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Print this article Parents have clashed with school boards about masking requirements in classrooms this fall, indicating the contentious debate about how to return to a pre-pandemic normal is far from settled. “A lot of it is a microcosm of what you see nationally … it's either you are for masks and you think they help, or you think they're very harmful and they do no good,” said Tucker McClendon, member of the board for Hamilton County schools in Tennessee. “That's the spectrum we're on. There's no, ‘it worked, and now it needs to be gone’-type thing. It's ‘they’re ineffec...

ajohnson@minotdailynews.com Patrick Robert McKee, 75, Burlington, who has been using the alias William Patrick O’Hara and had worked at Walmart in Minot, has been indicted in U.S. District Court on one count of using another man’s Social Security number and name to establish a new identity. He allegedly used the stolen identity on a USDA home mortgage loan application in North Dakota in 2017, to obtain health insurance from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota, and to obtain hydrocodone in July 2020. According to court documents, the Minot Social Security Administration field office sen...

Demorest mayor sues Piedmont president, trustees for alleged conspiracy Demorest mayor sues Piedmont president, trustees for alleged conspiracy Demorest Mayor Rick Austin is suing the top leadership of Piedmont University for alleged conspiracy. Austin claims Piedmont president Dr. James Mellichamp and members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees unlawfully conspired to remove him from his position as a tenured biology professor at the school and his elected position as mayor of Demorest in retaliation for an affidavit he submitted in a former colleague’s wrongful termina...

Municipal races While no city or county positions were up for reelection on Tuesday, some villages and towns had important local races, some with sweeping changes.  The town of Wausau will have a new chairperson, with Matthew Lee Baer beating out incumbent John Prahl with 56% of the vote, totaling 372 versus Prahl's 295. Incumbents Barbara Ermeling and Nate Fiene will remain on the Weston Village Board and welcome newcomer Hooshang Zeyghami, who narrowly beat out incumbent Jon Ziegler by 11 votes, according to unofficial results George Peterson will remain Rothschild village president, after...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WAOW) -- On April 6, voters in Wausau will be selecting four of the seven candidates to serve on the Wausau School District's Board of Education. Incumbent Patrick McKee is running for his fourth term on the board, and is currently serving as it's Vice President. McKee says he's dedicated to making WSD the premier district in the area, but his top priority is getting back up to speed after the pandemic interrupted education. "We had achievement gaps before, they only been exacerbated by the on-goings of the last year. So, I think getting kids back up to their appropriate grade ...