Pembroke Mayor Greg Cummings speaks Friday at an event to announce a BUILD Grant award in the amount of $5,262,618. The money will be used to pay for improvements in Pembroke’s downtown area. PEMBROKE — “Persistence paid off” when it came to the town of Pembroke finding the money to […]
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Hanover Area buys new security system with extensive tracking and temperature scanning
January 15, 2020 WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections issued a report Wednesday morning that recommends the closing of the State Correctional Institution at Retreat. Three local state senators then issued a terse statement, which included calling on Gov. Tom Wolf to reject the recommendation and keep the facility […]
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As a virtual start approaches, some St. Louis area schools face laptop backlogs | Education
Now some local districts are coming up short. Jennings plans to have most students do all classes remotely. Roughly a third — generally younger students and those with special needs, said Superintendent Art McCoy — will learn partially in-person, on alternating days. And Jennings has enough devices for grades one […]
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Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened on Aug. 4 with COVID-19 in the Chicago area
The switch to an all-remote learning plan could come as CTU leaders are planning to convene the organization’s House of Delegates next week and consider a process that eventually could lead to a strike if CPS doesn’t agree to start the school year with full remote learning, sources said Tuesday. […]