Mapleton's additional 0.75% earned income tax failed by a vote of 623 to 451.Triway's 2.8-mil, three-year renewal was defeated 495 to 406.

MAPLETON, N.D. — A state mediation team will hear a dispute over teacher contracts between the teachers union and school board for the Mapleton Public School District.

A state fact-finding commission recommended a salary freeze in its report to end a contract impasse in the Mapleton school district.