For the third time in as many years, Buffalo High School Mock Trial students matched wits with some of the sharpest minds in Minnesota at the state mock trial tournament.
The tournament was held Thursday and Friday, March 2-3, at the Federal Courthouse in St. Paul. Buffalo finished 15th out of 16 teams, but just making it to the final competition was a significant accomplishment for a group that was short on experience.
Buffalo High School’s actors left a strong impression on judges at the 2023 State One Act Play Festival last week.
“Good job with a very powerful and stylistically tricky show,” wrote one judge. “I could tell everyone was in it together – working honestly to tell an important story.”
Sometimes the student becomes the teacher, but in the case of Danielle Olinger, the student has become the expert outside consultant.
The 2005 graduate of Buffalo High School, now a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado, returned to Buffalo Community Middle School on Tuesday, Feb. 14, to guide eighth-grade Quest students through a challenging simulated field geology activity.
When searching for a classroom that could challenge her own children beyond the advanced programming offered by their home district, Danielle Kelm found what she was looking for in Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools.
She also found a new professional destination, and in her third year of teaching English and Quest students at Buffalo Community Middle School has been nominated for 2023 Minnesota Teacher of the Year.
Over her 32-year teaching career, Jenny Boldt has been sustained by the same enthusiasm for exploration that led her to the classroom in the first place.
“I have always loved learning new things,” she said. “I’m curious about everything, all the time. My brain doesn’t shut off. So I thought I might as well make a job out of that, teaching younger students a love for learning, just like I had.”
A measure of her success in that regard came at the end of January, when Education Minnesota announced that Boldt is among just 131 teachers statewide who have been nominated for Minnesota Teacher of the Year.
The Buffalo High School One-Act Play, "Bury the Dead," took first place in the Section 5AA finals over the weekend, receiving No. 1 rankings from all three judges. Andover took second place.
The Class AA state one-act festival is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 9, at St. Catherine University's O'Shaughnessy Auditorium in St. Paul, with Buffalo performing at 11:45 a.m.
It’s a rare student who can simultaneously excel in the classroom, on the playing field and in creative expression, but Buffalo High School seniors Victoria Viteri and Matthew Scherber have distinguished themselves in all three areas to become the school’s Triple ‘A’ Award winners for 2022-23.
Congratulations to the 2023 MEGT Star of the North Award winner Bridgette Sturgeon. The award, which is presented by the Minnesota Educators of the Gifted and Talented, is presented at the group's yearly conference to a Minnesota student between grades five and eight who has shown outstanding accomplishment in academics, visual or performing arts, or leadership.
On December 13, the BHM School Board approved the tax levy for 2021 payable 2022. The approved tax levy represents a 2.21% decrease from the previous year. This means that assuming no change in property value, the average residential homeowner in BHM will see a reduction in the school portion of their property taxes of $63 for the 2022 tax year.
