Weve got time . All right. Christmas cards . Lets talk packages. Thp e are some critical dates that are well known that we need to get out there, get, you know, make sure that Everybody Knows in order for gifts to get to everybodys doorsteps properly. So tell me about those, sarah. Yes. If youre mailing overseas to our military personnel, you want to remember that the 11th is the last day for letters. If you want to make sure that your letters get there. Okay, thats tomorrow. Firstclass mail. Yes. But if youre sending a package and want to mail it Priority Mail exppe m1juarp e until the 16th. Mail early, thats always the best thing to do. Okay. As far as first class and c domestic mail, you have until the 19th. If you mail something by the 19th, anything first class will get to its recipient on time. Priority mail anything after that, youre giving yourself a panic attack. Okay. After that is your parcels, your Priority Mail parcels, by the 20th. And if youre really going a little bit
We will have a look at what is new this year in our region in a few minutes. We begin with a first date school under county Headstart Program are back in class after a report detailed emotional and physical abuse at three different schools. The report led the federal government to suspend the 6. 4 million it sent to the program. Stephanie ramirez is there live with more. Reporter county executive called this report embarrassing before the end the school ceo toward the Headstart Program. Their priority today was letting parents know that for now, the Headstart Program will continue as normal for the more students who participate in this program. Behindthescenes, there will be a transitional period from serious evaluations to be done. A group called the Community Development has stepped in. They will be the ones now providing the millions lost in the federal grant. This is only on an interim basis. The money is not completely lost. It is not clear the future if staff will need to be cut
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced $7.38 million in grant awards to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites in West Virginia.
Work is underway to clean up a chemical present in an old landfill in Northern Virginia that can lead to a central nervous system condition, which the congresswoman who represents the area had been diagnosed with.