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The Village of Mount Pleasant Strategic Plan 2020-2024 took one year to complete. Beginning in 2018, seven elected officials, 36 appointed officials, one administrator, seven department heads, 20 managers, three outside consultants and approximately 140 employees spent six months creating the vision, mission and values utilizing input from the public. Each one of the village’s committees, commissions and boards participated. Three public open houses were held in 2018 and 2019 where numerou...

As a former school board member and vice chair, I am dismayed by the events at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Montgomery County School Board, especially the conduct of my former colleague, Board Chair Marti Graham. Ms. Graham’s actions to limit board discussion, move up a previously scheduled vote, and eliminate public address on a topic that affects the entire community are worrisome. The topic of discussion for nearly five hours was whether to change the attendance phase and level f...

Penn State students aren’t the only ones who raise money for THON. The Dance Marathon Alumni Interest Group is an organization that gives alumni the opportunity to remain an active part of the THON community. "Hope from Coast to Coast" is a fundraiser the organization hosts every year benefiting THON. It started five years ago as a virtual event in which alumni would run or walk as many miles as they could in the week leading up to THON. This year, though, the fundraiser entailed a 46-Day ...

There’s plenty to be angry about after suffering through the past week’s winter storms. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas made promises it couldn’t keep, and one of our senators

A woman walks her dog in the snow Tuesday. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript Though the power may be back on and the freezing temperatures are going away, there are still more ways Norman residents can help their neighbors moving out of last week’s winter storms. After freezing temperatures left many residents isolated, cold and some without power this past week, Michelle Evans, homelessness program coordinator for the City of Norman, said that she was hear...

Feb 21, 2021 Feb 21, 2021 In fiscal year 2019, West Virginia’s state income tax brought in $2.09 billion to state coffers to fund nearly half of the state’s services needed to provide a decent quality of life in the Mountain State. Now, Gov. Jim Justice and the Republican supermajority are bent on cutting — with the full-blown goal of eventually eliminating — the state’s income tax. However, no one has stepped forward with a solid, logical plan to replace th...

Every year, the first people to arrive at the Bryce Jordan Center for THON and the last ones to leave aren’t the dancers: Its the members of OPPerations.

Saturday night, the Student Government Association Elections Committee unanimously voted to sanction the Belong executive ticket for violating the Elections Code. The decision followed a Zoom disciplinary meeting regularly punctuated by friendly pleasantries and technical difficulties. This marks the Belong ticket’s third sanction of the election season. The most recent sanction came as a result of a complaint filed by junior Christian Carlow, chief counsel for the Voice executive ticket. ...

Paris City Council is expected to extend the mayor’s Declaration of Disaster issued Feb. 16, adopt a revised code of ordinances, appoint members to a Charter Review Committee, adopt a

The Dancer Relations Committee is vital to keeping dancers on their feet. However, this year’s virtual format brought a unique set of logistical challenges.