Smart Restart to be suspended, masks off outside
Fargo Public Schools suspends district s Smart Restart plan starting June 7, and allows students to take masks off outside. Written By: C.S. Hagen | ×
Fargo resident Kelly Turner speaks to the Fargo School Board about discontinuing mask wearing on Tuesday, May 11. C.S. Hagen / The Forum
FARGO In a board room crowded with concerned parents, the Fargo School Board voted to suspend the district’s Smart Restart Plan starting June 7, and to end mask usage by elementary students while in the playground and for middle and high schoolers while involved in outdoor activities starting Wednesday, May 12.
Grand Forks County Commission denies request to lower taxes for department store
Grand Forks County Commissioners denied tax abatement for one property, granted it for two others, and set the date of April 12 for reopening county buildings to the general public. 8:13 pm, Mar. 16, 2021 ×
The Grand Forks County Office Building, photographed on Nov. 23, 2015. Photo by Nick Nelson/Grand Forks Herald
The Grand Forks County Commission denied a request to reduce the property value of a chain department store.
Commissioners, after a lengthy back-and-forth discussion with an attorney representing Kohl’s department store, on Tuesday unanimously rejected a request to reduce the 2018 full and true value of the property from just over $6.2 million to $3.7 million. Had the commission moved to lower the value of the property, taxes for the retailer would have been lowered for that year.
Meet the people who make Safer Badgers work, part five
It’s a big job to help keep campus safe through the pandemic.
As part of UW–Madison’s Safer Badgers effort, people are needed to answer questions over phone and email, staff the testing sites, support the app, manage building access and more.
Meet some of the people who make this effort work and help keep our whole campus community safe. (For more profiles, see this.)
Sami, Badger Wellness Ambassador
Sami
If Sami’s looking to make a fashion statement, this aspiring horticulturist would probably pick muted earth tones over garish neon. But Sami didn’t take the Badger Wellness Ambassador job for its signature COVID couture: the “oh-so-flattering neon yellow vest.”
As the United States nears another year of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Wisconsin reopens for a third semester impacted by the deadly virus. With over 6,000 dead in the State of Wisconsin since the start of the pandemic and two vaccines now available for select populations, eyes turn to the UW administration, its students and Dane County to see where this semester will go.
To test or not to test
For Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Lori Reesor, it’s all about testing.
In the fall 2020 semester, after an outbreak hit Southeast dorms Sellery and Witte in late September, UW Housing students had to complete regular tests to continue living in the dorms. But for everyone else the large proportion who don’t live in or work with Housing UW didn’t mandate testing at all. And while the rate of positive tests started to decline throughout the semester, over 5,735 students and faculty have tested positive to date through UW testing.