Dressed in a festive, Christmas-inspired suit jacket and bedazzled, blue tie probably wouldn’t earn him any “Best Dressed” plaudits, but it will certainly put Donny…
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Sophia Gonzalez holds a cutout of her second-grade teacher from Liberty Elementary School. Photo by Jesse Brothers, Sioux Cty Journal.
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The Sioux City Public Museum announced its Sioux City History Projects award recipients online on Saturday. For the first time in 29 years, the Museum…
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Over the last several weeks, East High student council members have been making heartwarming connections with the residents at Bickford Senior Living Community. Now, students…
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Sioux City Art Center Director Todd Behrens said middle school students are working toward a preset answer to a question in mathematics,…
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Photo: Watercolor artwork by Kacie Maynard, 6th grader at North Middle March is designated as Youth Art Month (YAM) to show the importance of art…
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Every time Esmeralda Sebastian Benitez looks down, she sees the colors of the rainbow. That’s probably because the North High School student uses her knees…
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The rolling backpack was grey with bright orange zippers. Made by Totto, a popular South American brand, the backpack had been 13-year-old Cristian Rubio’s hand luggage on his flight from Ecuador to the United States a week earlier. It was one of the few things of personal significance that he’d brought with him. “I had some crazy memories with it, like friends hopping on my backpack and racing each other,” said Rubio, now 18. He was glad he had something from home as he walked alone into North Middle School to start eighth grade in his new hometown of Sioux City, Iowa. Certainly, nothing else about his life was normal that November day. He and his older brother, Esteban, were staying with their grandmother, who had traveled to the states with them. The Rubios had decided to move...
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More than 550 students representing 105 schools from 17 different states competed Dec. 14-15 at West Des Moines’ Dowling Catholic High School’s Paradigm, an annual…
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The Sioux City East High School choir department is once again taking people back to the Renaissance Era. The group is hosting its annual Madrigal…
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