Trego School Enrollment Grows- Also, Taxes
The last school board meeting had the announcement of 3 more students this semester. That’s an increase from 23 students to 26, or a 13% increase in enrollment since Fall. School enrollment remains something to be watched closely, given the previous trend. The increased enrollment fit with reading the Budget Amendment Resolution the trustees have…
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Board of Health Recommended New Member, Appointed Officers
Since the board met via zoom, attendance was relatively straight forward. It did, however, require an installation (brief) of zoom. The meeting began with the nomination of officers. Current Board Chair Jan Ivers mentioned a desire not to return as chair, but expressed doubts that anyone else would wish to take the position. She and…
Easy Math but Fake News
Yesterday, I read that US Life Expectancy had dropped by a full year due to Covid. I didn’t really think about it – I had taught about the drop in life expectancy accompanying the Spanish Flu, and had invented hypothetical plagues for student exercises in demography class. But when I had the full-year drop in…
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Board of Health Meeting: Reports, Vaccines, and more
In a meeting that lasted the better part of three hours, the board of health appointed officers, selected a candidate to recommend to the commissioners for replacing a board member, heard reports and answered questions. After an hour and forty minutes (when the audience had, admittedly, started to thin substantially), reports began. Team 56: It’s…
“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
-T. S. Eliot
On the Game Camera this week
The sound of ravens noisily calling and the presence of eagles in the field, led us to walk the wooded trails. We did indeed find a fawn, the victim of a predator. A game camera was moved to observe the predator’s return. No sightings of lions or coyotes on the game camera instead there were…
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Sharing the definition of Impeccable for the County Clerk
A January 13 article in the Tobacco Valley News described how a box of ballots was left behind on November 3 and counted days later. The Western News in Libby brought the matter to light on January 5. The kudos and praise belong to our local press – blunders such as this need to be…
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