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Minot State University students will graduate this Friday with big plans for the future after a year filled with COVID-19 precautions.
“Things have certainly been different this year,” said Jordan Will, an accounting major.
Will, who also has participated on the MSU football and wrestling teams, said he was grateful to have been able to keep playing, albeit with a lot of testing protocols in place to make it viable.
He’s also glad that his family and friends will be there to help him celebrate this year.
Minot State’s 106th Commencement Exercise will be live with limited capacity starting at 10 a.m. Friday in the MSU Dome. MSU will honor its 2021 and 2020 graduating classes at the ceremony as 2020’s live event was canceled due to COVID-19.
Grand Forks’ corporate centers have attracted a handful of suitors thus far
For years, Grand Forks leaders have anticipated selling the city s two corporate centers. A sale may be forthcoming this summer, and a handful of people have expressed an interest in buying one or both of the buildings, but city staff have yet to formalize a process for that sale. 7:00 am, Apr. 6, 2021 ×
Part of the Corporate Center in downtown Grand Forks. (April Baumgarten/Grand Forks Herald)
A handful of potential buyers have kicked the tires on Grand Forks’ two publicly-owned corporate centers, but city administrators still have to put together a process by which they’d evaluate offers on either or both buildings and, ultimately, sell them.
Mar 3, 2021
Minot’s MAGIC Fund listed more than $10 million in assets at the end of 2020, although that includes some restricted funds and an outstanding loan that the city is in court to try to collect.
The Minot City Council received the report of the MAGIC Fund Screening Committee at its meeting Monday.
The $10 million in assets includes $750,000 committed to Souris Basin Planning Council for a business revolving loan fund and $24,341 remaining from $300,000 set aside for development of a communitywide branding strategy. It also included a $1 million overdue loan repayment from parking ramps developer Cypress Development.
The city terminated its agreement with Cypress in March 2018 after finding the developer in default on about $3.53 million, which included $1.75 million in loans, plus interest.
The Perham-Dent School Board heard about how essential child care during distance learning has been structured Written By: RosaLin Alcoser | ×
Perham High School (Focus file photo)
With all grades except kindergarten through second grade currently in distance learning, the Perham-Dent Public School District is providing child care for families of children in grades three through six who have been deemed as essential workers.
Prairie Wind Middle School’s Intervention Specialist James Mulcahy updated the Perham-Dent School Board on the structure of the school’s current child care situation at the school board meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 9.
Mulcahy said child care is housed in the middle school has seen between 26 and 38 students with students in the third grade making up the highest proportion of the students in care.