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WELLMAN
The Mid-Prairie school board met for a two-hour closed session Monday night in response to notification that the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners (BOEE) “found probable cause to …
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By Cheryl Allen |
7/2/24 01:14 AM
WELLMAN
On April 5, Mid-Prairie’s future problem solvers headed to Central College in Pella to compete in the State Bowl competition. Five of them walked away with awards.
High schoolers …
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By Cheryl Allen and Jeff Yoder |
5/3/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
For middle and high school students attending Pathway, Hillcrest Academy, and Mid-Prairie schools (including the home school), the time has come to get out their cameras and submit photos …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/21/24 08:00 AM
WASHINGTON
It’s hard to know if Gov. Kim Reynolds knew she was igniting a firestorm when she proposed overhauling Iowa’s Area Education Agencies (AEA) in her Condition of the State address a …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/14/24 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
Mid-Prairie students and staff may have enjoyed three snow days in January when over two feet of snow buried the area in a single week, but they may not enjoy making that time up quite as …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/14/24 08:00 AM
KALONA We may live in small towns where the pace of life is more relaxed, but that doesn’t mean that nothing happens. We are always in motion, tearing down the old, building the new, and …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/3/24 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
The coach was new. The assistant coach was new. Of the 11 girls, only two were upperclasswomen. When Mid-Prairie’s dance team showed up for their first practice in June, they knew that …
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By Cheryl Allen |
12/20/23 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
If their responses after the conclusion of the concert were any indication, Mid-Prairie West Elementary students will be making sure the Middle School band has plenty of flute and …
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By Cheryl Allen |
11/21/23 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
On Monday, Nov. 13, the Mid-Prairie school board’s regular meeting ranged over a variety of matters, but action was taken on just one: a School Budget Review Committee (SBRC) Budget …
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By Cheryl Allen |
11/15/23 08:00 AM
KALONA
Final results are in from Nov. 7’s school board and city council elections, although all results are unofficial until canvass. Locally, all but one incumbent kept their seats, and all …
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By Cheryl Allen |
11/8/23 11:07 AM
Mid-Prairie held their homecoming parade on Wednesday, Sept. 13. After the parade finished, festivities transferred to the high school football field where the school held a powderpuff football …
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By TJ Rhodes |
9/15/23 02:48 PM
Photos by Molly Roberts |
6/1/22 01:32 PM
Third-grade and kindergarten students at Mid-Prairie West enjoy the snow during recess on Monday, January 3, 2022.
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By Jeff Yoder |
1/3/22 04:39 PM
Mid-Prairie students presented “Meet me in St. Louis” on Nov. 5-7, directed by Natalie Silbaugh and Christine Meader, with the Vocal Director, Collette McClellen.
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11/9/21 03:20 PM
Mid-Prairie Homecoming took place on Friday, September 17.
Thaddeus Shetler was crowed Homecoming King and Olivia Caskey was crowned Homecoming Queen.
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Photos by Molly Roberts |
9/21/21 02:53 PM
As part of Mid-Prairie’s Earth Day Community Clean Up Day, third and fourth grade students picked up over 120 bags of trash and sticks at North Park in Wellman on Thursday, April 22. …
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4/27/21 01:32 PM
In 2019 there were 87. In 2020 there were 350. And in 2021 there were 457 wrestlers who competed in the Iowa Girls State Wrestling tournament.
Five years ago, there were less than 100 girls …
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By Molly Roberts |
1/27/21 02:24 PM
Race day always begins with a huddle.
And a prayer.
Less than 10 minutes before the Mid-Prairie girls cross country team was to successfully chase down a fourth consecutive state team title on …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
11/10/20 12:22 PM
At long last, Mid-Prairie High School students and staff were finally able to present “Three Fairy Godmothers,” the play they’d started working on in February. The actors were …
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By Molly Roberts |
11/2/20 02:52 PM
Danielle Hostetler chases golf carts.
Really.
Since late August, when Hostetler won her first high school cross country race in school-record time, the Mid-Prairie freshman has been chasing …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
10/28/20 12:27 PM
