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HOULKA – The Chickasaw School District will be adding a new handicap bus to their fleet after the decision was made to purchase one at last weeks school board meeting.

WEISER — Masks are back off at Weiser schools, after a temporary rule that had been put in place Sept. 13 was rescinded Wednesday by the Weiser School District Board

Paige Ruiz, 32, was holding off getting the vaccine until the baby was born. She was nine months pregnant when she tested positive, had an emergency C-section and died two days later.

Solar and wind power have the same share of low-carbon electricity globally that they did 20 years ago, proving that they need to work together with nuclear energy for net zero to be achievable, John Gorman, president & CEO of the Canadian Nuclear Association, told delegates at the Nuclear Energy Assembly yesterday. Gorman was speaking in the panel discussion Nuclear Energy: A Tool for Meeting Global Goals at the US Nuclear Energy Institute event. The panel was moderated by Carol Berrigan, N...

New Superintendent Named For Hickory Public Schools Bryan W. Taylor New Superintendent Named For Hickory Public Schools June 9, 2021 The Hickory Public Schools Board of Education announced the selection of the district’s new Superintendent during a specially called meeting Tuesday (June 8). The new Superintendent is Dr. Bryan W. Taylor. A native of Mount Airy, Taylor replaces Dr. Robbie Adell, who is retiring after 37 active years with the North Carolina Public Schools. Assuming his duties l...

Black farmers say reverse discrimination has never been evident in their industry — but that may not stop the idea of it from being used to upend civil rights law.

Maryland announced Tuesday that it will end emergency federal unemployment benefits early, bringing the total of states doing so to 25. According to an analysis of Labor Department data by CNBC, the decision means that at least 3.7 million people will see a reduction or elimination of their unemployment benefits in the coming weeks, starting as soon as June 12. Unemployed workers in the 25 states – all led by Republican governors – will stop receiving the $300 per week federal supp...

Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images Let’s say you are unemployed and someone offers you $15 an hour to work a 40-hour week as a shift manager at McDonald’s in the US. That would give you $600 a week. It’s not a fortune. It’s not awful either. So all other things being equal, if you were in need of work you’d probably take it. But what if someone else was offering you a little over $600 a week if you didn’t take it? $650 perhaps — to stay at home instead. My guess is that you might th...

Maryland will soon stop paying jobless residents an extra $300 a week and end other federal pandemic unemployment programs, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday. The changes will take effect July 3. In addition to cutting off the weekly $300 boost, Maryland will discontinue three other programs: Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, and Pandemic ...

The extra pandemic-era unemployment benefits largely don’t keep workers from accepting new jobs, according to a new paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.