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The USD 480 school board will look to have an easy meeting Monday evening starting at 6:30. Monday’s meeting will be in Room C107 of the Liberal High School East Campus.
The meeting’s new business will be preceded by the administrator reports, including some updates from Director of Operations Chad Mease.
Seward County Community College has been listed by the United States Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona as one of 100 two-year colleges in the nation on the “Raise the Bar” initiative. Currently, there are more than 1,100 community colleges in the nation. Raise the Bar recognizes institutions that excel at empowering students to change their life trajectory through education and workforce development.
Leader & Times
The importance of maintaining the state’s energy grid has been a hot topic and recently, the State of Kansas announced some funding that will help with just that.
Tuesday, Gov. Laura Kelly announced 11 Kansas communities have secured more than $17 million for energy grid resilience.
United States Attorney Kate E. Brubacher announced earlier this week Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Jared Maag will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming 2024 general election. AUSA Maag has been appointed to serve as the District Election Officer (DEO) for the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Kansas, and in that capacity is responsible for overseeing the District’s handling of election day complaints of voting rights concerns, threats of violence to election officials or staff, and election fraud, in consultation with Justice Department Headquarters in Washington.
Seward County commissioners made light work out of a few action items at the board’s most recent meeting Oct. 7.
After local 4-H youth, along with Commission Chairman Scott Carr, read a proclamation proclaiming Oct. 6 through 12 at National 4-H Week in Seward County, the commission unanimously approved Cimarron Basin Community Corrections Fiscal Year 2024 Year-End Outcome Report presented by Director Kayla Janko.
