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Proposed school consolidation could save $1.75 million annually. Written By: Pamela D. Knudson | 10:16 pm, Dec. 17, 2020 × The Mark Sanford Education Center, headquarters of Grand Forks Public Schools. (Grand Forks Herald photo) Grand Forks School Board members during a special meeting Thursday heard the rationale behind an array of recommendations by its Facilities Task Force, charting the district’s future. The task force’s recommendations include consolidating Valley Middle School and West, Wilder and Winship elementary schools and replacing them with a K-8 sc...

Proposed school consolidation could save $1.75 million annually. Written By: Pamela D. Knudson | 10:16 pm, Dec. 17, 2020 × The Mark Sanford Education Center, headquarters of Grand Forks Public Schools. (Grand Forks Herald photo) Grand Forks School Board members during a special meeting Thursday heard the rationale behind an array of recommendations by its Facilities Task Force, charting the district’s future. The task force’s recommendations include consolidating Valley Middle School and West, Wilder and Winship elementary schools and replacing them with a K-8 sc...

A petition is circulating around the West Delaware School District, calling for a bond referendum for facility improvements. Last year, the school district created a task force made up of community members, who spent six months learning about the needed improvements from engineers and the school principals and touring the facilities. Caitlyn Scherbring, who served on the Facilities Task Force, says their recommendations have been brought forth to the school board and now it’s time to take the next steps. A referendum petition is being circulated to have the school board consider a $20 milli...

Talk of the Facilities Task Force bookended the Monday, Dec. 14 regular meeting of the Waverly-Shell Rock School Board, made available for viewing via Zoom. A recommendation from the Facilities Task Force is expected Wednesday, Dec. 16. Vice President Dennis Epley read aloud to Board members a portion of the District Ethics Policy at the start of the meeting. The end-of-meeting discussion laid organizational details for the Thursday, Dec. 17 Special Meeting, where a Board decision will be made on the Facilities Task Force recommendation. Between those bookends, regular business was conducted....

Herald reporters cover events on Wednesday, Dec. 16. Written By: Kim Wynn | × Between now and mid-January, about 80,000 North Dakotans will be inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine, and Grand Forks Public Heath workers are preparing for their piece in the largest mass vaccination effort in U.S. history, according to a Herald story written by reporter Hannah Shirley. Local vaccination plans will continue to take shape over the coming days, said Haley Bruhn, who is coordinating vaccination efforts for Grand Forks Public Health. Still, she said, it's difficult to know what the c...