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Oct. 15, 1970
COLERIDGE — Coleridge area residents woke up Friday morning to find the winter season paying an early call. At least six inches of snow fell before Friday noon.
Oct. 15, 1970
COLERIDGE — Coleridge Police Magistrate Ernest Hartung heard three cases on Saturday afternoon.
All concerned traffic offenders.
Gerald V. Murray, Hartington, improper headlights, registration certificate and license plates, $20 and $5 costs. Rodney E. Brandl, Coleridge, reckless driving, $25 and $5. Howard J. Konken, Coleridge, reckless driving, $25 and $5.
Oct. 15, 1970
COLERIDGE — Senior Girl Scout Car Wash, Saturday, Oct. 17, 12:00 to 5:00 p.m., Willms Oil, $1 cleaned inside and outside.
Oct. 15, 1980
COLERIDGE — NCIP judges visited Coleridge on Tuesday morning at 9:15 a.m. coming by plane to Wayne where local representatives met them. This year judges are Clayton Ringgenberg and Bob Horn and escort Terry Bailey. Coleridge entered the NCIP for the first time in 1964. Coleridge is in Class 2, population 351-800. There are six finalists in each class. Other finalists in Class 2 are Scotia, Exeter, Mullen, Arnold and Nelson.
Oct. 15, 1980
COLERIDGE — Wausa was downed last Tuesday night by the scores of 15-8 and 15-5. Crofton was clipped 15-6, 9-15, and 15-4. Against Wausa Teri Arduser led scoring with 10. Patty Dendinger and Brenda Froendt each scored six and Beth Kalin five. Brenda Froendt paced the Chargers over Crofton with 12 points. Teri Arduser scored 10 and Karla Hefner and Beth Kalin had eight and seven respectively.
Oct. 10, 1990
COLERIDGE — Bruce Froendt of Houston, Texas, won a silver medal as a member of the United States 4x400 relay team in the 1990 World Champion ships of Wheelchair Racing. Bruce was a member of a 26-person team, which was sent to represent the United States at the Championships held in Assen, the Netherlands (Holland). Froendt also competed in three individual events, the 400, 800, and 1500-meter races. In all three events, Froendt’s performances were good enough to advance him to the semi-finals, but stiff competition prevented him from making the finals.
Oct. 14, 2015
LAUREL — The school board room was packed with visitors for the Laurel Concord Coleridge School board meeting on Monday evening.
Close to 40 visitors packed into the room, and a few folks stood in the doorway to take in the meeting. The visitors were on hand to express their concern over a proposed change in the class rank policy and to talk about the school’s football program.
Public comments were allowed at the start of the LCC School board meeting, but Board members did not respond to the comments.
Before the comments were heard, guests were reminded of the rules regarding public comments and were told each person would be allowed five minutes. According to the policy, the board members would not answer any questions from the public comments.
Julie Kvols voiced her concern and had several questions.
“My concern is the policy for class rank,” she said. “Is there a problem now? What was the reason for the change?”
Jim Miller, Belden, had signed the necessary form to make comments and was ready to hand out copies of his statement to board members but he was told he would not be allowed to present any written material.
The policy states written materials cannot be accepted unless the school office is notified ahead of time. Certain rules have to be followed, said board President Rich Brandow.
Miller’s concerns centered on past and current staff resignations.
According to Miller, two certified staff members are resigning.
“These will be the second and third resignations in under two years. At the end of the school year last year, you paid a teacher for his resignation with no explanation from the school board to the public,” he said. “One resignation could be considered an isolated incident, however, this many resignations in such a short amount of time indicates larger issues within your school system. When you lose quality employees, especially at this time of the year, it puts your school district at a disadvantage.”
Oct. 14, 2020
COLERIDGE — The on-going precautions to keep COVID out of the schools was the main topic of discussion at Monday’s Laurel-Concord-Coleridge School Board meeting.
“We don’t want to be ultra restrictive,’’ Supt. Jeremy Christiansen said. “As we look at other schools, our precautions are less restrictive than other schools. We have looked at where is the greatest risk and how can we minimize contact.”
Christiansen said the school is not requiring face masks in the hallways, while most surrounding schools have students wearing masks all the time.
“We have had quite a few Teammate mentors calling in about virus protocol. It is a big challenge, students are doing a good job.’’ Christiansen said. He continues to monitor the situation at the school daily.
Christiansen gave a personnel update on the Middle School Special Education Paraprofessional position.
