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(2008/05/17)
When Zoe de Boer and Alexis Marcon finished their books for the Mary Jo Nettesheim Memorial Literary Competition, they each were worried that they might win. They’re such good friends, they thought losing would be better than winning something without the other winning, too.
(2008/05/17)
Onalaska students made it to Disney World. The “trip” was part of the Movin’ and Munchin’ segment of the Fit Kids Living Healthy initiative in the Onalaska School District.
(2008/05/17)
For the Onalaska High School Class of 2008, this is it. today is the last day of high school, and the culmination of nearly 13 years of studying. Since it is the end, I have no choice but to get nostalgic and revisit the joys of my youth.
(2008/05/17)
Two projects by Holmen Middle School eighth-graders earned some recognition at the recent National History Day state competition on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
(2008/05/17)
The Onalaska High School May Students of the Month are:
(2008/05/17)
The Onalaska High School Extra Effort Award is awarded to students who work above and beyond what is expected.
(2008/05/17)
The Onalaska High School Freddy Hilltopper Award is awarded to students who display positive leadership and school spirit.
(2008/05/17)
When Onalaska and Holmen area students do well, we want to hear about it. The Onalaska Community Life and Holmen Courier publish news about student achievements from elementary to college. Here is the latest good news about Onalaska and Holmen area students:
(2008/05/17)
The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center will host four events for youths to learn more about archaeology.
(2008/05/14)
The laptops were out in force last Friday at Western Technical College as 85 electronics students from 12 area high schools tried to coax robots representing their respective schools through a series of intricate maneuvers.
(2008/05/14)
Three area high school students are among the 120 Wisconsin students named as All-State Scholars for 2008.
(2008/05/14)
The Holmen School District has two listening sessions planned next week to get public input on changes in elementary school attendance boundaries.
(2008/05/14)
Onalaska and Holmen high school music students attended the Wisconsin School Music Association State Solo and Ensemble Festival this past weekend at UW-La Crosse. Students earned the privilege of performing at state by earning a *I rating on a Class A entry at their district contest in February.
(2008/05/14)
Onalaska High School’s bands will present their final concert of the year on Monday, May 12, beginning at 7:30 p.m. This concert is dedicated to and recognizes the graduating senior band members.
(2008/05/14)
Two events this weekend will put showcase music at Luther High School.
(2008/05/14)
The Onalaska Hilltopper Show Choir’s Cabaret 2007 show will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 9-10, in the Claude C. Deck Performing Arts Center at Onalaska High School.
(2008/05/14)
The May Luther Light at Onalaska Luther High School is senior Jodi Selin, daughter of Jack and Cindy Selin of La Crosse. Jodi attended First Lutheran School of La Crosse before attending Luther.
(2008/05/14)
When Onalaska and Holmen area students do well, we want to hear about it. The Onalaska Community Life and Holmen Courier publish news about student achievements from elementary to college. Here is the latest good news about Onalaska and Holmen area students:
(2008/05/07)
For the past few months, juniors and seniors have been gearing up for the finale of the high school social calendar: prom.
(2008/05/07)
The Onalaska Alumni Association wants to start a new tradition. The association is planning a Wall of Excellence honoring outstanding achievement and service to Onalaska High School by its alumni, faculty and community members.
(2008/05/07)
Western Technical College’s Alumni Association will present this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award to Richard Westpfahl of Onalaska. Westpfahl will be honored at a special reception after Western’s commencement ceremony on Friday, May 9.
(2008/05/07)
Three Onalaska High School FBLA students finished in the top three in their events at the state competition held in La Crosse in early April, qualifying them for the National FBLA Leadership Conference in Atlanta from June 26-29.
(2008/05/07)
A local student who attends the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is taking part in the school’s Senior Art Exhibition, which features work by graduating seniors.
(2008/05/07)
Thousands of middle and high school students will head to UW-La Crosse Saturday, May 3, for an opportunity to perform in a Wisconsin School Music Association State Music Festival, one of the largest student events of its kind in the nation.
(2008/05/07)
Thoughts of Hawaii, Mexico, Green Bay Packers, John Deere tractors, birthday and garden parties all came to mind April 14 as 14 La Crosse County 4-H members displayed their nutritional and creative snacks or menu items for judging at the annual 4-H Favorite Foods Revue.
(2008/05/07)
Contributions toward the Fred Frick Scholarship Fund are coming in slowly, but many want to show their appreciation for the longtime school district administrator who will retire at the end of the year.
(2008/05/07)
Viking Elementary students involved in the Kids for Saving Earth Club have helped out a lot of environmental causes this year, donating money they’re raised to help snowy owls, gorillas and polar bears and to plant trees. They’ve been far from idle, obviously, and they don’t want car drivers idling either.
(2008/05/07)
Katherine Weber of Holmen captured first place in the intermediate voice division Saturday at the prestigious Schubert Club auditions in the Twin Cities.
(2008/04/29)
Onalaska High School is ringing with talk of graduation and college. In the senior hallway, a calendar has the dates of graduation parties, and the countdown to the last day of school is on.
(2008/04/29)
Holmen High School senior Kara Leake said that during her sophomore year, Conor McLaughlin and she were in the same geometry class.
(2008/04/29)
The UW-Madison Jazz Big Band will join Onalaska High School’s Jazz Ensemble for an evening of jazz on Sunday, April 27.
(2008/04/29)
The following students were named to the Onalaska High School honor roll for the third term of the 2007-08 school year
(2008/04/23)
No one likes to talk about sex, and even more, no one likes to talk about sexual abuse. Not only because it’s still a taboo subject, but because it’s too painful to think about — a child, a friend, a parent, being a victim of an atrocious act of violence.
(2008/04/23)
In its fifth year at Onalaska High School, the annual Diversity Day celebration has established itself as a popular tradition. “We’ve received a lot of positive feedback from students and staff,” said John Horman, the organizer of the event and a guidance counselor at Onalaska.
(2008/04/23)
An Odyssey of the Mind team from Onalaska that has been working together since the members were in second grade qualified for the world competition for the first time.
(2008/04/23)
You can count on four middle school students and they can count in mathematics. So well, in fact, that in math competition, the middle school ranked first in the region for grade 6, first in the region for grade 7 and second in the state for grade 8.
(2008/04/23)
The grass and the trees are growing; the weather has warmed, and seniors are slacking. Spring is in the air. It’s hard to imagine that in less than one month, fully one fourth of Onalaska High School’s student body will walk out its doors for the last time.
(2008/04/15)
The Onalaska High School Hilltoppers Show Choir wrapped up its competition season last week at the national Fame Competition held in New York City.
(2008/04/15)
Students have always had at least a few complaints about school lunches, but it’s highly unlikely you’ll find Onalaska and Holmen students launching a boycott, as students in Westby did last week. That’s because in Onalaska and Holmen, they have SNACs.
(2008/04/15)
The freshly baked muffins and whole-grain pizza crusts served to Onalaska schoolchildren may be a thing of the past because of rapidly rising grain costs.
(2008/04/15)
After 18 years, it’s fair to say the regional competition for National History Day has come of age. It started with just three schools, but this year’s competition, held last week at UW-La Crosse, drew more than 60 projects from 275 students from 16 schools in 12 school districts.
(2008/04/15)
November 4 cannot come soon enough. On this day in the near future, the people of our country will cast their votes for our next president, but the race leading up to this date is beginning to wear on our country.
(2008/04/15)
The April Luther Light is senior Jonas Gertsch, son of Colynn and Lori Gertsch of Sparta. Jonas attended St. John’s Lutheran School of Sparta before coming to Luther.
(2008/04/15)
The following students were named Star Students for April at Onalaska Middle School.
(2008/04/15)
When Onalaska and Holmen area students do well, we want to hear about it. The Onalaska Community Life and Holmen Courier publish news about student achievements from elementary to college. Here is the latest good news about Onalaska and Holmen area students:
(2008/04/09)
Tech Directions magazine honored Onalaska High School’s Web site as its Web Site of the Month.
(2008/04/09)
Life is a never-ending field of choices. We wake up in the morning and have to choose to get out of bed. We have to choose what to wear and what to eat. Should I eat? Do I have time to eat?
(2008/04/09)
When Bridget Pfaff was a student at Evergreen Elementary in Holmen, she undoubtedly learned a few lessons about hand-washing and preventing illness. These days, Pfaff is the clinical manager of infection control at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center and shares her insights with youngsters whenever she gets the chance.
(2008/04/09)
The Onalaska High School Extra Effort Award is awarded to students who work above and beyond what is expected.
(2008/04/09)
The Onalaska High School Freddy Hilltopper Award is awarded to students who display positive leadership and school spirit.
(2008/04/09)
The following students were honored as Onalaska High School Students of the Month for April:
(2008/04/02)
For the second year in a row, an Onalaska student has aced the ACT college entrance exam, scoring a perfect 36. In addition, Amy Yin, a junior, notched an almost-perfect score on the SAT, the other major college admissions examination.
(2008/04/02)
In his eighth year directing the Hilltopper Show Choir show band at Onalaska High School, Dawson Strutt realized that this year’s band was set to impress.
(2008/04/02)
The Onalaska Kindergarten Center Parent Teacher Organization will host the school’s annual Kindergarten Karnival on Saturday, March 29, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Eagle Bluff Elementary School, 200 Eagle Bluff Court, Onalaska.
(2008/03/25)
Twelve Onalaska marketing students competed at the Wisconsin DECA State Career Development Conference held March 11-13 at the Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva, Wis.
(2008/03/25)
The Onalaska High School forensics team is full of survivors. The team started off the season with a brand new coach, Chris Cavadini, who is a seasoned forensics coach and judge.
(2008/03/25)
The Onalaska Kindergarten Center Parent Teacher Organization will host the school’s annual Kindergarten Karnival on Saturday, March 29, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Eagle Bluff Elementary School, 200 Eagle Bluff Court, Onalaska.
(2008/03/25)
The Luther Light for March is Erica Babinec, daughter of Joel and Chris Babinec of Onalaska. Erica attended St. Paul’s Lutheran School before she attended Luther.
(2008/03/25)
Students in the Principles of Engineering class at Onalaska High School put all of things they have learned this year to the test at the Southeast Minnesota/Western Wisconsin Regional Science and Engineering Fair on Feb. 29 at St. Mary’s University.
(2008/03/25)
When Onalaska area students do well, we want to hear about it. The Onalaska Community Life publishes news about student achievements from elementary to college. Here is the latest good news about Onalaska area students:
(2008/03/18)
State Sen. Dan Kapanke, R-La Crosse, gave Holmen School Board members something to worry about Monday night. Not only did he warn everyone to be wary of any unusual skin growths like he had — it was cancerous and had to be removed — he also warned that one of the alternatives being considered in Madison to help relieve the budget shortfall is to delay the state’s June payments to schools to July.
(2008/03/18)
We live in the age of information, an age where numberless facts lie no further than the nearest laptop, iPhone, or Blackberry. It is no stretch of the imagination to believe that the average American must be likewise more informed, more educated. After all, this is the United States of America, the world super power.
(2008/03/18)
The following Onalaska students received degrees from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in December mid-term commencement ceremonies: Nicole Stellrecht, BA, communication studies-public relations and organization communication; Mollie Delagrave, BS, marketing; Ryan Hoepfner, BS (high honors), finance with minor in accountancy; Garrett Jerue, BS, finance; Lindsey Leppert, BS, accountancy; Kyle Nyman, BS, finance; Kevin Roland, BS, finance and economics; Laura Godden, BS (high honors), social studies and political science with minor in history; Laura Olson, BS (honors), English; Lisa Ulik, BS (high honors), art; Julie Vue, BS, early childhood-middle childhood education with minor in early childhood education; Jeff Gloyd, masters of public health - community health education; Shannon Gunderson, education specialist - school psychology; Kristine Bohr, MS, special education; Stephanie Page, master of education professional development - professional development
(2008/03/18)
The following students were honored Onalaska High School’s March Students of the Month:
(2008/03/18)
The Onalaska High School Extra Effort Award is awarded to students who work above and beyond what is expected. Three winners per month in any grade are chosen by the academic departments.
(2008/03/18)
The Onalaska High School Freddy Hilltopper Award is awarded to students who display positive leadership and school spirit.
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