Malta School Board still wrestling with Zortman bus route: 3 options on table

Following nearly 50 years of not having to worry much about how children living in Zortman would get to and from school, the Malta School Board is now in uncharted waters with that bus route.

Malta’s Craig Mangis retired from driving the daily 110-mile bus trip from Zortman to the Malta schools at the end of last school year and with just over six weeks before the 2018-19 school year gets underway, the Malta School Board decided to throw everything they have at the wall and see if anything sticks.

Trustee Carter Clausen made a motion during last Wednesday night’s July meeting that the...