Here are the facts the public needs to know. This current School board has worked hard to ensure accountability and transparency to every taxpayer in a time in our country when every dollar counts. It is our students and teachers that are impacted by an economy suffering from inflation andContinue Reading
by Edward.M.”JIB” Colie IIIAn official approach to electric vehicles: The state of California has actually put regulations in place that will ban vehicles with combustion engines by the year 2035. There will be exemptions for hybrid and plug-in hydrids but that is all. Personally speaking I hope that this actContinue Reading
By: Edward M.”JIB” Colie III Electric cars and a 2-way charge. The Ford F-150 pickup has a unique feature as far as EV’s go. This is the fact that it’s charging system can go 2 ways. First it charges the vehicle’s battery and second there is an inverter that convertsContinue Reading
By Sarah Ostergaard CRT, SEL, DEI, oh my. Is CRT in our schools? Yes, if you define the acronym CRT to mean Culturally Responsive Teaching. There seems a misunderstanding that CRT is SEL, and vice versa, that DEI excludes people, and none of it belongs in OUR (not an acronym)Continue Reading
BY: Edward M. “JIB” Colie III I have alwqys been ben fond of electric cars so when I was 12 years old I assembled one out of cast off parts. In one aspect it was a success but In three ways it was a failure. My EV started with aContinue Reading
By Mike DuBose Following our recent series of finding happiness, we now turn to the darker end of the spectrum. Many of us have personally experienced or witnessed major trauma during our lifetimes that has resulted in unhappiness, traveling down unresolved, very painful roads of suffering, some from childhood orContinue Reading
by Matt Belyus Thank you for checking out the Valet Tech corner. We will be writing tech articles without all the tech jargon so you can better understand the technology and how it can benefit you. We wrote an article on various anti-virus software packages, but it didn’t do justiceContinue Reading
By: Edward M. “JIB” Colie III So you’ve decided you would like to get an electric car. First thing you need to decide is how you intend to use it. A: Will you plan to use it for around-town errands and commuting? If it is around town, hauling your childrenContinue Reading
By: Edward M “JIB”Colie III Hi there, I’m a new columnist on this beat, but you may recognize my name if you’ve ever read the Lake Murray News. My “Inland Sea” Column has been a featured column since 1986. For the past 8 years, I have been driving around theContinue Reading
When I was a child most Doctors still made house calls, similar to Doc Adams on Gunsmoke, they not only knew ‘you’ and where you lived but treated your entire family. My Mom and Dad found our family physician when I was a toddler. A few years later, our Dr.Continue Reading
Akil E. Ross, Sr, Ed.D.Superintendent I am honored to be named superintendent of School District Five of Lexington and RichlandCounties. The tradition of excellence of the schools is a direct reflection of the amazing supportour community provides to the schools. As a result, I intend to use this platform toContinue Reading