To The Crookston Times readers,

It is with regret that CherryRoad Media announces the closing of The Crookston Times

Our company is dedicated to the preservation of community journalism. Since the purchase of our 1st paper in late-2020 to today, we have prided ourselves on our ability to fight the difficult battle that newspapers face in today’s digital society. Unfortunately, that battle cannot always be won.

The Crookston Times has struggled in recent years to find its footing in this community. Since purchasing The Crookston Times, CherryRoad Media has been unable to avoid financial losses every month. The paper was losing money when we bought it, and it continued to do so. We must now come to terms with the fact that we do not have a path forward to sustainability.

And we thank those who have supported us.

November 2022

MDE says Attorney General’s opinion on lunch shaming is a win for students and families

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) applauded Attorney General Keith Ellison’s opinion that all students are entitled to the same healthy, full school meal, regardless of lunch debt. Commissioner Heather Mueller had asked the Attorney General for clarification after receiving reports that a number of public schools or districts across Minnesota had adopted policies whereby students with unpaid meal balances are denied lunch items from the scheduled menu for the day.

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Education and American Democracy

‘“Go West Young Man” Becomes “Go Any Direction You Want”’ As noted in our discussion of the impact of Turner’s theme of “closing the frontier”, Americans’ visions of the future went off in all directions. Following the termination of the war with Spain, those wandering eyes began to be focused on a specific dream and an intriguing new project: “what if we could find a way to travel by water, not land, from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea”? While the broader American population was still reeling from the excitement of the Wright Brothers’ launching of their first plane (December 17, 1903), those in the business world and Congress were drawing their excitement from conversations of the possibility of developing this new world power, the United States of America, with a means of extending its financial and technological power around the globe.

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