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North Lamar ISD will conduct a public hearing on the district’s state mandated annual accountability report, and trustees are expected to call a May 1 bond election when the board meets at 6 p.m. Monday at the Roy C. Chadwick Administration Office, 3130 N. Main St. In relation to the proposed bond election, trustees are expected to retain law firms Haynes & Boone and Powell Law Group to provide specialized legal services for the issuance of public securities. Other agenda items include a f...

A formal complaint to investigate U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s travel reimbursements has been filed with the Office of Congressional Ethics.

Forsyth’s health department has 900 new appointments available for the COVID-19 vaccine. People can make those appointments beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Burnside Mayor Robert Lawson Burnside Mayor Robert Lawson has been elected to chair the Lake Cumberland Area Development District (ADD) Board of Directors for 2021. Lawson has served on the board since he first took office in 2017, since all judge-executives and mayors from the districts 10 counties -- Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, McCreary, Pulaski, Russell, Taylor and Wayne -- are automatically named in addition to 20 citizens that also serve from those counties. "Its an honor and...

Despite what some in the Idaho Legislature might think, we are still in the middle of a global pandemic. Now is not the time to be making decisions without careful

With the month-long candidate-filing period for the May 1 elections ending Friday, four more candidates recently filed for seats on area school boards and New Braunfels City Council.

It was an off week for area legislators in Austin, which welcomes back House and Senate members for Gov. Greg Abbott’s annual State-of-the-State address Monday and will gavel back to

The board voted unanimously to take that action during their meeting Thursday. Commissioners received a report from Knoxville attorney Benjamin Lauderback late last year that found Peterson unnecessarily berated but didn’t threaten the job of a fire prevention officer, Roger Davis. Peterson chastised Davis after he looped the State Fire Marshal’s Office in on a conversation about using the former Ashe Street Courthouse to house homeless people with COVID-19. Lauderback did, however, h...

Pendleton Heights High School graduate Kyle Hupfer has been named general counsel of the Republican National Committee.

Noble, Steuben counties gain yellow ratings INDIANAPOLIS — For the first time since the end of October, Noble and Steuben counties have made it back to a yellow rating for “moderate” spread of COVID-19, as the state continues to see weekly improvement. LaGrange and DeKalb counties also showed improvement, but not quite enough to get to a lower grade yet. Both stayed in orange but also saw some improvement in their metrics. The improvement locally matches improvement statewide as ...