PHIL DI VECE News Contributor Fri, 05/14/2021 - 8:45am
Terry Heller
William “Bill” Maloney
Three candidates are seeking two, two-year terms on the Wiscasset select board. The annual election is Tuesday, June 8. In-person voting Election Day is at Wiscasset Community Center from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. For information about voting absentee, contact the town clerk. To download an application to request an absentee ballot, visit wiscasset.org
Unopposed candidates on the ballot include Desiree Bailey and Indriani Demers for the school committee and Phil Di Vece for Wiscasset Water District trustee. All three are incumbents. No candidates are on the ballot for eight vacancies on the Budget Committee. Jefferson Slack and Katharine Martin-Savage chose not to seek re-election to the select board. Their successors would each be new to the five-member board.
Tarleton program helps students who dropped out due to COVID-19
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STEPHENVILLE A $750,000 grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will help Tarleton State University boost workers displaced by COVID-19 and assist students who stopped short of completing their undergraduate degree.
The Texas Reskilling Support Fund Grant Program stems from $175 million given the coordinating board from the Governor’s Emergency Educational Relief Fund, originally part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020.
Grant money for those who qualify covers tuition and fees and will vary from $750 to $1,500 per semester (summer and fall 2021). Application fees will be waived for previous Tarleton students.
I’ve been in nursing for more than a quarter of a century, and it’s been around that entire time. The nursing shortage is something that will continue through the years, according to all the projections that I see.
Now, COVID has impacted nursing, but it depends on who you’re asking what the impact is going to be. There were probably a lot of nurses close to retirement age who would have stuck around in full-time positions considerably longer, but maybe with COVID now they’ve decided to go into travel or contract assignments to get out of the full-time stressors that nursing holds.
Following the establishment of the Texas Reskilling Support Fund Grant Program by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Tech is planning to offer tuition and fees assistance to students whose academic progress got impacted by COVID-19.
This grant will be given to qualifying students who were unable to attend school in the fall of 2020 due to COVID-19-related circumstances. Tech Vice Provost Melanie Hart said that eligible students must be able to graduate within 12 months and have not enrolled in any university or college during the Fall 2020 semester.
âThis will allow students to come back to school, even when they were affected by COVID-19 from a financial perspective,â Hart said. âThe grant will allow them to finish up their degree.â