Awesome news! West Central Area school's one-act play takes first place at today's sub-section contest

Members of the WCA One-Act play pose with their sub-section championship trophy in the high school auditorium.

What awesome news!

Read all about WCA's championship performance in the one-act competition in next week's Herman-Hoffman Tribune.


The Knights advance to the Section 5A round, held next Saturday (Feb. 5) at A-C-GC High School in Grove City, MN.

West Central Minnesota Youth Chorale Concert will be Tuesday, December 7

The West Central Minnesota Youth Chorale Concert originally scheduled for Nov 29th has been postponed until Tuesday December 7th at 7PM at the secondary school in Barrett.

The concert will also feature the WCA school Choralaires and other surprises.

Now 1:15am - the WCA levy builds a 46 vote margin lead!

At 1:10am, the tally now stands at 685 yes to 639 no.

West Central Area to hold a levy referendum on Election Day

The West Central Area schools are proposing an increase to the local tax levy from $950 per pupil to $1,370 per pupil, for a period of five years.

More information on the levy will be in this week's Herman-Hoffman Tribune.

Visit the Herman-Hoffman Tribune website's videos page to see a clip of WCA's Megan Endreson performing the National Anthem

The link for the Herman-Hoffman Tribune website is: http://www.hermanhoffmantribune.com

Then click on the "videos" tab.

WCA senior Megan Endreson did an outstanding job singing the National Anthem last night, and while I arrived later than I wanted to for the game, I got there in time to record part of the song.

I have other video clips from the football game as well. Some could be dubbed highlights for B-B-E, while others show some great scenes for the WCA Knights.

Stay tuned.

It's official, WCA will ask voters to increase property taxes at the polls this fall - just as I've been saying all year long

Breaking news...at the regular monthly meeting of the West Central Area school board on Monday night, it was decided that the district will ask taxpayers in November to increase the levy from the current $950 per pupil to $1,370 per pupil. The duration of the levy hike is for five years.

The current levy expires in 2012, and it represents approximately $665,000 in funding for the annual school budget.

The board had asked voters to hike the levy to $1,250 per pupil for a period of 10 years last fall. The final tally was 497 yes to 571 no votes, a narrow defeat of just a few percentage points.

A full story on this written by Chris Ray of the Grant County Herald will appear in the July 29 issue of the Herman-Hoffman Tribune.

My 2 cents: voters should have passed last year's levy hike. By not passing it, even greater pressure will be placed on the passage of this year's referendum and the school's budget will be in a very serious situation if it fails.

Hoffman-Kensington fastpitch season is halfways complete

Here are a couple players on the H-K fastpitch team playing on defense in a game against Brandon, held at the Hoffman athletic complex on Tuesday morning.

West Central Area Middle School hosts spring choir concert

A video clip from the Monday afternoon concert, held earlier today at the WCA High School auditorium.

You can find a photo album with 28 pictures from the concert by visiting the Herman-Hoffman Tribune website and clicking on "Dotphoto" and looking under the "West Central Area school events" folder.

http://www.hermanhoffmantribune.com

The WCA South elementary spring choir concert is this Friday, May 14, beginning at 2pm in the gymnasium.

Hope to see some of you at West Central Area's prom tonight! Grand March begins at 8pm at the High School

Look for photos and video from the event on Sunday.

Here's a link to the Herman-Hoffman Tribune's photo album from the WCA Prom: http://freescout.dotphoto.com/CPViewAlbum.asp?AID=6144155

Added on Tuesday night...Here's a video clip from part of the grand march.