By Nancy Huddleston, Editor

As the adults gathered in the living room at the newly-finished home on Hampshire Avenue, children’s laughter filtered in amongst the hum of the conversations.

Ira and Francie Pankratz of Hallock, Minn., announce the birth of their daughter, Aubree McKaya Pankratz, who was born Nov. 6, 2008 at Altru Hospital in Grand Forks, N.D.

She weighed 7 pounds 15.7 ounces and was 21 inches long.

By Nancy Huddleston, Editor

Annette Grant’s dream of success with the Dan Patch Coffee Depot is coming to an end this weekend.

The Prior Lake-Savage Area School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, in the large conference room at the District Services Center, 4540 Tower St., Prior Lake.

The tentative agenda includes:

Call to order by the chairperson

Prior Lake-Savage Early Childhood Family Education winter registration starts soon. The winter 2009 catalog will be mailed the week of Dec,1.

Join the Prior Lake-Savage Family Center for a winter celebration from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Dec.

By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

The possibility of a performing arts magnet school in the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District may have walked away, literally.

At Thursday night’s (Nov. 20) meeting, Vice Chairman Ron Hill and Board Member Nancy Banyard both left the table when a motion they didn’t agree with was presented. With them, they took a quorum.

By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

High school honors courses should be filled with the brightest minds possible. But when some teachers noticed a lack of a true representation of the district’s demographics in advanced courses, they set out to do something about it.