants, sports teams and others were forced to go virtual and struggled to maintain their operations in a ghost world of Zoom and remote contacts instead of the old face-to-face communication. That applied to charity drives as well, including the United Way of Racine County, which had to go to a v...

Posted on 194 After an academic year like no other, Destinations Career Academy of Oregon (ORDCA), a full-time online public-school academy serving students in grades 9-12 throughout the state, is welcoming students to enroll for the 2021-2022 school year. ORDCA is the state leader in providing safe, alternative education options, while giving your student a personalized experience and providing them with what they need to succeed. O...

For three weeks, staff members engaged in conversations about how to use such a huge sum. Haigh The idea of “equity” was weighing heavily on the staff, said Ali Haigh, president and CEO of United Way of Racine County. “2020 was a year of transition for us,” Haigh said. “We saw a decrease in our core campaign funding, but we saw an increase in non-campaign funds,” with those non-campaign funds being largely directed toward COVID-19 pandemic response. The $5 million ...