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The ROCORI School District is a half century old. To celebrate, the district is holding an open house during Cold Spring's Hometown Pride Days on July 28th.

The ROCORI School District will soon have two new principals. At the board meeting Monday night, the school board approved offers of employment to Sam Court, and Mary Holmberg.

The ROCORI School District is seeing another slight uptick in enrollment numbers going into this school year. ROCORI will start the year with just over 2,075 students.

The ROCORI Spartans defeated the Sauk Rapids-Rice Storm 6-1 at Dick Putz Field Tuesday afternoon. The victory gives the Spartans the Section 5AAA title.

It’s a question brought up all the time by the national media: are high school students getting enough sleep? Locally, ROCORI, Sauk Rapids-Rice, Sartell and St. Cloud high schools all start between 8:15 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.

This week, WJON is featuring several area superintendents to highlight their school district before the 2015-2016 school year kicks off. Today, we highlight Scott Staska, superintendent of ROCORI schools. This is Staska's 14th year in the district.

I have learned in the past few months, that this group of ROCORI athletes can never be counted out. Tomorrow morning (AM 1390, pregame at 9:50am, 10am tip-off) the ROCORI Spartans boys basketball team (18-11) takes on top seeded Minneapolis Washburn (27-2), in the state 3A quarter finals.

It turns out, maybe it wasn't just that they had better players.  Maybe it wasn't such a great coaching job by Mike Rowe and his staff, after all. And maybe it was not the new broadcast team, either, that was the reason that ROCORI's football team was so dominant this year...

The ROCORI Spartans knew it wouldn't be easy. They were also well aware that most of the 'experts' picked Bemidji to beat them in Saturday's 4A Championship Game.

The ROCORI Spartans beat Hill-Murray on Saturday, in a very exciting and entertaining football game, 37-35, to advance to the state championship game. They will play the undefeated Bemidji Lumberjacks, who were super impressive themselves, this weekend in beating Mankato West. The Spartans will be the decided underdog for a third straight week.

The ROCORI Spartans quest for a state championship takes an interesting twist, this week. It's not surprising that they are going to run into a very powerful, well-coached team, from the Metro area.  That's exactly what you would expect in the state 4A semi final game...

The improbable dream run to a state championship continues for the Rocori Spartan. It's about time to stop making the 'Cinderella' comparisons to the Rocori football team. Simply put, Cinderella NEVER looked this good!