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AISD Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)

Wed, 08/21/2024 - 5:00am

The Atlanta Independent School District announced today it will operate the Community Eligibility Program (CEP) under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program for the 2024 - 2025 school year. Schools qualifying to operate CEP serve breakfast and lunch to all children at no charge and eliminate the collection of meal applications for free, reduced-price, and paid student meals. The free and reduced lunch applications have been replaced with a socio-economic form that is found in the registration packet. This approach reduces burdens for both families and school administrators and helps ensure that students receive nutritious meals.

Lithium expert offers background and insight into lithium extraction

Wed, 08/21/2024 - 5:00am

Lithium continues to be a hot topic around the Ark-La-Tex region as new players emerge in the market for a potential boon including “big oil”. Up until April of 2023, none of the Cass County papers had ever done a story on lithium. Most in the area were caught by surprise when businesses began to visit property owners in hopes of securing mineral rights. Also in March, Standard Lithium announced that wells drilled in Cass County showed some of the highest concentrations of lithium in the world. While the world continues to change in its quest for “clean energy”, there has been one person who has roots in Cass County and has been here in the region working with Lithium since the 1980s, John Burba.

The Atchisons

Wed, 08/21/2024 - 5:00am

During the course of his lifetime, Henry Atchison accomplished the remarkable feat of working in his own store for sixty-eight years. Consequently, the Atchison name is well known in all of Sulphur Township.

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