Take pictures, leave only footprints. As summer residents of Longville for the past six years, my wife and I have had the pleasure to experience some of Minnesota's true north country beauty.
So the School Board doesn't like discussion with its citizens. At its special meeting on August 6, it made clear that it would neither discuss nor answer any questions and instead proceed with a plan and approval of a November referendum that was defeated by the same citizenry in May, …
The Northland District (ISD #118) School Board has scheduled another vote in November hoping to get voter approval of a 27 million dollar bond issue to build a new school.
Recently there have been articles in this newspaper regarding the $26,220,000 bond referendum to build a new school, as well as the $6 million being spent in order to bring the air quality up to current mandated standards.
Once again I see a flurry of words swirl around the issue of funding for our local school, and I wonder if the participants in this controversy are missing the central point.
You don't need to live in Longville to be a Friend. I had a patron that came into the library and asked if she had to live in Longville to become a member of the Friends of the Library.
We understand that nobody likes to see their taxes increase. So it puzzles us that the consolidation and subsequent closing of the Northland School district is considered by some a viable option.
On November 9th, residents of the Northland Community School District will once again have the opportunity to vote on a building referendum. As is frequently the case when schools need public support, taxpayers begin asking questions about how their money is spent.
Northland Community Schools has invested a ton of money to provide its students with the technology necessary to prepare them for college and careers after high school.
As the late Yogi Berra once said, "It's déjá vu all over again". Just 6 months after the referendum was defeated to spend millions of dollars on a new school, the school board and administration are going to have another go at it.
