Lee Yager and Donna Yager are again scheduled to appear before the Lake County Commission on Tuesday morning to ask that a conditional use permit be amended. The hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. as the final item on the agenda for a regular meeting that begins at 9 a.m. in the commission meeting room of the Lake County Courthouse.
The Yagers d/b/a The Gravel Pit have appeared before the commission at least three times in the last two years with the same request. Neighbor Janet Weber has opposed each request, saying it would affect her ability to board horses. The existing gravel pit is on 457th Avenue north of SD-34.
Starkville partners with TVA on solar energy initiative Starkville Utilities has agreed to purchase 30 megawatts of solar energy through the Tennessee Valley Authority Green Invest program supplied by a solar project in Lowndes County currently under development by Origis Energy. This photo of a solar installation in Lamar County by Origis is representative of the solar plus storage project in the Golden Triangle. Courtesy photo/Starkville Utilities
Starkville Utilities Department has partnered with the Tennessee Valley Authority to become the first municipality in the state of Mississippi to sign an agreement to create local renewable energy.
Through the Green Invest agreement, SUD bought 30 megawatts of a potential 200 offered, which will equal to 15 percent of Starkville’s annual electricity consumption. SUD General Manager Terry Kemp said this agreement will be a part of the company’s dedicated portfolio for the Starkville power supply and provide a clean and cost-effe
An increase in white oak poaching comes amid popularity of Tennessee, Kentucky booze
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Ben Benton; Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn. (TNS)
Apr. 4 When National Park Service Ranger Justin Young saw the stark stump of a poached white oak tree on the slopes of Lookout Mountain last fall, it wasn’t the first theft of the species he’d seen.
Over the last several years, Young has investigated a few thefts involving large trees, but the last two involved white oaks, at least one of which was far more than a century old, cut down inside the Chattanooga city limits.
CollegeSource Steps Up to Meet Increased Community College Demand, Keeping Students on Path to Graduation with uAchieve® Degree Audit Solution
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Addressing Pandemic-Induced Retention Drop Among Two-Year Institutions, CollegeSource Tracks Real-Time Degree Progress to Help Students Reach Educational Goals
Switching to uAchieve’s automated degree audit solution will ensure we are compliant with Missouri’s statewide CORE 42 framework for core coursework and allows us to intuitively follow our student-centric guided pathways initiative - Scott Fiedler, Ozarks Technical Community College SAN DIEGO (PRWEB) February 24, 2021 CollegeSource, the higher education industry’s most trusted provider of transfer and degree achievement solutions, today announced increased demand among community colleges for its cloud-based uAchieve® degree audit and academic planning solution. Institutions such Santa Fe Comm
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The higher education software developer CollegeSource on Wednesday announced that two community colleges will adopt its degree auditing platform in the hope of reducing excess credits for transferring students and expediting the path to graduation.
Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico and Ozarks Technology Community College in Springfield, Missouri, are each planning implementations of the company’s uAcheive platform to automate various aspects of degree auditing and academic planning. Through “tailored reports” that outline student progress, along with “robust transfer articulation,” advisers can ensure students have selected their most direct route to graduation.