Wrangell Sentinel -

The wheels on the bus go round and round, but you might not hear them.

Wrangell was the only school district in Alaska to be awarded with a $395,000 grant last month to purchase an electric school bus through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program.

The awards are the first year of a five-year program totaling $5 billion created by the Infrastructure Act signed into law a year ago.

John Taylor, co-owner of Taylor Transportation, had been approached by a school bus manufacturer in Anchorage about the grant. Taylor Transportation contracts with the school district to...