DOVER After Dover School learned of a student with COVID-19, one grade went into quarantine. Our pod practices allowed us to limit it to one classroom, which is good and something we were shooting for after the last time, Principal Matt Martyn said at the River Valleys Unified School District Board meeting held remotely Monday. And although inconvenient for those families, everybody seems to be just able to follow the instructions and keep a good attitude. Thankfully the people are healthy and there doesn t appear to have been any school transmission, which we ultimately are hoping to achieve, no school transmission.
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DOVER â River Valleys Unified School District is scheduling an in-person annual meeting for May 26 and a return to full-time in-person instruction at its two elementary schools starting April 26.
The annual meeting is usually held in February but the COVID-19 pandemic brought about legislation that allowed towns and school districts to vote on matters via ballot or wait until later in the year to have a meeting. Dover and Wardsboro, where the districtâs two schools are located, put off their annual town meetings until May.
At the School Board meeting held remotely Monday, RVUSD Clerk and Dover Town Clerk Andy McLean said Wardsboro offered to let the district use a tent being setting up for the annual Town Meeting on May 22. With Wardsboroâs Town Meeting in the afternoon, he suggested the school district could have its meeting in the morning, which the School Board voted in favor of.
jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Washington County Treasurer Tammy Bates steps into the county parking lot behind the courthouse on Second Street to pick up property and mobile home tax payments left in her office dropbox Tuesday. (Photo by Janelle Patterson)
Washington County Treasurer Tammy Bates steps into the county parking lot behind the courthouse on Second Street to pick up property and mobile home tax payments left in her office dropbox Tuesday. (Photo by Janelle Patterson)
National headlines cite “no end in sight” for mail delays and that’s not only for holiday gifts ordered last fall.
“All last week our phones kept ringing, people in Belpre aren’t getting their bills in the mail,” said Washington County Treasurer Tammy Bates on Tuesday after picking up property and mobile home tax payments dropped off at the dropbox behind the county courthouse. “They were sent Feb. 2.”
Help clean up Chattahoochee, Lanier during 2021 Sweep the Hooch Volunteers roll a tire out of the water during Chattahoochee Riverkeeper s 10th annual Sweep the Hooch on Aug. 29, 2020. The next cleanup is scheduled for March 27, 2021.
Photo courtesy Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
For the 11th consecutive year, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper is calling upon Georgians to don their river-ready attire and help protect the state’s biggest water source through Sweep the Hooch.
The annual watershed-wide cleanup will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 27, and span across over 50 parks, tributaries and points along 100 miles of the Chattahoochee River.
The nonprofit encourages volunteers to sign-up quickly for the event since each site has a limited capacity of around 20-40 people. After two days of opening registration, Mallory Pendleton, headwaters outreach manager, said 400 people have joined the cause.
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Washington County residents celebrated installation in the snow last week, but how does a resident within the 7-mile radius of the first wireless offering of the Southeast Ohio Broadband Cooperative sign up for internet service?
“So we’re going to have a sign-up portal (online), and I know it makes zero sense to have a portal to sign up to get internet… We’re also going to be using the same phone number that we used for the speed test,” explained the cooperative’s founder David Brown. “And then we’re going to send that to a Gmail that four people (with the cooperative’s leadership) are going to be monitoring.”