5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (224+ words) DETROIT LAKES — We are concerned by the Detroit Lakes School Board's decision to direct the removal of rainbow stickers and symbols from district facilities. For many LGBTQ+ students, families, educators, and allies, these symbols represent belonging, acceptance, and the promise…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (104+ words) Detroit Lakes Tribune Letter: 'Rainbow stickers' represent Marxist, leftist, oppressed-versus-oppressor identity politics Why would school board allow it when they know that it will split the community between those who favor including political indoctrination in schools versus those who do…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (461+ words) DETROIT LAKES — As the parking lot at Roosevelt Elementary and Detroit Lakes Middle School welcomed its first few cars around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1, Detroit Lakes Middle School Principal Mike Suckert directed families and students across the crosswalk. Greeting students at…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (634+ words) DETROIT LAKES — Landon Moore, 9, of Detroit Lakes, set out on Saturday, Aug. 22, from the shoreline of Little Detroit Lake outside the old laundromat on West Lake Drive, in a sailboat — one he had been learning to handle since joining the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1082+ words) DETROIT LAKES — A school board mired in dysfunction. A community divided. And a muddied outcome to Monday's Detroit Lakes School Board meeting left those in attendance without clear answers about how the district should move forward. But when Detroit Lakes…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (343+ words) DETROIT LAKES — Recent objections to the Detroit Lakes School Board’s decision to reestablish control over what is displayed in our classrooms, hallways, doors, and windows may seem surprising to some. But they shouldn’t be. The issue quietly began when some…...