Brown Discusses Efforts to Plant More Trees in Ohio in Advance of Arbor Day

Brown Introducing Legislation to Plant More Trees, Reduce Racial Disparities Where Trees Are Located

WASHINGTON, DC – April 27, 2022 – In advance of Arbor Day on Friday, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a news conference call to discuss his legislative efforts to plant more trees, with a focus on underserved neighborhoods, and fight the racial disparities in the urban tree canopy.
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Governor DeWine Launches Ohio Crime Lab Efficiency Program to Eliminate Backlogs, Decrease Testing Turnaround Time

(CLEVELAND, Ohio) — Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today announced a new plan to eliminate evidence-processing backlogs and increase the speed at which criminal evidence is analyzed in crime laboratories across the state.  

As part of Governor DeWine’s new Ohio Crime Lab Efficiency Program, Ohio’s 14 certified crime laboratories will receive a combined total of $10 million to reduce and eliminate backlogs, increase overall lab efficiency, and decrease evidence processing time.Read full story

Dozens of Communities Attend Tree City USA Event

Mount Vernon, Gambier, Kenyon College, MVNU all receive recognition

MOUNT VERNON, April 27, 2022 – The Shade Tree Commissions of the City of Mount Vernon and the Village of Gambier, along with the Tree Campuses of Kenyon College and Mount Vernon Nazarene University, hosted the 2022 Tree City USA Awards Presentation on April 21 in the Schnormeier Event Center in Ariel-Foundation Park.… Read full story

East Knox 5-hr Cafeteria/3-hr AD Secretary Wanted

East Knox 5-hr Cafeteria/3-hr AD Secretary

East Knox Local School District

Full-Time

 

Job Description

Department Secretary/Food Service Worker

Position Purpose
Under the direct supervision of the principal to the school builidng and/or assistant principal/AD, to provide a wide variety of cafeteria and/or complex and confidential secretarial support, parents and others as required, and to assist in ensuring compliance of department/program activities with legal, administrative and District policy requirements.

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Monitoring Season for Barn Owls

In 2021, our agency and coordinating partners monitored 110 barn owl nest boxes and found evidence of 19 nests from the 2020 season. There were 23 total known nests in 21 townships in Ohio in 2020. Because of numbers remaining below population goals, the barn owl maintains its threatened status and we continue to monitor their populations.
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Brown Announces Nearly 10.3 Million for Rural Development Across Ohio

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2022 – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development office has awarded six Community Facilities Disaster Grants, eight Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Grants, and one Electric Infrastructure Loan totaling $10,298,000 to communities across Ohio.
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