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A newspaper account of the seven crewmen whose lives were lost in the September 1957 B-52 crash in present-day Inver Grove Heights.

Eyewitness accounts from ambulance driver Duane Zimmerman and local residents Elmer J. Perron and Mrs. Otto Holz, Jr., of Capt. Jack D. Craft, the lone survivor of the September 17, 1958 B-52 crash in Inver Grove.

Accounts of the B-52 crash from the Kahl family, whose farm was destroyed in the event, as well as from various eyewitnesses and first responders.

A couple of 2024 Star Tribune articles detailed how school districts in Minnesota are creating budget cuts in an effort to decrease the accelerated budget gap which resulted from factors such as inflation. In this process, schools are limiting the…

A Kare-11 video of Reporters Interviewing Lynn Newton and Keenan Buhl's parents on Keenan's Buhl's suicide

This interview with Kenneth Anich talks about life in Inver Grove as child during the 80s. Ken Anich grew up in Inver Grove Heights in the 80s and graduated from Simley in 1991. Ken describes life growing up in Inver Grove Heights as a child, then…

This interview took place on May 31, 2024, with Pat Gilbertson. Mr. Gilbertson has been an art teacher at Simley High School from 2000-2024 and worked at the middle school from 1991-2000. We interviewed him about how he got started as an art teacher,…

This was an interview with Gretchen Schwanz who graduated Simley in 2005 and is now a teacher and a track and field coach at Simley. This interview contained factors of her experience at Simley and in track and field when she was younger and her…

An interview with Nathan Peterson, a Simley alum who began attending Simley in 1996, graduating in 2000. In this oral history, Mr. Peterson discusses his experience at Simley High School, while highlighting the changes over time in the school system…

This is an interview with Patricia Williams, the former publications coordinator for ISD 199.