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July 10: The Wills Point ISD Board of Trustees meets on the second Monday of each month beginning at 6 p.m. at the WPISD Administration Building located at 338 W.N.

jackwelch1975@gmail.com School districts and universities need financial leaders to understand the makeup of the programs they oversee. Building a budget for athletic equipment is not the same as spending on band instruments.

What is it called when an employer leverages an employee to quit and move on? The general term is called constructive discharge. This is when an employee’s resignation may be coerced and not voluntary. The language from the employer creates a hostile or intolerable work environment. If the employer applies pressure or coercion to force the employee to quit or resign, then constructive discharge is usually person quit volunteering for a school district because of the injustice they perceived their friend was given as an employee. The friend was fired from the district, although they had been given excellent evaluations in all 23 years of employment. Never having received a negative mark in their evaluations, the employee was told it was time to move on.

As we all head outside to enjoy the sunshine and warm weather this summer, the American Red Cross, North Texas Region, offers summer safety tips for you and your loved ones. “Here in North Texas, many of us enjoy spending time outdoors with family and friends swimming, grilling and playing with our pets,” said Linda Braddy, CEO, Red Cross North Texas Region.

Dear Editor: On Saturday, June 17, we kicked off the annual Juneteenth Celebration with our parade. Juneteenth is a holiday in which we come together to celebrate our freedom.

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During my coaching career ,I initiated drug testing student-athletes at Ft. Scott Community College and a 6A high school in Texas.

A House Committee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service May 31 received a statement from the National Newspaper Association and others in a broad coalition of mailing and package shipping groups that criticizes the twice-yearly postage increases implemented by USPS. The Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service (C21), a group to which NNA has belonged since C21’s founding, issued a statement for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in response to a May oversight hearing in which only Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was invited to testify. C21 represents organizations that amass more than $1.6 trillion in annual sales from mailing- related activities, which amounts to about five percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product. The Postal Service’s Delivering for America plan has driven total increases in Periodicals postage of around 35 percent since January 2021. Any good news from the plan has been overshadowed, C21 told Congress, by “relentless, twice-yearly, postage rate increases endangering the Postal Service’s mail business and destructive to small and medium-sized businesses and consumers often considered the backbone of American employment.”