albany school district

Voters in the Albany school district are being asked to go to the polls this summer and vote on a bond referendum.

The Albany Area school district has cancelled classes Friday for the 7th through 12th grades.

School is right around the corner and crews are still busy digging up and renovating parts of the Albany school grounds. The community approved a $33 million referendum last summer for the updates. The district also received an additional $6.2 million in community donations.

If severe weather or an active shooter threatens a school, what are steps that need to take place to keep students and teachers safe? Administrators from several Central Minnesota schools heard a presentation on Thursday at Avon Elementary from the Minnesota School Safety Center, which is part of the Minnesota Division of Homeland Security.

Albany school and police officials are investigating a threat made against the district. Superintendent Greg Johnson says some students found the threat written on a bathroom wall in the high school late in the day on Monday. It referred to something happening on Thursday of next week.

Voters in the Albany school district have overwhelmingly approved a bond referendum. There were 2,079, or 81-percent, "yes" votes. And there were 472, or 19-percent, "no" votes.