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Monday, March 15 - Chicken Pot Pie, Broccoli, Biscuit, Whole Grain Fruit Bar
Tuesday, March 16 - Ham and Beans, Copper Carrots, Cornbread, Fruit Cocktail
Wednesday, March 17 - Chili Mac, Mixed Lettuce Salad w/Dressing, Dinner Roll, Warm Fruit Cobbler
Thursday, March 18 - Roast Beef in Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Seasoned Green Beans, Whole Grain Wheat, Fruited Gelatin
Friday, March 19 - Tuna Salad Sandwich, Vegetable Soup, Bun or Bread & Crackers, Mandarin Oranges

•March 3, 2021•
Nineteen students from Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond High School attended the Illinois Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Section 7 Leadership Conference via ZOOM on Friday, February 12 in Tuscola. FCCLA members from five area schools made up the participants for the event. The theme for the meeting was “Blasting Through the Decades.” Members in attendance from ALAH High School were: Katelyn Ahrendt, Kassidy Bissey, Kendall Burdick, Adriana Burton, Cheyenne Chupp, Jordan Conour, Madi Crafton, Mackenzie Erixon, Marissa Lake, Caty Lucas, Jordan Quertermous, Kiya Rhodes, Maleah Roberts, Erin Schrock, Kaylee Schrock, Claire Seal, Brook Tucker, Lucy Wilbur and Mikayla Williams. Mrs. Voegel, adviser and EIU Student Teacher Mallory Jones were also in attendance. Read More

•March 3, 2021•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

When I was a lad, I thought “antidisestablishmentarianism” was the longest English word. I would wow people — or thought I wowed people — when I shared this tidbit with them in what must have been a series of random encounters.
I was impressed that it contains more letters than there are in the alphabet.
Of course, we didn’t have the internet then, so I figured that out by READING THE DICTIONARY.
I was a precocious and voracious reader. I think I might have just gotten bored midway through the A’s and figured that word was long enough for me. Read More

•March 3, 2021•
Lake Land College partnered with the online therapy platform BetterMynd to offer students access to online therapy sessions with a diverse network of licensed mental health counselors. Through the partnership, each Lake Land College student can access up to six free online therapy sessions each year on the BetterMynd platform. These live video sessions are private, confidential, and can take place from the convenience of a laptop or smartphone. Read More

•March 3, 2021•
Moultrie County has been issued a final property assessment equalization factor of 1.0000, according to David Harris, Director of the Illinois Department of Revenue.
The property assessment equalization factor, often called the “multiplier”, is the method used to achieve uniform property assessments among counties, as required by law. This equalization is particularly important because some of the state’s 6,600 local taxing districts overlap into two or more counties (e.g. school districts, junior college districts, fire protection districts). If there were no equalization among counties, substantial inequities among taxpayers with comparable properties would result.
Under a law passed in 1975, property in Illinois should be assessed at one-third (1/3) of its market value. Farm property is assessed differently, with farm homesites and dwellings subject to regular assessing and equalization procedures, but with farmland assessed at one-third of its agriculture economic value. Farmland is not subject to the state equalization factor.
Assessments in Moultrie County are at 33.24 percent of market value, based on sales of properties in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Read More