SNYDER – On Aug. 21, Cogdell Memorial Hospital reported that over the previous six days staff had conducted 496 COVID-19 tests with 91 being positive.
Preston E. Smith Prison Unit officials are now accepting applications for correctional officers to work at the unit here.
Klondike school board members are scheduled Monday to take action on a new budget and tax rate for the 2021-2022 school year.
The school’s proposed budget and tax rate will be the main focus of two meetings scheduled Monday by the Dawson school board in Welch.
Dawson County Hospital District (DCHD) board members are finishing up the final business on the tax rate during a special meeting at 5 p.m., Tuesday meeting in the Medical Arts Hospital’s conference room at 2200 N. Bryan Ave.
A temporary sign erected at the edge of a field promotes Tuesday’s hospital board meeting and discourages a proposed tax increase. During the meeting the hospital board reversed course and voted 5-0 not to increase the tax rate. Last week they had voted to 3-2 to propose a tax increase of almost 8 cents per $100 property value. LPR photo
When does it become more feasible and financially responsible to build a new jail here as opposed to continuing to pay other counties to house local prisoners.
Citing the need to unify as a group, Dawson County Hospital District (DCHD) board members did a turnaround when considering the district’s tax rate during a special meeting Tuesday.
Dawson County officials got some good financial news Tuesday just as they were preparing to adopt the county’s new budget and tax rate.
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