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Dakota County

Tribune

Farmington | Rosemount www.dakotacountytribune.com

and the surrounding areas September 28, 2017 • Volume 132 • Number 31

Upgrades coming to schools

NEWS District 194 talks TIES The Lakeville Area School District talked about issues about TIES technology consortium at a recent meeting. Page 2A

OPINION Stay connected to others Longtime community editor Laura Adelmann says newspapers will continue to remain a great way to stay connected to one’s neighbors. Page 4A

Parking, drop-off zones, entrances being redone at three Rosemount sites by Andy Rogers SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District 196 is planning to begin construction on several building, parking and access improvements around Rosemount High, Middle and Elementary schools soon. Officials spoke of plans the plans at the school with both the city’s Advisory

Planning Commission and District 196 School Board, recently. The plan intends to improve overall safety and it hopes to eliminate points of conflict between vehicles at all three schools. The campus accommodates almost 4,500 students and staff, but there have been limited changes to the parking and access around the site for several years.

Plans call for a redesign of the parking lot at the high school along with separate bus and parent drop off zones accessed through Chili Avenue. Traffic would be directed around the parking lot, according to Scott McQueen, Wold Architects and Engineers. It will also discourage drive-through traffic between Chili Avenue and South Robert Trail, and

include 32 new park stalls, new four-way stops signs and perhaps some speed bumps. McQueen said about 300 parents drop off their kids each day at the high school, more during bad weather. He also noted fewer high school students are driving to school. “The current layout, there’s lots of unorganized patterns happening in that zone,� McQueen said.

Homecoming fun

“Those who are parking, it can be chaotic to walk to the school.� The hope is there’s an “overall much calmer arrival and departure,� McQueen said. The project will also include the construction of a 12,000-square-foot entrance to the high school. During a School Board meeting earlier this year, See WORK, 6A

One last quiz before graduation

THISWEEKEND

Parents, students to be asked their opinions about ceremony’s future by Tad Johnson SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

With larger graduating classes expected in the coming years, the Farmington School District aims to ask district parents and students how they think the high school’s graduation should be run. Indoors or outdoors? On campus or off campus? Unlimited attendance or restricted to a few tickets for each student? Keeping the current $45 ceremony fee or more or less? The answers to these kinds of questions should help guide Farmington High School graduations into the future as the number of graduates is expected to climb. The current senior class includes 455 students, the junior class 544, and this year’s ninth-grade class is larger than that. Even though the graduation ceremony cost of about $25,000 represents only a sliver of the district’s annual budget, since it’s a culminating educational event that can be attended by a few thousand people opinions run high on when, where, and how much a per-student fee is. Director of Finance

Lone Oak Days entertains Friends of the Holz Farm held its Lone Oak Days fall event at the historic farm in Eagan last weekend. Page 15A

SPORTS

Irish, Tigers meet again The Rosemount and Farmington football teams met again on the gridiron with the Irish prevailing last week. Page 9A

PUBLIC NOTICE The Dakota County Tribune is an official newspaper of the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District. Page 10A

INDEX Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . 4A Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9A Public Notices . . . . . . 10A Classifieds . . . . . . . . . 11A Announcements . . . . 14A

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Rosemount High School held its homecoming weekend starting Friday, Sept. 22, with an all-school reunion party at the Rosemount Community Center to celebrate its 100th year. The event also included a coronation ceremony of the king and queen — Jaren Yambing and Gigi Freking. The rest of the court included Caroline Kelly, Kaci Thompson, and Ariel Nystrom and Marit Molde; back left, Tanner Wenzel, Tyus Edmund, Matthew St. Ores and Preston Strop, along with the young crown bearers. Photos courtesy of Jane St. Ores

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Fire, dance and song offer catharsis Local artist runs encore performances of Medusa by Amy Mihelich SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE

Kristin Freya believes too many stories are halfknown; and she’s dedicated her life to changing that. Freya is the founder, choreographer and director of Vox Medusa Dance Company based in Apple Valley’s Heartbeat Studios, where she also works as the artistic director. Vox Medusa, meaning “the voice of Medusa,� has spent the last 25 years retelling stories that have traditionally limited female characters’ experiences. They’ve done shows featuring women including Persephone, Ariadne and Cleopatra. This year, they are fi-

nally telling the story of their namesake — the story of Medusa. “For about 10 years we’ve been talking about doing Medusa, because she is an epic, archetypal everything,� Freya said. “The perspective we’ve been given is from Perseus, where she’s demonized. The origin story of how she became the thing that she is has been downplayed.� Medusa’s story is often simplified as that of a monster: one of three Gorgon sisters, Medusa is a winged human woman with venomous snakes for hair and a hideous face that turned all who looked upon it into stone. Freya said most people don’t know much about Me-

dusa’s backstory; instead, they are more familiar with the account of Perseus’ victory when he beheaded her. To do the story justice, Vox Medusa partnered with Infiammati FireCircus to perform Medusa at the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival. It’s been a long and intense process; they began working brainstorming, planning and choreographing in October 2016. In August, they used original dance, music, vocals, video arts and fire arts to tell the story of Medusa from Medusa’s perspective. They performed at Boom Island Park in Minneapolis, and were top five See MEDUSA, 8A

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Apple Valley based Vox Medusa Dance Company and Infiammati FireCircus present an encore performance of their 2017 Fringe Festival Show, Medusa, Thursday, Oct. 5, through Sunday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. at Boom Island Park in Minneapolis. The show seeks to give voice to an often overlooked perspective in Medusa’s story — her own.

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