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Skills teacher seeing benefits into boosting student progress
Skills teacher Katlen Bolger has 12 years of special education experience with six years dedicated to specific skills with Peet Junior High. When it comes...
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Homecoming dance has stayed mostly consistent over years
Music pounding, lights flashing, feet aching from formal shoes, sparkling dresses with suits and ties. Themed costumes, casual T-shirts and tennis shoes. Depending on who...
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Cedar Valley Deere employee embracing healthy benefits of cycling
When Jeramie Johnson, a 39-year-old John Deere employee, started to experience some knee pain after lifting weights over six years ago, his doctor recommended a...
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Teacher, student daughter debate the merits of homework
Many teachers will tell you about how homework will improve academic performance and enhance students’ responsibility and time management skills, but even in the same...
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Students exploring many options at CF farmers’ market
Cedar Falls farmers’ market has been gaining popularity amongst students over the past couple of weeks. People from the Cedar Valley have their own stands...
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Summer safety important
Summer is coming up and many people are excited to be outside and spend time in the sun. However, there are some risks that people...
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Two Peet freshmen reflect on year
With the school year coming to a close and yearbooks given to students this Wednesday, many freshmen have begun their goodbyes to teachers and younger...
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Lessons of Huckleberry Finn continue to resonate for American lit students
For many years now, controversy has surrounded the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Twain wrote it during the late 1870s and published...
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Cedar Valley photographer follows her bliss creating senior portraits
“I started taking photos in high school of bugs and flowers in my backyard, but I have always loved photography as a tool to capture...
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Peet freshman to perform self-produced music at formal
On May 14, freshman students from both junior highs will attend their ninth grade formals, an event that will be commemorated through photographs and memories,...
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Umemezie earns 10th National Youth Poet Laureate title
Three hundred people sit in a crowded room. In front of them, sits a stage with four young faces alongside the host of the event. One by one each...
