Huskies in the news

It was a warm evening on July 9 when I found myself alone at the Basilica Block Party, scanning the crowd for a friendly face while waiting for Ryan Adams to play the main stage. Holy cats, there’s Mark Parrish.

Bob Motzko ’89 praises his U.S. Junior Hockey player in a feature on Troy Terry.

Hundreds of students and local residents came out for the fourth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast and Day of Service.

Biology faculty member Bill Cook shares his knowledge on wild edible plants.

Jessica Rosenberg ’73 presents “Thin Places” in ceramic wall panels at the Mango Tango Art Gallery in St. Thomas.

Naomi Nelson ’15 is part of efforts in the Brainerd lakes area to identify more sex trafficking survivors and prevent more young people from becoming victims.

Health services, counseling, and a recovery program could be moving into Eastman Hall at St. Cloud State University.

Jeffrey Wallace Nelson ’11 is Minnesota Deputy Sheriff of the Year.

Bob Motzko ’89 leads USA’s under-20 men’s hockey team into the Jan. 5 gold medal game against Canada.

St. Cloud State earns two items on Gov. Mark Dayton’s bonding-for-construction plan.

St. Cloud State University offers a summer Advanced Preparation Program to help first-year students, many of them from immigrant and refugee families, polish their academic skills.

The Somali students watched the news with a sense of dread: Someone had hit six people with a car and then stabbed five more at Ohio State University. Just don’t let him be Somali, some of the students thought to themselves as details of the attack started percolating on social media. Don’t let him be Muslim. It ...

Sen. Michelle (Martin) Fischbach ’89 will also lead Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee.

Coach Bob Motzko had wondered how his Team USA would handle hardship and misfortune, and now he wonders no more.

A Minnesota businessman with St. Cloud ties has been nominated for a national award in the truck dealership industry.

A former St. Cloud State University President died Friday, December 23 after a brief illness.

Charles “Chuck” Graham, the 15th president of St. Cloud State University, died Friday in Minneapolis after a brief illness.

A Washburn High School teacher has been awarded a $15,000 to promote co-teaching at the school.

Construction has finished at a Plymouth building that will be the new home of St. Cloud State University’s Twin Cities graduate programs.

The Southeast Minnesota region is expected to see normal or increased economic growth over the next several months, according to new reviews and forecasts released Thursday by Secretary of State Steve Simon and the St. Cloud State University School of Public Affairs Research Institute.

More than 650 fifth and sixth grade students from area schools, including Royalton and Mary of Lourdes in Little Falls, will have the opportunity to experience college and hands-on learning at the 2017 Science Rocks event.

Regional economies in Minnesota are projected to experience slower economic growth in the near future — except for Southeast Minnesota, the only regional economy in the state that is predicted to accelerate its economic growth in the short term.

The 2016 third quarter Minnesota Regional Economic and Business Conditions Reports show four of six planning areas — metro, central, northeast, northwest — witnessing slower growth in the coming months.

Matt Arnold ’14 of Karvakko in Bemidji recently received his Professional Land Surveyor’s license with the state of Minnesota.

Steve Raukar’s office in the courthouse here became a defacto museum over the years, chock full of boxes, photos, proclamations, cartoons, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks acquired while serving nearly three decades on the St. Louis County Board.