{"id":12841,"date":"2013-02-14T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=12841"},"modified":"2013-02-14T10:40:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:40:20","slug":"binford-school-house-getting-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=12841","title":{"rendered":"Binford School House Getting New Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/oldschoolhouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12843\" title=\"oldschoolhouse\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/oldschoolhouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>BINFORD, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A 90-year-old red-brick schoolhouse that closed down a decade ago is getting new life in a small North Dakota town.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Officials in the Midkota School District say the old school in Binford is needed to handle an increase in enrollment. The district covers 600 square miles and includes five communities in east-central North Dakota.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The school opened in about 1920 and closed in 2000. It&#8217;s attached to the newer Midkota Elementary School through an enclosed lower-level walkway.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 District officials say the remodeling project will include roof and plumbing work and some improvements to classrooms.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The overcrowding forced the district to move this year&#8217;s pre-kindergarten class to a church.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Midkota School Board President Keith Johnson tells the Grand Forks Herald (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/12Eiu7P\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/12Eiu7P<\/a>) that the enrollment increase is a nice problem to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BINFORD, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A 90-year-old red-brick schoolhouse that closed down a decade ago is getting new life in a small North Dakota town. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Officials in the Midkota School District say the old school in Binford is needed to handle an increase in enrollment. The district covers 600 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12845,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12841\/revisions\/12845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}