The Minnetonka School Board gave the go-ahead Feb. 5 for the opening of the School for the Exceptionally Gifted at Excelsior and Scenic Heights elementary schools for the 2009-10 school year. Mark ...

By Forrest Adams Graham Doran, 10, hosted an 11-year-old Chinese boy from Beijing and brought him to school last week. The Excelsior Elementary fifth-grader said getting to know Liu Jia Ming, ...