It has been nine months since the voters in the Sauk Rapids-Rice school district approved a bond referendum to replace Pleasantview Elementary. Since that time district officials have been busy working on design plans.
A Sauk Rapids principal and his family are about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime. Pleasantview principal Nate Swenson has taken a one-year leave of absence from the district so he can be a principal at a middle school in Saudi Arabia.
A bomb threat was called in to the Mississippi Heights and Pleasantview elementaries in Sauk Rapids this (Friday) morning. However, authorities quickly determined the threat was not credible.