WATERVLIET, N.Y. — Although many would say 2020 turned out to be an “unprecedented” year due to the coronavirus pandemic, first-year Watervliet Mayor Charles Patricelli still touted many accomplishments during
School board approves updated calendar, mask policy
By Sue Sitter - | Jan 30, 2021 The Rugby Public School Board voted at a special meeting Jan. 20 to adopt an updated calendar for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year and extend mask policies in both Ely Elementary and Rugby High School.
The board will review the mask policy Feb. 9 to decide whether it should be changed.
Superintendent Mike McNeff told the board the policy had already been updated in November in accordance with a state mask mandate put in place by Gov. Doug Burgum.
“That expired on (Jan. 18) at 8 o clock,” McNeff said of the statewide mandate. “I wanted to make sure no one thought we were done doing this so I pushed out the message on Friday on social media.”
School board discusses return to five-day school week, expanded activities
By Sue Sitter - | Jan 16, 2021
Students in Rugby public schools could see a return to a five-day class week soon after the school board heard a proposal from administrators to transition to a traditional calendar beginning Feb. 1.
The transition to a new-normal schedule of five days per week was one of several topics for discussion at the Rugby Public School Board’s regular meeting, held Jan. 12 in the Rugby High School library.
The board voted to review a preliminary plan to return to normal instructional days at a special meeting to be held Tuesday, Jan. 19.
Council focuses on rec complex issues
By Sue Sitter - | Dec 12, 2020
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A worker takes advantage of warmer winter weather to finish a project at the Rugby Recreation Complex.
The Rugby Recreation Complex took the spotlight at the regular monthly meeting for the Rugby City Council Monday, Dec. 7 at city hall.
Austin Harles of MBF Drain Tile Systems, LLC, attended the meeting by phone to describe drain tile work he placed underground at the baseball diamonds at the complex.
“The drain tile’s 100 percent in,” Harles said. “All of it’s in.” Harles said additional work had yet to be completed to even the field, replace soil and plant grass seed to replace sod that had been removed early in October. The sod was destroyed by a snap of cold weather and light snowfall during that time.