M. W. Savage Elementary School hosted an Oscar awards ceremony Thursday afternoon as a staff appreciation event. Students voted on a variety of categories including best actor (best teacher), best musical score (best music teacher) and the highest honor - best picture, which went to Principal Ron Cin. The whole school gathered in the gym for the "red carpet" event where Student Council members donned black top hats and escorted the award winners.

On a crisp and sunny April 29, a group of Dan Patch Historical Society members were caught on camera on their way to hold a small ceremony at Dan Patch's burial site in remembrance of his 112th birthday. The site of Dan's grave is a tightly-guarded secret. Pictured here (from left to right) are George Augustinack, Jens Bohn and Jim Ross. The trio carried a picture of Dan and one of his horseshoes, a floral arrangement, binoculars and a shovel to make a spot for the flowers. (submitted photo)

Junior third baseman Brooke Traetow and the Burnsville softball team will go for their ninth win in their last 10 games today, May 7 when it travels to Rosemount for a Lake Conference game at 4:15 p.m. The Blaze is 8-2 overall, 7-2 in the conference. Burnsville will travel to Bloomington Jefferson on Thursday, May 8 for a conference game and will close out the regular season next week at home against Bloomington Kennedy (May 12) and at Lakeville South (May 14) for a doubleheader. The Section 3AAA tournament will start May 21.

Midstate Reclamation and Trucking started on the first of many "green" aspects of the McColl Pond Environmental Learning Center (ELC) on Tuesday morning by reclaiming the asphalt parking lot where the center will be located on the west side of Community Park. The material ground up during the process will be used on the site for trails and the parking lot. (Staff photo by Nancy Huddleston)

Mohamed Duale speaks to a group that gathered Monday morning to celebrate the groundbreaking of a Habitat for Humanity Home on Hampshire Avenue in south Savage. Duale and his wife, Queen Hanshi, and their children Hamsa, Hassan, Hosni, Hudefa and Abdirahim have been selected to move into the home when it is finished later this year. Site work is expected to get under way this week. (Staff photo by Nancy Huddleston)