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Published April 21, 2009, 12:00 AM

Photo Gallery: Hundreds attend Duluth School Board meeting


Let Duluth Vote supporters including Nancy Derosier (from left), Nicki Derosier and Anne Humes give Trina LeGarde (not in photo) a standing ovation after she addressed the School Board, during their meeting Tuesday night. (Amanda Hansmeyer/ ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)

  • Let Duluth Vote supporters including Nancy Derosier (from left), Nicki Derosier and Anne Humes give Trina LeGarde (not in photo) a standing ovation after she addressed the School Board, during their meeting Tuesday night. (Amanda Hansmeyer/ ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
  • Holly Ostazeski, 11, is against the red plan because where the division line is for students going to Morgan Park or Woodland, she would have to go to a different school than all her friends and take a bus 14 miles to Morgan Park. She spoke at the Duluth Public Schools School Board meeting Tuesday night. (Amanda Hansmeyer/ ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
  • "I'm here to publicly admit I am in support of your long range facilities plan," says Chris Lane to the Duluth Public Schools School Board Tuesday night during the public comment time of the meeting. Lane, who has three kids-one in high school, one in middle school and one in elementary school- then went on to say "I do get the feeling everyone wants a school in their neighborhood, but not next to their house." (Amanda Hansmeyer/ ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
  • As a supporter of the long rage facilities red plan addresses the Duluth Public Schools School Board at the podium, members of the audience call that his time of three minutes is up. Tuesday’s meeting brought both supporters and opponents of the red plan to the board meeting since the board was voting on the eastern high school portion of the plan. (Amanda Hansmeyer/ ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
  • Rodger Pearson addresses the issue of safety at Ordean Middle School as he brings up the fact that a child could get hit by a car, during the public comment times of the school board meeting at Tuesday night. (Amanda Hansmeyer/ ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
  • A group of Duluth Central students erupt in applause and cheers as their classmate Brandon Pesta (not in photo) addresses the School Board in opposition to the red plan in the Old Historic Central Board Room Tuesday night. Pesta said, "We will not go down until things are made right, Central will survive and move on. We are the Duluth Central Trojans." (Amanda Hansmeyer/ ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)