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Children must be 4 years old, on or before Sept. 1, 2021. Space is limited, but applications are constantly opened and new students are constantly being brought in. The pre-K program offers a 3-hour and 15-minute free morning program daily. They also have an Enrichment Program for $60 per week. With the Enrichment Program and the free VPK program, hours run about 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily. Jennifer Lathem-Walters, the VPK and ESE pre-K coordinator, said pre-K is an important time for young ch...

ALBION — The Noble County Commissioners gave their blessings to the Noble County Health Department’s search for a centralized location to give the coronavirus vaccine — whenever that will be. “There’s a lot of unknowns on how this is going to roll out,” Noble County Health Nurse Cheryl Brown said. What Brown knows for sure — and that can change by the hour she told the commissioners — is that the first doses of the vaccine to be received by Noble County w...

Children know: It’s been a tough year. Nearly 200 of them from across the region wrote letters to Helping Hands this fall on behalf of someone who’s had a particularly hard 2020. Each of the student’s letters described how they would use $200 to help someone else. Helping Hands, sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journal with the support of generous donations from readers, selected more than three dozen of those letters, and you’ll find excerpts from them here. All of the writ...