With just a week left to purchase Christmas gifts for those on your list, time is running out for making a trip to the big-box stores. Time is even shorter for those wishing to shop virtually and receive the gifts before Christmas. However, the Steel Country area has no shortage of boutiques and specialty shops that can help fill those lengthy wish lists.
Young Lillian Moulton has a heartfelt conversation with Santa Claus about her Christmas wishlist when Saint Nick visited Bailey’s Dec. 12. Lillian’s mother, Jordan Molton, brought her from their home in Hughes Springs. BEE PHOTO / TONI WALKER
AUSTIN, Texas – December 10, 2020 – The Texas Education Agency announced today that A-F ratings would be paused for 2020-21 school year due to the ongoing disruptions associated with COVID-19. The STAAR test will proceed for the 2020-21 school year in order to provide critically important information about individual student learning that teachers and parents can use to help students grow. For those schools that incorporate STAAR results into teacher evaluations, TEA is providing flexibility to allow them to remove that component this school year.
Today marks a hidden holiday, as uncelebrated as it is unappreciated. It was 229 years ago today that the United States ratified the Bill of Rights, ensuring unprecedented freedom for the people of an emerging nation.
With many neighboring towns and communities cancelling their Christmas parades due to COVID-19 concerns, the Omaha Chamber of Commerce made the decision to move forward with their annual Christmas in the Park event. The annual event, which includes the annual tree lighting dedication, ceremony, and Christmas parade, was held at the Omaha City Park Dec. 6 and was presented by the Omaha Parks Board and the Omaha Chamber of Commerce.