

Every day, you'll meet with students one-on-one or in small groups to provide extra practice and build skills. Take action as a tutor because kids who are strong readers by the end of 3rd grade are positioned to be strong learners for the rest of their lives.Īs a Reading Tutor, you'll be placed at a local school where you'll help students in kindergarten through third grade to become better readers. Princeton Union-Eagle was published weekly between June 1976 and October 2016, when it merged with Mille Lacs County Times to form Union-Times.Thousands of children need extra help to read at grade level. In 1976, the newspaper was combined with the Princeton Eagle to form the Princeton Union-Eagle. The Princeton Union changed hands many times over the next 15 years. She sold the Princeton Union in August 1959 to Glenn and Norma Hage, who had previously published the Mora Kanabec County Times. Dunn continued in both positions for 39 years, incorporating the Milaca Tribune and discontinuing the Milaca newspaper in 1928. Their daughter, Grace, appeared as publisher and co-editor in the following issue, having been associate editor since September 1920. On October 28, 1918, Robert Dunn died, and his wife, Lydia, managed the newspaper until February 9, 1922. In 1917, Dunn purchased the Princeton News, combining its assets with those of the Princeton Union, and discontinuing the acquired title. Dunn’s editorial pages make clear his determination to bring the railroad to Princeton, his attack on the lumber companies for non-payment of taxes, and his support of the good roads movement. In 1904, he ran for governor, but lost a close race to the popular Democrat, John A. Dunn could now boast that the Union was "the official paper of Mille Lacs County and the Village of Princeton." Like many publishers of country newspapers at the time, Dunn gradually became a force in state and regional politics and was elected to numerous positions on the Republican Party platform. Soon after the Union’s first issue appeared, Brocklehurst discontinued the Princeton Appeal. He soon decided to go into the newspaper business for himself with the Princeton Union. Within one week, however, Dunn had changed the voice and politics of the newspaper, gaining local favor. Leaving town for a short trip, Brocklehurst appointed Dunn as temporary editor. Brocklehurst to work for the Democratic weekly, the Princeton Appeal. Having previously apprenticed in the newspaper business for a number of years in St. Dunn, who published the Union for 42 years, arrived in Princeton in 1876 at the age of 22 after emigrating from Ireland in 1870. The reporting on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe on the nearby reservation was largely negative.

The paper printed mainly local and state news but did have some coverage of major national and international news events. Dunn, the Princeton Union was proudly Republican in its editorial politics. The newspaper quit using patent pages on February 16, 1895, and thereafter contained between eight and 16 pages. Princeton, located in central Minnesota and the seat of Mille Lacs County, was known as an important supply base and trading post for the pineries along the Rum River, as described in a special article issued on January 1, 1879, "Princeton, Its Stores, Mills, and Shops." The Princeton Union began publishing weekly with a standard four-page, five-column format the inner two pages consisting of patent content purchased from a news source vendor. The Princeton Union circulated its first issue on December 30, 1876, almost a year before the village of Princeton was organized by the Minnesota legislature in 1877. Union-times (Princeton, Minn.) 2016-current Browse the title

Issues from this title can only be accessed from the Gale Family Library at the Minnesota History Center. Princeton union-eagle (Princeton, Minn.) 1976-2016 Browse the title The Princeton union (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976 Browse the title
