Brandon Valley superintendent updates board on construction, boundary tweak and meal applications; several routine motions approved

Superintendent Larson told the Brandon Valley School District 49-2 board on an evening meeting that the district’s Bergman Valley Elementary School and the Brandon Valley Middle School addition remain on schedule and that the district will make a small boundary adjustment because of a bridge closure affecting Highway 42.

Larson said the district is “looking to tweak that boundary line ever so slightly” so that, instead of following Highway 11, the boundary will follow the river south from Madison Street because of the Highway 42 bridge closure. He said affected families will receive letters in the next month with further instructions.

Larson also reminded families that to qualify for free or reduced-price school meals — and for the district to apply any internal assistance such as an…