PEQUOT LAKES CLOSES OPEN ENROLLMENT

The Pequot Lakes School Board voted yesterday to close open enrollment. Superintendent Rick Linnell said he's received 18 calls since November 7th, the day voters in Crosby-Ironton and Brainerd School Districts said no to levy referendums. Linnell said more students at this time of the year may mean hiring more instructors and increasing average class size, things the board didn't want to do right now. Linnell said the board will probably look at re-authorizing open enrollment later next spring. And Linnell said the rumors that the Pequot Lakes School Board is considering a levy referendum of its own are not true