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Pink Arrows Provide Strength, Hope for Those with Cancer

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Shelby Offrink wheeled her way toward an ocean of pink, pushed along in her wheelchair by her husband, Ben, younger daughter Hazel on her...

Lowell Teacher Honored for Contributions to Math Education

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A Lowell Middle School teacher who uses journaling and project-based learning to help students see the usefulness of math was recently honored for her...

With Song and Support, Students Connect with Ugandan Orphans

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It's one thing to send money to an orphan halfway around the world.  It's quite another to talk to him face-to-face, some Lowell third-graders...

From Genocide to College, Rwandan Refugee Student Keeps Faith Strong

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Editor's note: This is the seventh of a series about students who have had to overcome unusual challenges and hardships to graduate this spring. Moses Kabandana...

From Skinned Knees to Shoveling Snow, She Does it All

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When it comes to her role at Alto Elementary School, Vicky Pratt's philosophy is pretty simple. "If it needs to be done, I don't...

Hard Work, Leadership Pay Off for Student, Teacher at State FFA Convention

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When Emma Blough attended her first Michigan FFA Convention as a freshman, she knew she wanted to be a state officer. Small wonder, then,...

Children and Seniors Make Snowmen and Memories

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No sooner had two dozen first-graders arrived at a Lowell assisted-living facility than Albertine Schreur began telling a few of them about her life...

School Day or Snow Day? Driving in the Dark Helps Make the Call

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On a late January morning, Carol Hamilton was out driving at 3:30 a.m. to see just how bad the roads were around Lowell. Pretty bad,...

Embezzlement Case Raises Safeguard Issues for Schools

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As parent-run youth sports programs go, this one seemed to be thriving. More than 100 third- through sixth-grade girls competed in volleyball against girls...

Students Rewarded for Teen Driver Safety Campaign

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Jacob North knows of too many people his age killed in car crashes. "The ones that really hit home are the ones where we have...

Art and Chemistry Create Some Magic

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The late-autumn air is frigid, but inside the kiln it’s almost 2,000 degrees. Lowell High School students gather around the shiny metal cylinder as art...

Two Lowell Odyssey of the Mind Teams Win State Finals

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It doesn’t look nearly big enough to hold 400 pounds. After all, it’s just a little toothpick-scaffold-like structure made of balsa wood and glue....

Late Joiner Surprised to Land in National Finals

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When a friend suggested Ethan Sutton join a Lowell High School business club this year, he thought, “Why not? It should look good on...

Lowell Grads Pay it Forward On Service Learning Day

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Some washed windows. Others weeded a playground. Still others played cards with senior citizens. All of the 200-plus seniors from Lowell High School gave something...

Lambs, Chicks and Horses Become a Science Lesson

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Gazing at four pigs in a pen, the first graders wanted to know why some of them had blue tags in their ears and...

Junior Gardeners Get Up Close & Personal with Honeybees, Vegetables, Beetles

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“How do you get into this thing?” That’s Leo Tavarone, a fourth-grader at Murray Lake Elementary School, as he tries to wiggle his way into...
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