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Students at Eveleth-Gilbert High School heard from different career women about the challenges and opportunities they faced getting to where they are in the workforce.

VIRGINIA — This is a milestone year — both locally and globally — for the volunteer organization known as Soroptimist. The Virginia Soroptimist Club, the only remaining one in northeastern Minnesota, is celebrating its 65th anniversary of helping to improve the lives of women and girls in the community — something it has been doing since it was chartered in 1956. Soroptimist International, formed in 1921 in Oakland, California, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Launched at a time when until then women were not permitted to join service organizations, the global entity ...