ISD 166 School Board held a meeting on Thursday, December 14, 2023, and one of the items on the board’s to-do list was to have a public hearing before certifying the 2024 tax levy for the school district.
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As with so many latter years, our emotions have been in cross fires—one minute the kids are okay, the next is a war in Gaza. And now, it's a Blue Christmas. We both have COVID, and family celebrations are off indefinitely. Blast!
2023 Year in Review On the one hand, thinking about 2023 is easier than previous years because it’s more recent. It’s top of mind.
Cook County will have to wait until sometime in January and maybe longer to have an official gun range The Flintlock Range Association (FRA) requested a Conditional Use Permit to operate an outdoor sports park, including shooting ranges and courses with public and private events, on 360 acres of county-owned land. Still, it was delayed because of two issues.
Across the Saigon River from the downtown was a very low, jungle morass district called Thu Duc. It remained a very rural district and wild because it couldn't be built upon with anything greater than squat and simple brick and stucco homes.
Cook County Emergency Director Mike Keyport presented the Cook County Emergency Operations Plan Review to the commissioners at the board’s December 12 meeting. Every four years, commissioners must review the county’s emergency plans.