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The District 206 Activities Department will host leading sports psychology consultant and peak performance coach Dr. Greg Dale in an exclusive workshop for Alexandria student athletes, coaches and parents on August 13. Dale is a professor of sport psychology at Duke University and...

If they could, School District 206 students would probably like to sit down and have a few words with Mother Nature. If they could, they would probably scold her for the number of days it snowed so far this school year. And if they could, they probably wouldn't have approved a motion...

Hidden Ponds. Legacy. Pathways. Woodland. Those were the final four names submitted for Alexandria's new elementary school to board members at Monday night's regular school board meeting. The new school, which will replace Washington Elementary School, is set to open for the 2009-2010...

The Alexandria School District 206 Board of Education reorganizational meeting on Monday, January 12, along with the regular monthly meeting scheduled for Monday, January 26, will be held in the Jefferson High School media center instead of the district office conference room. Both...

Alexandria School District 206 has a big order to fill. It needs to come up with ways to deal with budget shortfalls while continuing its offering of top-notch academic programs, maintaining quality facilities and buses, offering a variety of extra curricular programs, and so on. And...

Emotions were in full swing at Monday night's regular Alexandria School District 206 board meeting. The topic that got the pot stirring was the proposed plan for the new elementary attendance boundaries. Fewer than 20 parents attended the meeting.

Ten chairs were left open for residents of Alexandria School District 206 at the district's annual Truth in Taxation hearing Tuesday night. Although most of the chairs were filled, only three were taken by residents wishing to make comments - one by Alexandria Mayor Dan Ness; one...

Property tax levies will increase an average of 6.5 percent ($476 million) statewide if proposed local tax levies are adopted later this year, the Minnesota Department of Revenue announced last week. This compares to last year's increase of 7.3 percent and an average increase of...

The start of the 2009-2010 school year in Alexandria will be full of changes - a new elementary school, new students, new teachers and new rules for where students will be attending school. Nearly two years ago, Alexandria School District 206 began studying its elementary attendance...

Kids in Alexandria School District 206 think a little differently than those whose votes actually counted. Although students agreed with Douglas County adults about who should be the next president, they voted against the county's choices in the two county commissioner races. As...