Rocori

This week, WJON is featuring several area superintendents to highlight their school district before the 2015-2016 school year kicks off. Today, we highlight Scott Staska, superintendent of ROCORI schools. This is Staska's 14th year in the district.

A community solar garden is coming to Cold Spring within the next year. SunShare will be building the city a 5 Megawatt solar garden about 5 miles north of ROCORI High School.

The ROCORI school district is expecting to start fall classes before Labor Day this year. Labor Day is on September 7th this year, which is the latest it can land. ROCORI Superintendent Scott Staska says they are now expecting to start class on September 1st this fall, pending state action in a special session.

The ROCORI school district is hoping they can start school before Labor Day in the fall. Labor Day lands on September 7th this year, which is the latest it can land. ROCORI Superintendent Scott Staska says the district made a request to the state to start on September 1st, but is now in limbo

Volunteers in the ROCORI district are making a difference by giving packed weekend meals to students in need. The ROCORI Action Packs are a backpack of food that goes home with a student to ensure that they have some healthy, nutritional meals for the weekend.

The ROCORI Robotics team has been busy over the last few months preparing their robot for a state competition. The team will be competing in Duluth Thursday through Saturday.

The ROCORI school board is looking ahead to 2015 after their organizational meeting on Monday night. The district grew in 2014 and hopes the growth to continue this year.

Two Central Minnesota school districts are increasing their property-tax levies for 2015.

The Rocori volleyball team lost 3 games to 1 to 3rd seeded Belle Plaine Thursday night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul in the Class AA State tournament quarterfinals.

For the first time in more than a decade, there has been a significant increase in enrollment in the ROCORI school district.