Aid dollars come in for ND schools, with 15 districts receiving more than $15,000 in per-pupil funding so far
As billions of dollars in federal money flow into districts around the country meant to cushion the pandemic’s expensive necessities the results have been transformative for some schools.
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Manvel Principal Melissa Hiltner, left, visits in a Manvel classroom with middle-school teacher Jodie Wohlgamuth. Local school leaders there hope to use federal stimulus money on a $90,000 project to replace nearly 60-year-old school windows. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald
Manvel Public School is emerging from a long year of pandemic, just like every other district in North Dakota. And there’s work to be done.
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Children move sand last August as adults fill their shovels to toss the first ceremonial ground last October for the construction of the Magic City Discovery Center.
A pandemic and concerns about funding haven’t stopped construction in the Minot region.
“For us, construction has been strong,” said Dave Schwengler, Minot office manager for Houston Engineering. “The past year was a good year for construction. That was one of the industries that kept working through the pandemic.”
He expects more of the same for 2021.
“There’s a lot of big projects out there right now, even some development work starting to pick back up a little bit,” he said.
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Main Street, along with other parts of downtown, will be studied for economic development planning purposes with the help of a Main Street Initiative grant.
Minot is one of eight communities recommended by the North Dakota Department of Commerce to receive funding from round two of the Main Street Initiative Partners in Planning Grant.
The City of Minot is recommended for a $19,500 economic development/diversification grant.
Jonathan Rosenthal, economic developer with the City of Minot, said the money will help fund economic development planning that focuses on the downtown. The city looks to conduct building and green space assessments, examine the walkability of downtown, determine the potential for First Avenue North improvements and identify service gaps for possible business recruitment. The city also hopes to work with a partner agency on a mobility study to identify accessibility issues.
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Dry Weather Decreases Risk for Wheat Midge in 2021
Janet Knodel, Guest Writer
Soil samples in North Dakota indicate lower levels of overwintering wheat midge larvae (cocoons) for the 2021 season, says Janet Knodel, North Dakota State University Extension entomologist.
A total of 2,050 soil samples were collected from 22 counties in the fall of 2020 to estimate the statewide risk for wheat midge in the 2021 field season. The distribution of wheat midge is based on unparasitized cocoons found in the soil samples.
“The majority of the soil samples, 86%, had zero wheat midge cocoons in the soil,” Knodel says. “This is the record low since the wheat midge larval survey for overwintering cocoons started back in 1995. In 2018, we had another year with 84% of the soil samples with no cocoons.”