There is a donor, through the Apostle Islands Community Fund, that has pledged to provide up to $150,000 for capital improvements. It requires that the school district this year spends $50,000 to replace the sand filter.

We've been encouraging people to vote 'yes' on the referendum, even though the wording on the referendum is obtuse, written by a lawyer. ... But the more 'yes' votes we have, the more pressure we can put on the school board to accept our proposal. That's the way we've been approaching it.

They need a new community on higher ground,

I think the kind of dialogue the community wants is back-and-forth discussion. We can't do that here at business meetings.

We still need to protect the resources to cover the community. We don't know if he's committed to that or not. A lot of his history suggests otherwise. We already can't cover the things we once did.

I don't know how this is being discussed at the federal level, but the word in the financial aid community is that 529s will be recorded as the parent's assets and assessed the same way as any other asset.