“I’m with them,” he said of those who signed the petition. “I don’t believe that we should start the school year with a mandatory mask mandate. And in a way, I appreciate the fact that they did this petition because it does tell us that there are a lot of people in the community that are against mask mandates.”
Bob Nystrom
School board member Kevin Boyles agreed with Nystrom, saying Friday those who created and signed the petition are engaging in the issue in a productive manner.
“Some people from that group have reached out to me, and I think, I think what they’re really most interested in is just finding out where the district stands sooner rather than later,” Boyles said. “They don’t want us to wait until the week before school and then all of a sudden spring a decision on them. And I think that’s the right thing to do so that they can decide what they want to do about their kids.”
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Close to 150 Brainerd High School students were recognized for their fine arts achievements 9:27 pm, May 19, 2021 ×
Fine arts student Emily Haug shows her parents April and Don Haug her cereal box design called Funny Bunnies Wednesday, May 19, 2021, in the lobby of the Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts. Student artwork was on display before the Brainerd High School Fine Arts and Activities Celebration. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch
Two years ago Brainerd High School hosted its Fine Arts and Activities Celebration in its high school cafeteria like it had done for many years.
Last year, however, the banquet was forced into a virtual event due to the coronavirus pandemic. This year featured another change for the event, as the banquet was hosted Wednesday, May 19, in person in the high school’s recently opened Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts building.