Last month, the St. Paul post office welcomed a new postmaster.

A seemingly boilerplate policy passed by the St. Paul Board of Education during the group’s July meeting at the suggestion of the district’s attorneys once again was the focus of discussion during this month’s meeting of the district’s leaders. Last Wednesday night, during the St. Paul Board of Education’s September meeting, members of the board spent almost five minutes revisiting Policy 6037, which the board passed in July, and discussing the ramifications its passage had at the St. Paul Public Library. “There was some concern from the library board regarding Policy 6037,” noted St. Paul Superintendent Adam Patrick during his remarks on the agenda item. “Last week, they had a board meeting that I attended, and I explained to them that, nationally, there were some issues that patrons were bringing to school board members from their school libraries, and [the point of implementing the policy] was to try to make sure that there were some safeguards in place for that.” In July, the board approved a slew of new policies and policy changes. Among those that were added, at the suggestion of the school’s attorneys, was Policy 6037. That policy, which was titled “Selection and Review of Library Materials,” contained several options available to the board, with members of the St. Paul Board of Education ultimately deciding that, per policy, the selection of library materials should be left up to the media specialist and administration.

While discussions regarding county roads dominated what had been a relatively short meeting of the Howard County Commissioners last week, a number of other topics also came before the board, including several items concerning the county’s tower at the Farwell South Reservoir, “Little Sherman.”

A St. Paul home near the intersection of Sixth and Farnum streets caught fire just before 3:00 a.m. last Wednesday morning, with a stray neighborhood cat believed to be responsible for the blaze. According to St. Paul Volunteer Fire Department Training Officer Nathan Becker, a page went out from the Howard County Communications Center at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday morning, and local responders were quick to arrive on scene.