Carleton College News

Senator Al Franken was greeted by Eveleth residents during their Fourth of July parade.

Cherif Keita, Carleton College professor of French studies, spent last weekend in Paris, showing the documentary film he has made regarding John L. Dube.

A tent city sprouted like early summer mushrooms around Carleton College in late June.

Al Franken's victory in the long-contested Minnesota U.S. Senate race means Democrats will control 60 Senate seats for the first time in 30 years - but they still will face obstacles for major legislation.

According to their web site The Carleton Singing Knights are an acapella group from Carleton College that began back in the mid-50's. Since then the group has been singing their way around numerous genres of music however the kids today, well you know they're in to the indie rock.

Remembering fear, precautions with 'a mad-dog killer on the loose' We asked readers to share their memories of where they were and how their family and community were affected in January 1958, when news broke about Charles Starkweather's killing spree.

Two private colleges in Minnesota -- Gustavus Adolphus and St. Olaf -- have found spots in a national top 10 ranking for their lofty graduation rates.

Even if Ben Folds snubbed them , after serving up instrument-free Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear the Carleton Singing Knights from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota show us that, once again, they have their finger on what's really popular in indie rock at any given moment.

Do You Remember? (06/24)

Teach for America , the national corps of new college graduates who commit to teach for at least two years in urban and rural public schools, will bring in 40 teachers each of the next three years to high-needs schools in the Twin Cities.

Green roofs have worked well in Europe for decades and in the northeast United States since the 1990s, but the complex systems of balancing nature, architecture and smart energy usage have been absent in Texas due to the state's dreadful amount of heat and dearth of water.

ST. PAUL a ' Gov. Tim Pawlenty has announced the reappointment of Margaret Rapp of Woodbury to the Minnesota State Arts Board.

M. Thomas Reynolds, age 81, of 3734 Adams St., Two Rivers, entered eternal life on Sunday, June 14, 2009 at Aurora Medical Center, Two Rivers.

NORTHFIELD a ' Carleton College is looking for information on a dog that bit a visitor on a walk through the schoola TMs arboretum Monday morning.

Dr. Daniel Sullivan retires from St. Lawrence University at the end of this month.

Today crews recovered the body of a Minnesota native killed in an avalanche in China.

Chamber Director Rob Anderson expects a record turn-out for this year's event - which will span Friday, June 12 through Tuesday, June 16 - as many class reunions are also being planned.

Carleton College will hold a memorial service in honor of graduate Wade Johnson, a climber and film-maker who went missing while on a mountaineering expedition in China on May 20.

The body of a Minnesota mountain climber has been found.Rescuers on a remote Chinese mountain found the body of 24-year-old Wade Johnson of Arden Hills Monday morning.Johnson and two others were buried by an avalanche on mountain in southwestern China last week.He graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota two years ago.The school is ...

The search goes on for Twin Cities filmmaker Wade Johnson on a mountainside in western China after the body of one of the climbers he was filming during an ascent of rugged Mount Edgar was found and identified, officials said Sunday.