Search continues for current Mrs. Dallas who went missing under unusual circumstances
Search continues for current Mrs. Dallas who went missing under unusual circumstances
More family and friends of a missing Irving mother have joined the search for her after she was last seen near a lake in her neighborhood Tuesday.
IRVING, Texas - More family and friends of a missing Irving mother have joined the search for her after she was last seen near a lake in her neighborhood Tuesday.
Irving police initiated a search. They say they don t treat every missing person s case like this, but they say this one has some unusual circumstances.
Elgin expands STEM internships to include high schoolers
Chris Nawrot started as a geographic information systems intern with the city of Elgin five years ago and was hired as a full-time GIS specialist a year ago. The city is expanding its STEM-related internship program this year to include 10 new positions for high school juniors and seniors. Rick West | Staff Photographer
Posted3/15/2021 5:30 AM
It s not a stretch to say that an internship with the city of Elgin changed the course of Chris Nawrot s career.
Nawrot was a student at Elgin Community College five years ago, working toward an associate degree in engineering science, when his adviser sent out an email blast about a GIS internship with the city.
Washington County invests $3 million in broadband
From Staff Reports
Washington County’s efforts to establish reliable county-wide broadband coverage was bolstered with the recently announced $1.5 million rural infrastructure grant from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, which was awarded as a 50-percent match for the project.
County Administrator Jeff Massey has been working to bring the project to fruition for more than a year.
“When COVID came out, it exposed us,” said Massey, “and not only us, but also other rural counties. We needed reliable internet for distance learning and telemedicine, and we just don’t have that throughout the county.”
More broadband funding on horizon for Washington County
Carol Kent Wyatt
The News
CHIPLEY – Washington County is set to request $3 million through the Community Development Block Grant Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) Small Cities Program to help bolster its ongoing project to make reliable broadband accessible throughout the county.
These funds would be in addition to a $1.5 million infrastructure grant recently awarded as a 50-percent match for the project from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO).
The county issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) from broadband providers in September 2019, with Wildstar Networks being the sole company to respond.
The company, which is currently installing a broadband network in Walton County, is already working on the design phase throughout Washington County. County leaders say that Sunny Hills, the first area in the project plan, should be completed by this fall.
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