On Nov. 1, 2017, a feature article in the Sawyer County Record titled “LCO grad on her way to being Dr. Cooper” told the story of Mariah Star Cooper, the 2012 LCO High School valedictorian, who was beginning her first year of medical school at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Now, four years later, Cooper is officially Dr. Cooper M.D., after graduating May 7, and is preparing to begin her residency in psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison.
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