The filing period for upcoming city council, school board and hospital district board positions began Wednesday and runs through Feb. 18, according to local officials.
Commissioners claimed a county COVID policy they considered Tuesday was “discriminatory” because it provided virus leave to vaccinated employees only and not to those unvaccinated.
Slight enrollment decreases at each of the school district’s six campuses resulted in less student numbers in the most recent count, according to figures presented at Tuesday’s school board meeting.