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ELKINS — Town of Elkins is starting the method of changing water meters all through the municipality. Elkins Operations Supervisor Bob Pingley stated the improve is important as a result of the know-how within the present remote-read meters is not dependable. “There are electronics in them and they’re failing,” Pingley stated. “The clerks are having to estimate payments.” Town has been estimating clients’ payments based mostly on the common of the latest 12 remote-read months, after which when a handbook studying is taken, the precise cumulative complete utilization is recorded and billed, the town’s web site states. Pingley stated the present meters have been put in from 2004-2006 and have a remote-read mechanism that permits the meters to be learn by a pc. “They ship out a sign and we’ve got a technician that drives round with a laptop computer to get the meter readings,” he stated. “Once they don’t learn, we’re not set as much as exit and skim the meters.” Pingle

SALINEVILLE — College students on the Utica Shale Academy and Southern Native Excessive Faculty are getting one other useful resource to organize them for a profitable future in business by means of a $200,000 state grant. Academy Director Invoice Watson stated the Ohio Division of Training permitted an Fairness in Training grant to assist present coaching on six Trade four.zero constructing blocks together with industrial success expertise, industrial tools and expertise, good sensors and units, management techniques, Web protocol and informactionable knowledge. Southern Native will administer the funding and Watson stated it’s thought of a international language class as a result of it primarily makes use of pc programming, whereas Southern college students could take the category as an elective. “It’s a collaboration between USA and Southern Native and will probably be one other route for a diploma as a result of you may get three years of a international language

Picture by Janelle Patterson Shane Colvin seals plastic movie and adverts magnets to coverings for his spouse’s fifth-grade classroom bookshelves for defense throughout in a single day cleansing. The 2020-2021 educational yr begins subsequent week for Marietta Metropolis Faculties and preparations, troubleshooting and coaching have already begun. However what about educational expectations, requirements and insurance policies for college students? “My spouse is a primary grade trainer in one other district and I’m at the highschool so we speak typically about how the expectations might be totally different for various ages and developmental levels,” acknowledged Marietta Excessive Faculty Principal Chad Rinard Friday. “There are undoubtedly issues that we are able to anticipate of scholars at the highschool that aren’t affordable for the Okay-2 grades.” Each dad and mom and academics have provided questions for every constructing

MIFFLINTOWN — In response to new state mandates, Juniata County Faculty District management has proposed a revised faculty reopening plan that strikes the beginning of the college yr to Sept. eight. Superintendent Gary Dawson proposed the plan to the district’s board of administrators Wednesday throughout its workshop assembly that may convey their plan extra in step with that of neighboring Mifflin County Faculty District. Along with a later begin, the plan features a four-day in-person, one-day digital instruction schedule. The plan change got here after the district obtained new steering on how you can hold college students and workers protected in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic as courses resume for the autumn semester. The steering recommends a selected educating/faculty type based mostly on the variety of constructive instances. “These new scores would come out each Monday, and that’s imagined to be one piece faculty districts use to determine if its accept