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County Historical Commission to meet in Old Jail

Wed, 09/28/2022 - 12:00am

County commissioners voted on Sept. 12 to allow the Young County Historical Commission to meet once a month and store records and artifacts at the 1921 County Jail in Graham’s town square. The county Historical Commission launched a fundraising effort last year to save the Old Jail from the wrecking ball. The commission is seeking a state grant to hire an architect and engineering firm to come up with a plan to use the 101-year-old building. Historical Commission Director Susan Smith told Commissioners that the 12 boxes of artifacts and two filing cabinets of historical scrapbooks and other records had to be relocated from the basement of the Post Office Museum, where they had been stored for about a decade because the museum was being refurbished. Ms. Smith said the commission also needed meeting space as a plan to meet throughout the county had been stymied by aging members’ health.

Olney library, school arts programs see windfall

Wed, 09/28/2022 - 12:00am

Young County Commissioners approved payouts to the Olney Community Library and Arts Center and the Olney Independent School District arts and music programs as part of a windfall from the Capital Credits for Counties Fund. Each of the programs will receive $63,207.04 within the next couple of weeks, Precinct 3 Commissioner Stacey Rogers said. The county commissioners allocated the $568,000 to nine county literacy and arts programs, libraries and child advocacy programs at its Sept. 26 meeting. including OCLAC and the One Act Play and band programs at Olney public schools, Mr. Rogers said.

Dishes and Divorce: How Little Things Can Lead to a Breakup

Dishes and Divorce: How Little Things Can Lead to a Breakup

Thu, 09/22/2022 - 12:00am

An interesting issue keeps coming up in marriage counseling sessions as my pastor husband and I sit across from couples of all ages and stages of their relationship. Each pair comes in with unique sets of issues, but it never fails that every couple seems to suffer from one specific problem: dishes. Yes, you read that right. Dishes are sure to come up at some point during the conversation: Who is doing the dishes? Who is leaving dishes sitting out? Who is complaining about dishes? Who is ignoring dishes? It seems to be the one marriage problem that no one can manage to resolve.

Should you stick with index-based investments?

Thu, 09/22/2022 - 12:00am

You may have heard that you can simplify your investment strategy just by owning index-based or passive investments. But is this a good idea? You’ll want to consider the different aspects of this type of investment style. To begin with, an index-based investment is a vehicle such as a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that mimics the performance of a market benchmark, or index — the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and so on. (An ETF is similar to a mutual fund in that it holds a variety of investments but differs in that it is traded like a common stock.) You can also invest in index funds that track the bond market.

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