Huskies in the news

Events in the past several years have linked bullying at school directly with high profile cases of students taking their own lives.

Think about your last meal. Was it in front of the TV? Or at your desk staring at a computer screen?

While Mike Lambrecht was playing football at Watertown-Mayer High School, he was told that he wasn’t good enough to play at the collegiate level.

Musical vibrations, culinary sensations and information on about a dozen nonprofit organizations filled the Atwood Mall at St. Cloud State University for a few hours Saturday.

At 22, Clare Richards is a budding young professional. A Sauk Centre native and a graduate of St. Cloud State University, Richards has been an assistant art director for Leighton Interactive for almost two years.

St. Cloud State University’s Rehabilitation and Addiction Counseling program has earned a five-year, $1 million federal grant for training rehabilitation and addiction counselors.

College students have organized a celebration of multiculturalism for Saturday at St. Cloud State University.

Oh yeah, St. Cloud State Athletic Director Heather Weems has heard from some University of North Dakota fans about it. St. Cloud State’s home series against North Dakota is considered the premium series of the season by the university.

Mike Spanier is now in his 17th season as an NFL official. Prior to that, he officiated in the Big Ten and at other levels of college football. There isn’t much he hasn’t accomplished in his career. But if the Sartell resident has one regret, it’s this: Dick Putz didn’t live to see all he’s gone on to ...

Alumnus James Douglass earns recognition as the National Council of Marketing and Public Relations 2015 Communicator of the Year for District 5.

Assistant professor of biology Bill Cook leads a class on preserving wild foods at the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival.

Detroit Red Wings veteran Niklas Kronwall makes it look easy and flawless as he moves the puck down the ice.

Like a lot of boys, Brady Westart grew up wanting to be like his older brother. Ethan Westart’s love was baseball, so Brady played baseball through his freshman year of high school in Brimfield, Illinois.

St. Cloud State University will offer living expense stipends to hockey scholarship recipients next year, under a new NCAA rule that allows Division I programs to cover the actual “Cost of Attendance” for players.

Plans are coming together to pay for total cost of attendance for the NCAA Division I men’s and women’s hockey players at St. Cloud State University beginning in the fall of 2016.

Readers may know that part of my work at St. Cloud State University includes a set of regional forecasts of economic performance. As such, often I am asked to comment on the state of the area economy.

Heidi Hahn ’07 ’13, of Brainerd Public Schools and Paul Bunyan Educational Cooperative, was named Educator of the Year for 2015 by the Brainerd Jaycees.

Opposing sides marched in front of Planned Parenthood in the continued battle between Pro-Life and Pro-Choice.

St. Cloud Times — Two of the St. Cloud State men’s hockey forwards are coming off junior hockey playoff titles and played key roles on their respective teams.

Doctoral student in educational administration and leadership Kelly Haws is doing her dissertation on the effects of dyslexia assistance while working as a special education instructor in the Sartell-Stephen school district and working with children in the Foundation for Success at All Saints Academy.

St. Cloud Times — A sidewalk on the East Side is set to host signs of support for Planned Parenthood.

Alumna Nia Primus is gardens supervisor at Munsinger Gardens and Clemens Gardens.

Eden Prairie School District Superintendent Curt Tryggestad ’89 ’15 has been named the 2015 Richard Green Scholar by the Minnesota Association of School Administrators (MASA).

Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Inc. welcomes attorneys Stephanie A. Hansen ’91 and Daniel A. Sanders to the McAlester Legal Aid office. Both are members of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

Crow River Media — Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Acton Township, received last week the 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award from St. Cloud State University for his accomplishments since graduating SCSU in 1971.