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KNSI News (KNSI) – St. Cloud has proposed selling the soon-to-be-vacated city hall to a developer with plans to bulldoze the building and replace it with commercial office space. St. Cloud City Hall is moving from the building on the corner of 2nd Street South (Division Street) and 4th Avenue South to the former Tech High School. St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis told KNSI News the council received three proposals on Monday with two turning city hall into housing and one that would use the land for ...

ST. CLOUD – Planning agencies are resurrecting a decades-old plan to implement a highway system around the St. Cloud metro and construct a new bridge crossing the Mississippi River on the south side of town. The proposed beltline and bridge would help improve mobility and reduce congestion, according to Brian Gibson, executive director of the St. Cloud Area Planning Organization. "Right now, ...

Jazz in the Afternoon is celebrating its 40th anniversary all year in 2021 on KIOS. Our focus on some of the notable jazz recordings from 1981 continues on Friday this week with music from the Oscar Petersons "Nigerian Marketplace".  Jazz in the Afternoon was launched by the late Adrianne Pressley in 1981. She was also the co-host of the weekly program Love Notes with Preston Love. Adriennes love of jazz ran deep and she shared her knowledge with students enrolled in the radio broadcast progra...

District 742 Using Remaining Bond Funds for Various Projects ST. CLOUD -- The St. Cloud Area School District will be using up some remaining funds to address high-priority projects over the next few years. The board approved the funding for a number of projects for which there is no other funding source at Wednesdays meeting. On the list are secure entrances at Discovery, Oak Hill, Talahi, and Clearview elementary schools, alarm door access systems, an additional music space at Apollo High Sch...

The St. Cloud Area School District now has a more permanent plan for their gymnastics program.

Print article Coronavirus outbreaks at numerous Mat-Su schools that started last week prompted officials at six schools to shift to remote learning again for at least part of this week. Colony Middle School, Colony High School and Pioneer Peak Elementary are closed for in-person learning this week. The three schools shifted to remote learning last Wednesday. As of Tuesday, officials were reporting 21, 23 and 32 staff or students testing positive for COVID-19 at each school, respectively. Pal...

Print article Were making this important information available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider supporting independent journalism in Alaska, at just $1.99 for the first month of your subscription. Mat-Su schools are pausing all activities through Sunday due to rapidly accelerating numbers of COVID-19 cases linked to sports and other events. At one school alone, officials say, public health workers have identified 180 ...

Liberty High School had a higher graduation rate than Kern High District's overall graduation rate at 95.8 percent, according to the California Department of Education

An alternative learning program in the St. Cloud Area School District will soon have a permanent home.

Zoom School Gets an F, But Some Online Learning Providers Excel Students in 40 percent of school districts across the country haven’t been inside a classroom since last spring, and others are now returning to virtual “Zoom school” as coronavirus cases rise. Remote public schooling as a response to school shutdowns has been a disaster for many children, with a record number of F grades issued this academic year. Both parents and kids are fed up with Zoom school, and teachers are fru...