After 33 years with St. Cloud Area School District, Principal Sheri Rutar from Clearview Elementary School is retiring. It isn’t the retirement she imagined. The remainder of the school year has presented its challenges with COVID-19 for Rutar and her team. It’s been quite the ride navigating distance learning while transitioning the hand-off to a … Read more
Jessica Vos, lead school nurse for St. Cloud Area School District, is plenty busy these days. It is a new era of vigilance against illness. School nurses are some of the most essential workers for the school district and community. They handle the daily health screenings for COVID-19 of district employees called to work onsite. … Read more
1979 Apollo High School graduate, Joe Meierhofer, looks back fondly on high school and his career, saying his involvement in athletics at Apollo became the driving force behind his 28-year career. “I was a three sport athlete,” he says. Meierhofer attended St. Cloud State University (SCSU) after high school to play baseball for the Huskies. While … Read more
In this time of COVID-19, skills like sewing, perhaps once thought to be old-fashioned and quaint, now are at the forefront as hero tools. St. Cloud Area School District 742 students have been making masks to donate to emergency medical workers, but now staff members are joining the call to assist their essential-worker colleagues. Human … Read more
Students in today’s COVID-19 world may find all that is familiar upside-down. School, sports and activities either have changed or canceled altogether. With more time on their hands, some students find creative things to do, some use downtime to decompress and others, like Apollo High School freshman Breanna Stueve and senior Peter Doroff, are stepping … Read more
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