Day: December 16, 2024
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Get some seeds, attract some critters
Deer were not cooperative Sunday morning as I sat high in a tree overlooking French Creek in scenic Knox County. But the beauty of sitting in nature long enough is that something will usually catch your eye, if you stay awake and attentive and ignore your cellphone. Sure enough, as an otherwise slow morning neared an end, the cackle of a rooster pheasant caught my ears … then my eyes. There not 50 feet away, a gaudy rooster floated into our prairie following a group of 9-10 hen pheasants. Breeding season is months away, but those hens sure acted like…
$8M bond issue
Farmington planning school enhancements By JEFF LAMPEFor The Weekly Post FARMINGTON – The Farmington School Board on Monday took another step toward facilitating projects designed to enhance and maintain school facilities. The board voted to approve a resolution for the sale and issuance of no more than $8 million in debt certificates for the purpose of improving and repairing district facilities. Farmington Superintendent Zac Chatterton said the district tax rate would not increase as a result of the bond issuance. Chatterton said the bonds are a continuance of enhancement bonds issued in 2018, for which the district still owes $2.6 million….
