By Tyler Dahlgren Rock County didn’t as much receive a facelift this past summer as it did a total reimagining, and you almost have to see it to believe it. Built in 1961 and added onto in 1990, the school in the scenic Sandhills town of Bassett remained relatively untouched for more than 60 years. Principal Nickie Ebert, a 1998 Rock County graduate herself, recently found eerily similar...Read More

By Tyler Dahlgren Every story has a start. Downtown Potter is relatively quiet on this wind-whipped Friday morning in October. School’s not in session, having wrapped up the first quarter the day before. Besides a few locals shooting the breeze outside of The Potter Sundry, where the famous Tin Roof Sundae was invented, the scene is comfortingly calm and plucked straight from a small town...Read More

By Tyler Dahlgren It’s mid-morning on a crisp Friday in October and Wilber-Clatonia superintendent Justin Petersen sits down at his desk, grinning ear-to-ear. It’s not uncommon for Petersen’s mornings to put him in one of these moods. He’s intentional about spending the first couple of hours of each day out and about, spending time with teachers and kids, and, aside from developing relationships...Read More

By Tyler Dahlgren There’s career fairs, and then there’s the Highway 91 Career Fair. Pride runs thick along the 32-mile stretch of highway connecting the small, charming towns of Humphrey, Leigh, Clarkson, Howells and Dodge. So, too, do opportunities, as evident by the 100 local businesses and organizations that spent last Wednesday with 330 students from five high schools. “I had no idea what I...Read More