Grapevine-Colleyville ISD salaried and hourly employees will receive payment for the three days the district was closed during Winter Storm Fern in late January, following approval at a Feb. 23 school board meeting.

The overview: Trustees approved paying the district’s employees for the missed days that will not be made up in the instructional calendar. Hourly employees that worked at a closed physical location will receive time and a half for their hours worked, according to district documents.

What they're saying: “A special thank you to some employees that worked so hard and some dad’s clubs that stepped in early on that Thursday morning,” trustee A.J. Pontillo said. “They made sure that the walkways were clear, the driveways were clear [and] the parking spaces were clear.”

Local boutique, Ruthie Jane’s, has closed its doors in Grapevine.

The overview: The woman-owned business sold boutique women’s clothing, gifts and jewelry. In January, the business began a storewide sale, according to a social media post.

What else: The owner of the boutique announced plans to retire, which led to the closure. Ruthie Jane’s originally opened in Grapevine in April 2018.

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MP Materials Corp. announced it has selected a 120-acre site in Northlake for its 10X campus, a planned large-scale earth magnet manufacturing campus in the Alliance area of Fort Worth.

Located less than 10 miles from another MP Materials’ Independence facility in Fort Worth, the 10X facility is expected to contribute to the company’s total production capacity of approximately 10,000 metric tons of neodymium-iron-boron, or NdFeB, rare earth magnets per year once it is operational, according to a news release.

A closer look: The site, which will be acquired from Hillwood, is within the AllianceTexas development and was selected following a national site evaluation process led by CBRE, a commercial real estate company.

MP Materials is expected to invest more than $1.25 billion into the project and create 1,500 direct manufacturing and engineering jobs with an average annual salary of $74,315, according to previous reporting.

Quote of note: “AllianceTexas continues to attract advanced manufacturing that creates jobs, diversifies our economy and strengthens America’s supply chain,” Hillwood Chair Ross Perot Jr. said.