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Champaign County? How interesting! A while back my interest was piqued when I read in the UDC about a presentation made to the Soroptimist Club concerning interesting women in Champaign County. When I recently read that “Interesting Women of Champaign County, Ohio Prior to 1960” would be presented on the Champaign County Library Facebook page, I made sure to watch. Library employee Gloria Malone compiled the informative 30-minute program of facts gleaned from county histories, city directories, and archived newspapers. From these sources she added photographs and clippings in describing ...

?To be sure, using the Foundation Skills Assessment tests to rank schools is a repugnant use of this test. And it should stop or at least be ignored.

As of late 2020, the state’s unemployment rate was hovering just over 10 percent, signaling some much-needed good news for New Jerseyans out of work.

More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Ripon Unified seeking to hire teacher subs Substitute teachers are in high demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic. One teacher being out due to illness of any sort can cause a domino effect, according to Ripon Unified Superintendent Ziggy Robeson. “We do have a healthy substitute teachers pool and we always welcome more help,” she said at Tuesday’s school board meeting. There are still challenges for RUSD as well as other school...

By   Dec 17, 2020 05:59 AM EST Children are reportedly becoming victims of isolation measures. Isolation measures, instigated as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, are distressing children, according to the United Kingdom governmental watchdog Ofsted. A set of reports published on Tuesday discovered repeated periods of self-isolation have adversely affected children and their education, particularly the most susceptible. Regression in Basic Skills of Children Ofsted pointed out that children failed to remember how to use a fork and knife and also returned to wearing nappies following th...