Orr News

Playwright and performer Leslye Orr will bring her one-person show to Wykoff when she puts on "Wisecracks from My Father" and "The Stuffed Animal Show" over the Father's Day weekend.

The St. Louis County School Board has chosen a final school re-organization plan to present to voters this fall.

Click to enlarge 1 of 1 The board's split vote on Monday puts the proposal up for a public vote this fall.

While geographically the largest school district in the state; The Saint Louis County School District only has around 2-thousand students.

Two boats on Pelican Lake in northern Minnesota collided head-on, leaving one of the operators dead and two others with minor injuries, authorities said.

One man is dead and two others injured after two boats collided on a lake in northeastern Minnesota.

The morning of May 9 was not all that miserable, given standards long established for the Minnesota fishing opener.

Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend Construction News Stimulus money on its way to the region 4/29/2009 The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed into law by President Obama on Feb.

Click to enlarge The university, the U.S. Department of Energy and other political and scientific leaders will break ground Friday on the multi-million dollar experiment near Orr.

Submitted by Journal Staff on April 22, 2009 - 9:38am. Borderland Briefs Concert bus The Veterans of Foreign Wars-sponsored bus to Thursdaya s Border Concert at Backus Auditorium will pick up at 6:35 p.m. at Hampton Court, 6:40 at West Falls Estates and Robb-Ross, 6:45 at Rivers Edge Villa and 6:50 at Woodland.

The seven St. Louis County schools are in need of some changes. "Enrollment is declining.

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians has named Dr. Jennie Orr, M.D., of Hastings as the 2009 Family Physician of the Year.

Submitted by Journal Staff on March 30, 2009 - 11:34am. Borderland Briefs Sloppy joe fundraiser The Falls Hunger Coalition Board of Directors along with assistance from the local United Way Board will host a Sloppy Joe Lunch fundraiser for the food shelf Tuesday at Faith United Church.

Federal economic recovery funding has been awarded to Fermi Labs to expand a physics experiment in Northeast Minnesota.

The union representing St. Louis County School District teachers has yet to settle with the district on a contract for the 2007 to 2009 period, less than six months before the contract would expire.

A Grand Forks man riding a mountain bike has finished in the top 10 in a grueling, 135-mile winter marathon on the Arrowhead Trail from International Falls, Minn., to Tower, Minn.

It's not exactly an open door for criminals, but the streets of the Iron Range city of Cook no longer will be patrolled by its lone police officer.