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The New Richmond School Board has three elementary schools with national honors.

For the fourth year in a row, the Starr Elementary community’s main Thanksgiving dish will be barbeque.

NEW RICHMOND -- Based on feedback from parents and staff collected as part of the Tiger Launch Plan, the New Richmond School Board revised its mask policy on May 12, making face coverings optional on district property beginning with the start of summer school on June 7.  Despite the revision, a handful of residents protested against the mask mandate prior to the board’s May 17 meeting. The residents confronted New Richmond Superintendent Patrick Olson, who was assisted by two police off...

A Grand Island Public Schools elementary principal has been recognized as Nebraska’s outstanding new principal of the year. Jefferson Elementary Principal Sheree Stockwell was honored Dec. 10 with the Nebraska Association of Elementary School Principals’ Outstanding New Principal of the Year Award at the Nebraska Council of School Administrators’ State Principals Conference, which took place virtually this year due to COVID-19. Stockwell said she was told around Thanksgiving that...