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Third time’s the charm for new Parkview principal

by Special to the Herald Times on August 5, 2012

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2011 — The new Parkview Elementary School principal is returning to Rangely for the third time in 28 years. Mike Kruger says returning here is “like coming back to family.”

RANGELY I New Parkview Elementary School principal Mike Kruger has Rangely in his veins.
The three-time resident first came to Rangely with wife Susie in 1984, when daughters Elizabeth and Jessica were 4 and 1. Kruger and his family moved from Michigan for him to teach English…