Sydney Helgeson gave a special send off to her graduating class. A star was born when a North Dakota teen gave an epic high school graduation speech set to the song "Shallow." Sydney Helgeson took the ...

HINCKLEY, Minn. — A familiar sound was missing at one high school graduation ceremony on Friday evening. Last week, the Hinckley-Finlayson school board voted to not allow a traditional Ojibwe song at ...

When I first heard the song, my youngest daughter had warned me as we were driving to school that it made her friend’s mom cry. After hearing just a few bars, my throat clenched to a point where words ...

Graduation season is upon us, and as the old saying goes: “As we go on… we remember…” With the end of the school year approaching, it’s always fun to reminisce about our own educational endings and ...

HINCKLEY, Minn. — In a protest through songs, more than 50 students gathered outside Hinckley-Finlayson High School Wednesday afternoon, demanding a reversal to a school board decision to take a ...

Graduating seniors might have missed the typical graduation experience, but they won’t miss Miley Cyrus performing one of her old songs in their honor. The “Slide Away” singer is throwing it all the ...

A controversial Coney Island principal has pulled the plug on patriotism. Her refusal to let students sing “God Bless the USA” at their graduation has sparked fireworks at a school filled with proud ...

So you thought that being on your school’s graduation committee would be fun—or at least that it would get you out of calculus once a month. But now you’ve gotten to song nominations and you’re not ...

This morning I was working on my Festival picks for tomorrow's Weekend Ticket! section (way past my deadline, mind you), when I decided to do a little prep for my "Going Gonzo" show on WJRW-AM (1340).