By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

Talking to students about health issues, including puberty or HIV and AIDS can be a tough topic. This year, nurses in the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District have taken the topic off the shoulders of classroom teachers.  

Bernie Bien, the nurse at Hidden Valley and Harriet Bishop elementary schools, said nurses are natural teachers on “the sensitive topic.”

By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

A lively game of bowling outside the door is drowned out by Kaylee Snyder’s steady voice. Rich Meuwissen takes short breaths, careful not to make too much noise. Nothing interrupts Mondays with Rich.

By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

There will be an information night at Envision Academy of the Arts  at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 16, at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center, 12600 Nicollet Ave., Burnsville.

Prior Lake-Savage Area Community Education Services and Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Community Education will co-sponsor two events that feature Pam Smieja, a domestic abuse survivor, speaking about her experiences.

StringWerks, Burnsville’s Youth Orchestra Program, will present a winter concert at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, March 20 in the Mraz Center at Burnsville High School, 600 E. Highway 13, Burnsville.

This year’s carnival at M.W. Savage Elementary School, 4819 W. 126th St., Savage, is set for Saturday, March 20 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

The event is open to the public and includes games, prizes, inflatable bouncers, a raffle and a silent auction. 

For the 16th time since 1992, students from Burnsville High School qualified to participate in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) — the premiere science competition in the world for students in ninth through 12th grade.

By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

Call it “Option Innovation.”

After months of discussions on elementary school boundary changes, members of the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School Board rallied around an option Thursday night (March 4) that keeps all current boundaries in place.