5. Consent Calendar
NOTICE TO PUBLIC - All matters listed are considered routine by the Board and will all be enacted by one (1) motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless good cause is shown prior to the time the Board votes on the motion.
A. Approval Of Minutes
Year-End December 2020 and Month of January 2021
6. Unfinished Business
B. Request To Authorize Memorial Park Project Competitive Bidding
C. Update On Campground Host Site
D. Request To Approve Amended Youth Sports Contracts
E. Request To Approve Plan For Community Action Grant
7. New Business
B. Request To Approve This One s For Hop Field Reservation
Bringing back 5th grade: Brainerd school admins discuss in-person learning challenges
While elementary students will begin returning to the physical classroom next week, the next learning model for fifth grade students has yet to be determined. 4:00 am, Jan. 13, 2021 ×
Forestview Middle School students leave school Thursday, Oct. 29. All middle and high school students in Brainerd will begin distance learning Thursday, Nov. 5. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch
Much of the Brainerd School District’s COVID-19 update Monday, Jan. 11, centered around fifth grade students and their unique predicament.
Superintendent Laine Larson and Assistant Superintendent Heidi Hahn updated school board members on the latest developments since Gov. Tim Walz amended the state’s Safe Learning Plan, allowing schools to implement phased reopenings. The shift, he said, was due to recent research showing younger children are less likely to develop severe symptoms from COVID-19.
Dispatch Top 10 - No. 4: Nisswa mayor controversy
Nisswa mayor gets arrested and then makes allegations against city employees. Nisswa City Council asks for his resignation and later votes against mayor s request for an investigation. 4:00 pm, Jan. 1, 2021 ×
A screen grab from the TikTok video taken of Nisswa Mayor Fred Heidmann s arrest.
The city of Nisswa received national attention after its mayor was arrested Aug. 29 following a profanity-laced tirade against two police officers conducting a traffic stop of a third party along Highway 371 in Nisswa.
Nisswa Mayor Fred Heidmann, whose term as mayor expired Thursday, Dec. 31, chastised Nisswa and Pequot Lakes police officers who were in the midst of conducting a Toward Zero Deaths traffic stop unrelated to the mayor, ending with his arrest for obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct.
Forestview Middle School students learned to program robots during virtual classes with multimedia specialist Jim Reed. 8:00 am, Dec. 31, 2020 ×
Jim Reed, multimedia specialist at Forestview Middle School in Baxter, explains the Edison program he used to teach students about programming robots during virtual classes offered through Community Education. Screenshot
In a time when extracurricular activities are few and far between because of the COVID-19 pandemic, one Baxter teacher is doing his part to keep students engaged.
“They’re looking for something to do,” Forestview Middle School multimedia specialist Jim Reed said of his students during this unusual time.
In normal years, Reed runs after-school STEM classes every sports season fall, winter and spring to appeal to students interested in science, technology, engineering and math. While he couldn’t stick to that typical schedule this year, he decided to improvise with virtual programming classes.
Student-led organization donates 10K to help youths with mental health illnesses
The Lighthouse Project and Northern Pines are continuing to help area students both with funds and through community messaging aimed at taking away the stigma around mental health and seeking help when it s needed. 1:00 am, Dec. 16, 2020 ×
Brainerd High School students Logan Carlson (left), Keaton Walkowiak, Kate Sullivan , director of opeations, Kim Schaefbauer, clinical director at Northern Pines, and Hayden Kvalevog, a student, talk Monday, Dec. 14, about the Lighthouse Project s donation to Northern Pines Mental Health Center. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch
It was the best Christmas present Northern Pines could have received $10,000 to go toward helping Brainerd and Baxter students in need of mental health services.