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Rockford students participate in French exchange program

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Rockford FB2B students (l-r) Hailey Brenner, Sarah Uhall and Mikayla Kruse assemble a “Community Book” which will introduce the French students to the Rockford area.

The French-American Student Exchange Program (FASEP) is offering a new foreign exchange opportunity at Rockford middle schools. The “French Back-To-Back” (FB2B) program is a two-week reciprocal exchange between middle school students in Rockford and Bailly-Romainvilliers, France. Rockford parent, Michelle Williams, is directing the program locally with the full support and cooperation of Rockford Public Schools. [...]

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Student bags 200 pound trophy buck Nov. 20

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Josh Kleefisch, a sixth-grader at East Rockford Middle School, bagged a 200-pound, eight-point trophy buck on Sunday, Nov. 20. Hunting with his dad and grandfather, it was his first shot at a deer with his new 4.10 shotgun. The deer only traveled about 40 yards before Kleefisch spotted it lying between two logs in the woods. Kleefisch said, “I began to shake after I fired. When it walked in, all I saw was big horns and it was smelling the ground.”

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