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    April 12, 2012
    River Falls High School 'shooter drill' is over
    A two-hour school safety drill that simulated a couple of intruders, one who fired two blank shots, inside the high school ended a short while...
    education / newsApril 12, 2012 - 10:39am
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    April 23, 2009
    Lawsuit won't stop high school graduations at church
    A suburban Milwaukee school district says it will not move its high school graduation ceremonies from a large church, despite a lawsuit to stop it. The Americans United for Separation of Church and State carried out their promise to go to court Wednesday. They sued the Elmbrook...
    April 23, 2009 - 9:15am
    March 11, 2009
    Gymnasts state runner-up
    Wildat gymnastics coach Shelly Kahut-Loomis said it best after the Cats had eight falls during the balance beam competition at Saturday's WIAA...
    sportsMarch 11, 2009 - 1:37pm
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    March 4, 2009
    FBLA garners top awards
    River Falls High School teacher and club advisor Chris Silver has about 23 reasons to be proud these days. That's because almost two dozen of...
    March 4, 2009 - 9:36am
    February 12, 2009
    Proposed realignment may shake up BRC football
    Could the 2009 high school football season be the last time River Falls and Hudson battle for the Little Brown Jug? It could if the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) has its way. Because of changes in the Wisconsin Valley Conference, the WIAA is floating a proposal...
    February 12, 2009 - 12:00am
    January 29, 2009
    Editorial: Summit could be about survival
    An education summit with 100 invited citizens at the high school Saturday aims to focus on ways to improve local education and set priorities. First-year Superintendent Tom Westerhaus called for the summit. It's part of his emphasis on meticulous, long-range planning. In light...
    opinionJanuary 29, 2009 - 12:00am
    She takes trip of a lifetime
    MacKenzie Watson, a River Falls High School ninth-grader and daughter of Dan and Connie, said about her trip to President Obama's inauguration: "It was all amazing." The honor student went with about 15,000 other students including middle and high school and university, to take...
    newsJanuary 29, 2009 - 12:00am
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    January 28, 2009
    Learn and perform with dance team
    The Wildcat Dance Team invites all students from kindergarten through 8th grade to perform with them at a varsity basketball game. Students...
    newsJanuary 28, 2009 - 12:00am
    January 14, 2009
    High school credit union to have ribbon cutting
    A new WESTconsin Credit Union office will open later this month at River Falls High School. The office will be located on the second floor in the school's Cat Shop. A ribbon cutting for the new office is set for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27. The high school credit union will be staffed...
    January 14, 2009 - 12:00am
    January 8, 2009
    Back to class at high school
    Thanks to a massive cleanup, the burst water pipe in a high school math classroom wall that spewed water across floors and into halls and other rooms didn't stop classes from resuming Monday. "The students wouldn't know anything happened," Superintendent Tom Westerhaus said, adding:...
    January 8, 2009 - 12:00am
    January 1, 2009
    High school sporting events postponed
    Today's school cancellations have forced the postponement of a pair of high school sporting events planned for tonight (Thursday). The Wildcat hockey team's nonconference game against Amery and the boys' swim team's Big Rivers Conference meet at Menomonie have both been postponed....
    January 1, 2009 - 12:00am
    Latest high school leak washes up bad memories
    Last week the Journal's top headline read: "Pipe cracks, school floods." Déjà vu, anyone? Back in 2001-02 new school superintendent Boyd McLarty had to deal with a laundry list of construction flaws at the just-opened high school. A front-page Journal photo from Oct. 4, 2001,...
    newsJanuary 1, 2009 - 12:00am
    December 26, 2008
    State homeowners surprised by higher assessments
    Just because home values are plunging doesn't mean property taxes are falling. In fact, many Wisconsinites were amazed to see that the assessed values of their homes actually went up this year and some folks blame that for a bigger than expected tax hike. According to state law,...
    December 26, 2008 - 9:00am
    December 19, 2008
    Woman who impersonated daughter at high school found innocent
    A 34-year-old woman who enrolled at Ashwaubenon High School and practiced with the cheerleading squad under her daughter's name has been found innocent by insanity to a charge of identity theft. Wendy Brown went to class for one day in August and she posed as her 15-year-old daughter...
    December 19, 2008 - 12:00am
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