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School news -- Prior Lake-Savage Area


Register for Summer Theater Workshop

The 10th annual Summer Theater Workshop will be held at the Prior Lake High auditorium, 7575 150th St., Savage from June 9 to 13. 

Students entering grades seven through nine will meet from 9 to 11:30 a.m. on those dates. Students entering grades three through six will meet from 12:30 to 3 p.m.

The Summer Theater Workshop costs $45 per student. Scholarships are available.


District 719 School Board to review referendum survey results

Results of a survey gauging public views on a school referendum will go to the Prior Lake-Savage Area School Board for review on Monday, May 19.

The board will meet at 6 p.m. at the District Services Center, 4540 Tower St., Prior Lake, to discuss the results of the survey conducted by Springsted Inc.


Knowledge Bowl team finishes second at state

By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent 

The Prior Lake High School Knowledge Bowl team exceeded expectations this year finishing second in the Division AA State Knowledge Bowl Tournament held at Cragun’s Resort in Brainerd April 17-18.


PLHS Student Council presented with Outstanding Council award

By Shawn Hogendorf, Correspondent 

The Prior Lake High School Student Council received the Outstanding Student Council award during the State Student Council Convention held April 11 to 13 in Marshall.


Jeffers Elementary students pitch in for Arbor Day

By Joanna Miller, Correspondent

Students grabbed shovels and dug in during a combined Earth Day and Arbor Day event at Jeffers Pond Elementary School Wednesday.


Tiniest volunteer gets the job done

By Joanna Miller, Correspondent

Parker Baines may be small, but this tiny PTC Carnival volunteer was a huge help to his mom Gale when planning for the April 19 event.


District 719: Students craft Earth Day poems

WestWood Elementary second-grade students put their Earth Day thoughts into poetic form. Here are the winning Earth Day poems:

Colored Earth

Silver clouds
Gold sun
Lime grass
Copper trees
Rainbow earth

by Teagan Tersteeg
Age 8
Prior Lake

Nature's Gifts


April 21, 2008 - 12:14pm
Ottoson receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Carol Ottoson, the Prior Lake High School play director and speech team coach, talks about her experiences working with the high school theater program after accepting the Patrons of the Arts and Activities Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday night. Ottoson has directed dozens of plays and coached the speech team for years. This is the second Lifetime Achievement Award the Patrons of the Arts and Activities gave out this year.


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PLHS Student Council receives highest award

The Prior Lake High School Student Council received an award for Outstanding Student Council during the state student council convention last weekend in Marshall, Minn.

The award is only offered to four student councils in the state.


April 18, 2008 - 10:45am
Celebrating partnerships

Cara Rieckenberg, left, Fergus Wooley and Nancy Allen-Mastro, learn tidbits about one another during the 2008 ISD 719 Partnership Recognition and Celebration Dinner at Glendale Elementary in Savage, Thursday evening.


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