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TOP STORY Student finds her voice and makes a difference at UW-Eau Claire – Barron County
13 Mar 2022
News, Barron
Grace Arrigoni was unsure about her future career path when she graduated from Rice Lake High School amid the start of the pandemic in spring 2020.
Arrigoni didn’t want to attend a four-year university without a definitive major and felt a small-school environment in her own backyard could be a good fit for the start of her postsecondary education.
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