In the News

Selected Newspaper Headlines, 1994 - 2000
 Howard, South Dakota

1994

  • School accepts $500 grant to help with rural development

    1995

  • FBLA to work closely with advisory board
  • HHS picked as Rural Development Telecommunication site
  • FBLA working to make a dream come true

    1996

  • Students lend hands for Howard to prosper
  • Youth assets addressed at supper meeting
  • Extended class works to improve community
  • Local student works dispatch
  • Callies and Carmichael present Daschle book project
  • FBLA conducts disposable income survey for county
  • Rural Resource Center depicts ŇruralÓ life
  • Freshmen pop-up fun for first graders
  • EggertŐs angels calculate bean pile
  • Geometry class measures and computes around school

    1997

  • Learning To Survive: Blending a community and its past with the classroom may mean hope for the future of small towns across America
  • Grant money helps school programs for community
  • High School to receive $65,000 grant to start a student run green house
  • Eighth graders work with residents
  • FHA takes on hunger as a state project
  • Freshmen combine art, English for project
  • Flandreaux, Sioux Valley schools visit high school
  • Vo-ag construct duck houses
  • Orchard started at the high school
  • Orchard, test plot added to school agricultural curriculum
  • Bushman, WWII veteran, visits 8th grade class
  • Senior football players act as role models for elementary students
  • Folk singer brings children, elders together for community celebration
  • Malinchak speaks to students from Howard, Artesian/Letcher & Iroquois
  • Eighth grade uses math skills to design homes
  • Ag students begin projects
  • Small towns counter brain drain
  • Youth gain real-world experience, school credit at Emery newspaper

    1998

  • Community vision meeting attempts to unite
  • Students learning history of Howard for community project
  • Adults upgrade computer skills at high school lab
  • Program designed to keep young people in rural communities
  • HHS students present ideas to revive rural communities
  • Junior high math students create tessellations as class assignment
  • High school undertakes countywide cancer project
  • Miner County Cancer Project part of cross-curricular studies
  • American history, English combine to write abolitionist newspapers in 8th grade
  • Sophs write biographies as part of English
  • Extended class plays mock stock market game
  • Accounting II tours Dawson Construction
  • Students have visions of communityŐs future
  • County will be connected to the world wide web
  • Website getting positive feedback
  • Housing class tours McDonaldŐs Construction
  • FFA constructs park benches
  • Freshmen become heroes as part of English assignment
  • Class studies housing styles
  • Howard project opened community, raised sales
  • Local students sing for Rural School and Community Renewal meeting

    1999

  • Physics students use arrows, eggs, ice cream in experiments
  • Computers II class creates educational programs for elementary students
  • Youth lend time, energy for community betterment
  • Adult computer class sign-up overwhelming
  • The Talmud records events of class of 1922
  • Students offer steady work force
  • Northwest Area Foundation looks at establishing partnership with Miner County
  • School news on KJAM
  • Greenhouse projects underway for local students
  • Seniors learn CPR in advanced biology
  • Students react to Northwest Area FoundationŐs potential partnership
  • German class students attend Schmeckfest
  • Howard school to receive free Internet service
  • Clearwater 4-H club promotes day informing teenagers about smoking
  • Five students attend rural school, community convention
  • Freshmen celebrate with medieval feast
  • Eighth graders work on family history project
  • Website improvement underway
  • Miner County gets $500,000 community grant, maybe more
  • Education Committee looking to include more teenagers
  • FBLA members donate time, energy, food at the banquet in Sioux Falls
  • MCCR to conduct community education survey Aug. 16-20
  • Teenagers, community work together to start youth center
  • Area youth, adults view successful youth resource center in Minnesota
  • Juniors tour one-room school house as part of combine project
  • Advanced food class freezes and cans garden produce
  • Women of Miner County the focus of 7-12 English writing assignment
  • Albers teaches adult computer class
  • Grand Forks newspaper features Howard success
  • Trig. and chemistry classes figure size of soybean pile
  • Students record Christmas greetings of Good Sam residents

    2000

  • Old school becomes fitness center
  • Youth to host community soup supper
  • Youth center receives donations
  • Students help with upcoming All-Class Reunion
  • Students write songs celebrating rural life
  • Community celebration videos and CDs on sale
  • Seventh grade writes rap for test
  • School to sponsor parent education classes
  • Substance abuse classes taught
  • Spanish students read Dr. Seuss books to grade school students
  • Students study using greenhouse techniques
  • Chemistry class works with tie-dying
  • Australian education official praises revitalization efforts
  • Miner County artists share work in Resource Room
  • Vocal students compete in Augustana recently
  • HES 5th graders get ducks to raise
  • Students present at Student Extravaganza in Kearney, Nebraska
  • Students attend rally for Rural America in Washington, DC
  • Sociology class tours Adjustment Training Center
  • Vocational business class start on-the-job training
  • Computers II class creates projects for teachers, students

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