Correction: There were only two candidates for Library Director

In our story on page three last week – “Library Board approves $3,800 for consultant to help in director search” – we reported that board chairman Mary Jane Dawson said there were three applications as of April 14.
Dawson said she said there were two applications and she wanted a correction.
We regret the misunderstanding.
School Board clarification
On page 13 in the April 23 edition, we published a story “James Williams gives school board update on bus garage fire” in which School Supt. Van Tassel is said to have said it is all right to have the first reading of a change to a board policy on bullying in a work study session, since the second and final reading would be at a regular meeting. We wrote Van Tassel said that was good enough.
The superintendent’s assistant, Pam Johnson, sent an email saying, “Someone brought to my attention …” that we quoted the superintendent. (She doesn’t read the Independent and doesn’t let it into the administration building because she finds it too negative to Van Tassel, so she couldn’t have read it herself.)
Johnson tried to clarify that under Board Policy the first reading may be done at any meeting, “as there is no action taken, but that adoption would take place at the next regular meeting.”
She said he said the board has handled first readings in this manner before. She referred to a section in the board Bylaws and Policies that said a first reading may be done at any meeting.
The reason I asked at the meeting if this was right, and even included it in the story, was because in my 60 years or so of covering municipal and school board meetings I’ve never seen a first reading taken in a workshop. Workshops have always been for discussing matters but not for taking action.
— Rosemary K. Otzman, editor