The Eden Valley-Watkins High School Drama Club will perform the comedy “You Can’t Take It With You” by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday at the high school cafeteria stage in Eden Valley.

The Eden Valley-Watkins School Board appointed Julie Meyer to a vacant seat at its regular meeting Monday.

Meyer, who ran for School Board in November, will fill the position held by Dave Ruhland, who resigned from the board in April after purchasing a home in another school district, according to EV-W Superintendent Larry Peterson.

The Eden Valley-Watkins School Board will be filling an open seat after board member Dave Ruhland handed in his letter of resignation.

EV-W Superintendent Larry Peterson said Ruhland's resignation came after he recently purchased a new house outside of the school district boundaries. Since he will no longer be living within the EV-W district, he resigned.

The Eden Valley-Watkins Knowledge Bowl team will make an appearance at the state tournament Thursday and Friday at Cragun’s Conference Center in Brainerd.

The team of Simon Kern, Rheanne Zimmerman, Drew Stommes and Alexa Bulau placed second in Class A at the regional competition March 31 at Celebration Church in Sartell. The top two teams in each section advance to state. Class AA teams earning state berths were St. Cloud Tech, Sauk Rapids-Rice and Sartell.

The storm that covered much of the state in another blanket snow Thursday and this morning forced area schools to call off classes Friday.

Litchfield, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City Eden Valley-Watkins and Kimball schools all will be closed today.

Litchfield Early Childhood program also cancelled preschool screenings for 8:20 and 10:20 a.m. Parents with screenings later than that were urged to check the weather before venturing to the screening.

Crackerjack Preschool in Litchfield announced it would have no morning preschool classes.

The Eden Valley-Watkins School Board approved $111,000 in cuts last week in anticipation of a 2008-09 budget shortfall.

Superintendent Larry Peterson said March 25 the board made the cuts through attrition, a restructure of the district’s music program and not filling open positions.

The board will fill two elementary retirements with younger teachers and not fill a paraprofessional position. High school industrial technology teacher Tim Rice requested a one-year leave of absence, which also will go unfilled, Peterson said.

Eden Valley-Watkins School Board members received a mixed financial assessment at Monday’s board meeting.

Superintendent Larry Peterson said Tuesday the board reviewed its revised 2007-08 school budget, which appears to have a $190,000 surplus. Unfortunately, the 2008-09 budget may be in the negative.

“Next year, looks like we’re down $109,000,” Peterson said.

Crime investigators have been called to the scene of a burglary where Mr. Smith recently came home to find someone robbing his apartment. Small blood-stained pieces of clothing have been taken back to the forensics lab. It appears the suspect cut himself on a broken glass door in haste to get away.

The crime investigators use anti-serums to test the blood samples of four suspects, apprehended by police, as they try to match blood type with the guilty party.