Rocori

Two area school districts are hosting public meetings on their operating levies.

Voters in the ROCORI school district will be going to the polls on November 8th. Last (Monday) night the school board voted to put two operating levy questions on the ballot.

The ROCORI school board will decide tonight (Monday) whether to put two operating levy questions on the November ballot. Superintendent Scott Staska says, if approved by the board, the first question would ask the voters to renew a $300,000 levy that is set to expire.

A piece of Cold Spring history is coming crashing down today (Thursday). The former ROCORI Middle School -- which was the original St. Boniface High School -- is being torn down.

The Rocori school district is holding a community meeting to discuss school safety - after two students brought weapons to school in April. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Rocori High School commons.

The high schools around the St. Cloud area are all hosting graduation ceremonies in the comings days. St. Cloud Apollo has their commencement at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday) at the St. Cloud Civic Center. Seniors at St. Cloud Tech will get their diplomas tomorrow (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. also at the Civic Center.

Police records show about 40 minutes went by from the time a principal discovered a student had a gun at a Stearns County school until she was able to reach the school's police officer.

The ROCORI school district will be honoring their Superintendent Scott Staska today (Wednesday). He was named "Minnesota's Superintendent of the year" by the Minnesota Association of School Administrators last fall.

Students at ROCORI and Albany high school will learn about the harmful effects of bullying. Assemblies will be held at both schools tomorrow (Thursday) presented by "Teen Truth Live" and the Special Olympics "Spread the Word to End the Word" campaign.

The ROCORI School Board met for the first time last (Monday) night, since two weapons incidents in the middle school. During the open comment period, a handful of concerned parents questioned why the district didn't go into a lockdown when they heard there was a gun in the school on April 11th, or when they heard about the knife in the school on April 20th.