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		<title>Butterfield School Board accepts resignations</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130523/NEWS/130529764/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 10:52:38</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tyson Hill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the action item portion of the meeting, the school board accepted the resignation of Linda Resick. Resick is a bus driver for the district and will be moving out of the district at the end of the school year. The board accepted Resick&#8217;s resignation unanimously and thanked her for her service. They will be advertising for the position in the near future.]]></description>
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		<title>School Board hears from community about reassigning teacher</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130521/NEWS/130519656/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug DeDecker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Approximately 25 St. James students from grades six through ten peaceably assembled at the high school parking lot to protest the possible reassignment of sixth grade teacher Kyle Blomgren to second grade. The students marched from the high school down Armstrong Blvd. to Armstrong School where the students attended the School Board meeting. Story on the School Board monthly meeting inside. See a video of the protest march on our website - stjamesnews.com]]></description>
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		<title>St. James area alumni graduate college</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130519/NEWS/130519673/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graduates of St. James High School have begun graduating from colleges.]]></description>
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		<title>Ambassadors promote service within school</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130515/NEWS/130509470/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ambassadors are made up of seven students from grades five and six who come together once a week to focus on promoting positive attitudes in the school.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo: Math Masters</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130509477/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daevon Anderson, Hunter Helling, Isaac Carstensen, Briar Lenz, Jaime Hernandez-Portillo, students at St. James Northside School, participated in the regional Math Masters of Minnesota Challenge at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minn., April 26, 2013.  The team advisor is Beth Christiansen. About 145 students competed in the competition.  Math Masters is designed to promote excellence in critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities as well as provide recognition to students for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. James area alumni graduating college</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130513/NEWS/130509479/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following area students are scheduled for graduation this spring:<br>Jessica Ziegler, St. James, Minnesota West Community and Technical College Jackson/Online<br>Shilo Linscheid, Butterfield, Minnesota West Community and Technical College Worthington<br>Melissa Nachreiner, Saint James, Minnesota West Community and Technical College Worthington<br>Cindy Schmitz, St. James, Minnesota West Community and Technical College Worthington]]></description>
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		<title>St. Paul's Summer Program to begin June 3</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130509/NEWS/130509536/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 9:06:56</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve White</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Summer Program will run every Monday through Friday for the entire summer.  The program will run from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., and will mostly use St. Paul&#8217;s and Southside Park as its facilities.  Children may be dropped off and picked up anytime in between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.]]></description>
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		<title>St. James Prom Saturday</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130502/NEWS/130509894/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 9:05:41</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The St. James High School Prom celebration will take place this  Saturday May 4.<br>The event is taking place at the St. James High school gym. Grand March begins at 8 p.m. and the theme of the night is &#8220;Welcome to Pandora.&#8221; Admission for the public is three dollars.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo: National Honors Society</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130427/NEWS/130429744/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Honor Society at St. James High School welcomed thirteen new members at an induction ceremony held Sunday afternoon. New members are: Front Row (L to R) Regina Dougherty, Lorena Hernandez, Ashley Lahti, Ana San Miguel Esqueda, Emily Bottem, Liz Reckow and Julia Boeve. Back Row (L to R) Andrew Kinnetz, Colin Hoppe, Luke Tonsager, Cole Skow, David Bradley and John Foss.]]></description>
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		<title>Bass of St. James graduates from Southwest Minnesota State University</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130425/NEWS/130429788/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 9:19:17</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. James graduate Shane Ray Bass is scheduled to graduate May 11, with a Bachelor of Science in computer science Magna Cum Laude (3.50-3.79). Bass will graduate with 639 of his classmates from Southwest Minnesota State University.]]></description>
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		<title>Students rally to take tests!</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130423/NEWS/130419548/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug DeDecker
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		<description><![CDATA[The highlight of the rally was a skit performed by teacher Jill Stark starring in the role of Evil Informer and Northside Assistant Principal Mike Fugazzi starring as super hero Strategy Man!]]></description>
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		<title>Butterfield-Odin looks at school calendar</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130423/NEWS/130419554/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tyson Hill
St. James Plaindealer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some school board members raised questions regarding the Mondays off in February and March, saying &#8220;it&#8217;s hard as a parent to find someone to watch your kids,&#8221; and &#8220;my concern is with the children &#8211; that they are getting their proper education with missing class.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Decline in shop class offerings blamed for lack of manufacturing workers</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130416/NEWS/130419829/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Those are considered elective classes in almost every school system. And electives right now are on the endangered species list.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Monthly School Board covers many important issues</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130414/NEWS/130419838/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug DeDecker
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		<description><![CDATA[The sports conference realignment push proceeded when the Board unanimously approved to make a formal request to the Gopher Conference to have all the sports of SJA participate in that conference.<br>    Several Board members expressed their reservation about making this move. Michelle Mohlenbrock said that the original push was to have football only move into another conference or arrangement. She seemed reluctant to make a move that would involve all sports. In the end the Board did approve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scholarship Created </title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130410/SPORTS/130409698/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A KYLE KOPISCHKE MEMORIAL BASEBALL SCHOLARSHIP is being created.<br>    This is an educational scholarship through the Comfrey Area Dollars for Scholars program, Comfrey Public    School.]]></description>
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		<title>MLC Speech Results</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130407/NEWS/130409721/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Sun, 7 Apr 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 23, in New Ulm the MLC Speech Team participated in a tournament with more than 350 participants from 19 schools.]]></description>
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		<title>Robotics team wins innovative design award</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130331/NEWS/130329457/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They evaluated their last season and started planning their future. The team discussed what their favorite part of robotics is and they were evenly divided between designing, programming and competition.]]></description>
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		<title>Scholarship Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130331/NEWS/130329458/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Vaillancourt </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are committed to investing in the future of agriculture and believe that empowered leaders are the key to finding solutions for challenges facing the modern grower. We wish all scholarship applicants the best of luck and look forward to their contributions to the future of sugarbeets.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>St. James Student Internship Program</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130325/NEWS/130329829/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What: St. James Student Internship Business Lunch and Learn<br>Where: St. James Library<br>When: Thursday, April 4, 2013<br>Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.<br>RSVP: Required by March 29, 2013 to Molly Westman at (507) 375-1289 or<br>molly.westman@ci.stjames.mn.us<br>Cost: Free &#8211; Lunch provided]]></description>
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		<title>It's time to reduce disparities in Minnesota's Educational System</title>
		<link>http://www.stjamesnews.com/article/20130324/NEWS/130329836/1004/NEWS?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 8:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hector Garcia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 2010, the Chicano Latino Affairs Council (CLAC) has consulted with education experts nationwide. We have performed research on programs that have significantly improved graduation rates of Latinos and reduced disparities between and within schools.]]></description>
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