LM WIND POWER

More than 140 LM Wind Power employees have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Interesting article in Saturday’s Herald about the Grand Forks EDC, LM Wind Power and the pandemic.

A mass test for the coronavirus last week in Grand Forks yielded a few more dozen positive cases.

The Herald article, “LM Wind Power quarantine order could be difficult to enforce” (April 21) made me sad. Is this what kind of community we are? LM employees are already being kept in their homes for a problem they did not cause. According to the article, they could be fined and put in jail. It implied that their names should be released and police should monitor their actions. The perspective of the article implies they should have punitive actions for being exposed to Covid-19.

Dave Englund is a boilerhouse foreman with American Crystal Sugar, working at the company’s Drayton, N.D., factory where millions upon millions of pounds of sugar are produced each year. It’s hard, honest work, but amid the coronavirus pandemic, it’s grown stranger.

The head of Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corp. responds to questions related to the outbreak of coroanvirus cases at LM Wind.

What more should Grand Forks Mayor Mike Brown have done about the growing coronavirus outbreak at LM Wind Power?

GRAND FORKS — The major target for coronavirus testing in Grand Forks Thursday, April 23, was, for the most part, a no-show.

The North Dakota National Guard plans to test another large batch of people for coronavirus at the Alerus Center parking lot in Grand Forks.