The Bemidji City Council will hear an update from MnDOT about the planned construction on Highway 197. No formal action is expected during this work session tonight, but the council will hear the results of the latest study for the project. The initial plan presented to the council over two years ago included a series…
The Bemidji School Board discussed at length the possibility of changing the district’s quarantine guidelines but no formal action on them passed the floor. Board member Jeff Haack initially offered up a motion to change all instances of a 10 or 14-day quarantine to a 7-day, weighing the COVID risks compared to the high incidence…
The Bemidji City Council voted unanimously to enter a contract with Conventions, Sports, and Leisure, or CSL, for the future of the Sanford Center. CSL would conduct an assessment of the event center as well as facilitate the interviews for a new management company. According to the CSL proposal, this assessment would include an evaluation…
Work has begun for Bemidji’s behavioral health crisis center. According to a release from Sanford Health, the inpatient psychiatric facility is a partnership with Beltrami County and will be the first of its kind to offer adult psych beds within 90 miles of Bemidji. The Behavioral Health Crisis Center will also be the first to…
Bemidji State University assistant professor of biology Dr. Jacob Haus and some of his students will soon conduct evening spotlight surveys of the city’s deer population. According to a release from the city, these surveys will be in Ward 5, Ward 4 and the Bemidji Regional Airport area. The activity is sanctioned while appearing to…
The Bemidji City Council voted 4-2 to move forward with the clean-up of the Rail Corridor. St. Paul Port Authority’s Monte Hilleman described Sanford Health’s desire to construct a Wellness Center at the brownfield site near Bemidji’s downtown as a “once in a lifetime opportunity.” The St. Paul Port Authority will move forward with investigating…
The Bemidji City Council will discuss two Rail Corridor-related items during their work session this evening. The council will consider a site analysis agreement with Sanford Health and the Greater Bemidji Development Corporation, as well as a memorandum of understanding with Kraus Anderson. Sanford Health hopes to build a Wellness Center in the city-owned land…
Mayor Jorge Prince jointly made a proclamation to declare the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day during the Bemidji City Council meeting. Council members Audrey Thayer and Dan Jourdain, the council’s first Indigenous members, delivered some of the remarks. The council also discussed a feasibility study for next year’s street renewal project. Roads…
COVID infections are the highest they’ve ever been in Beltrami County, but hospitalizations are not at the same levels they were last year during the November surge of COVID-19. Beltrami County Public Health Director Megan Heuer and Sanford Health of Northern Minnesota CEO Susan Jarvis delivered a presentation on the local COVID situation to the…
The Bemidji City Council and the Beltrami County Board of Commissioners will hear updates on the local COVID situation during their meetings this week. Beltrami County Public Health and Sanford Health will make the presentations. BCPH recently reported over 340 active cases were being monitored. More than 76 percent of Beltrami’s adult population has received…
