Hunger Awareness Day in Fremont County – and across the country – is slated for June 6. Residents are asked to eat out that day and help support Loaves and Fishes Ministries.During Monday’s rescheduled meeting, the Fremont County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution declaring June 6, 2024, as Hunger Awareness Day. It’s a day […]
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Support both millages Tuesday
This Tuesday, May 4, will be very important for two of our countywide millages. The longest was set in place in 1997 as the Monroe County Technology Millage and the second is the Monroe County Museum Systems Millage, which began in 2012.
I happened to be involved with both as a member of the Mason Consolidated Schools Board of Education for the Monroe County Intermediate School District countywide Technology Millage and with the museum as a volunteer and Museum Commissioner (today a trustee).
In most county schools there was a of lack new technology unless your luck was to have funding to purchase technology for school buildings. At Mason we were accepting a few donated outdated computers. As a funding plan, we tried three times to pass a technology a millage in 1995-96, but each time we were turned down. Thanks to the ISD in 1997 a Countywide Technology Millage was developed and passed for all nine public school districts, including Mason. This techn