Popular former Park teacher, coach loses cancer fight

By: Jon Avise, South Washington County Bulletin Jerome Detviler, a popular longtime educator and athletics coach at Park High School, died this week following a long bout with abdominal cancer. Detviler, 61, graduated from Park in 1968 and then taught and coached at the Cottage Grove high school for... [Read more]

Former Park principal continues to draw praise

Former Park High School Principal Efe Agbamu continues to draw praise for being selected principal of the year even after she left the school. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar met with Agbamu in Washington, D.C. on Friday to congratulate her on being named 2011 Minnesota Secondary Principal of the Year. Former... [Read more]

Wolfpack Rules Runway!

KABOOM!  Uncooperative speakers protested loudly to their work as the Park News Network prepared the show.  Frenzy flooded the sound box, and the unseen magic began.  The sound was tamed, Park’s doors were opened, and a lone light centered on a familiar figure.             Robert Briggs,... [Read more]

Fifth Graders Learn the Value of Kindness

               It was an afternoon filled with laughter, learning, and lamenting on Wednesday January 6 as Armstrong Elementary fifth graders experienced the annual Kindness Retreat. Youth Frontiers, a nationwide nonprofit organization that advocates spreading virtuous qualities to compulsory... [Read more]

Germans Exclaim “Wii Won!”

          Shouts of joy and despair erupted from the language hallway on the afternoon of January 6 as the second annual Wii tournament commenced.  This entertaining tradition is an opportunity for members of the four language classes: American Sign Language, French, German, and Spanish, to... [Read more]

Park One Act Play for 2009

    Denise Atkinson and Steve Estenson have chosen the 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winning play J. B., by Archibald MacLeish.  The plot is based on one of the best-known stories in the Old Testament of the Bible, the story told in the book of Job.  Those familiar with the story will remember that God is... [Read more]

Park Students Manufacture Windchimes

The Manufacturing and  Engineering Technology Class of Park High School is manufacturing  hand crafted wind chimes as a class project.  As a class (company) students have gone through research and design problems, material selection, cost analysis, step by step procedures in production, individual... [Read more]

Still Interested in TV?

By: Brittany Affolter “No More T.V for you!” That used to be the worst punishment for us when we were younger. As we got older though,  it seems to have changed to different electronics getting taken away. Taking away a cell phone from a teen is a tragedy now a days. It is one of the most... [Read more]

Hitting the Road

Ahh, the open road. Every window in the car is rolled down and the stereo is blasted to whatever radio station playing at the moment. It’s one of those freeing moments in life, with no parents nagging on your every move. Have you ever wanted to go on a road trip with your friends? It’s a... [Read more]