1 $1.00 Newton County Times Wednesday, September 2, 2020 Vol. 101 Number 36 Back to school, and the pandemic Staff Report School districts ended the 2019-2020 school year abruptly last spring when the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic made attending classes unsafe. A new school year began last week with schools taking appropriate mea- sures to protect students and sta . School boards adopted Ready for Learning Plans (RLP) that call for an instructional model imple- menting traditional, blended and Western Grove School Prin- digital curriculums. Traditional cipal Billy Carter welcomed learning is onsite with teach- students to school on Tuesday, ers, content, and assignments. the fi rst day of class. Blended learning is o -site learn- TIMES PHOTOS JEFF DEZORT ing with district teachers, content, Western Grove students wearing masks get their temperature taken See BACK TO SCHOOL, 11A before signing in for the day. Solid waste district board Board off ers chairman says $18 fee ‘is gone’ director By JAMES L. WHITE Ozark Mountain Solid Waste District attorney John
[email protected] 2 hrs ago 0 Verkamp (standing) talks with (from left) Luke Feighert, Ozark Mountain Solid Waste contract fi nance director, and interim district director Bill Lord District Board of Directors chairman By JAMES L. WHITE following a meeting Tuesday morning in Harrison. Fed Woehl told the board Tuesday that
[email protected] FACEBOOK Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox e Ozark Mountain Solid Waste Dis- ruled from the bench that the now- trict voted Tuesday to enter into a contract famed $18 fee is over.