Deer River continues to increase opportunity for student wellness

by Meghan Bown, Get Fit Itasca Community Health Coordinator and Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP) Coordinator In September of 2011, ISD 317 adopted an updated Wellness Policy.  The policy included strengthened language around goal setting, standards, and measurement of wellness related...

Attendance does matter

by Louise H. McGregor, staff writer Truancy has long been a problem that parents, school staffs and officials have been battling with, but in more recent years this problem has seemed to be increasing. So much so, that programs have been formed to take on this issue to try to eliminate it. The program...

Deer River HealthCare Center’s commitment to women’s health exemplified in new digital mammography technology

Deer River HealthCare Center announces the availability of Full Field Digital Mammography, now offered through the hospital’s Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging Department. “The digital mammography images are a new ally in the fight against breast cancer,” Dr. Manny Benson explained. “As a...

Legislative redistricting plan announced

by Louise H. McGregor, staff writer The population changes showing up in the completion of the U.S. Census of 2010 dictated the need for redrawing of the Minnesota legislative districts to keep the population in each district about the same. A five-judge panel took on this task after the legislature and...

Warriors boys basketball

by Ara Anderson The Deer River Warriors boys basketball team was in action twice this past week.  They traveled to Aurora on Tuesday to take on the Mesabi East Giants, and then were home on Friday night to thank and honor their parents on Parents Night, and host the Little Fork-Big Falls Vikings in a...