Category: Malakoff

Around the Town: Sugar is not your friend

By Loretta Humble/Around the Town

I hate to start off negative, but sometimes the most loving thing one person can do for another is to tell the truth, even if it hurts. So here it is: Sugar is not your friend. But there are some handy sugar alternatives out there to give you the same affect but without the unhealthy bit! Ther

Most of us know too much of it is bad for our waste lines and our hearts, but now there is major evidence that it also can be messing with our brains, both by muddying our thinking and darkening our moods.

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Around the Town: Meeting the real Santa Claus

By Loretta Humble/Around the Town

On our way to the Master Gardeners Christmas party, where we were both ordained official Master Gardener Interns, Shelly told me she had seen the real Santa Claus that day. She had this sparkle in her eyes, and her words tumbled out like an excited kid.

She and Douglas have been helping with Nancy Jackson’s huge estate sale in Tool, and after the main days of the sale were past, there was still lots of good stuff left, so the two of them have kept it open for a while as they continued to sell to a steady stream of buyers.

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MALAKOFF ISD earns state’s highest fiscal accountability rating

Malakoff ISD LogoPress release

Malakoff Independent School District officials announced that the district received a rating of “A” for “Superior Achievement” under Texas’ School FIRST financial accountability rating system. The “Passed” rating is the state’s highest, demonstrating the quality of Malakoff ISD’s financial management and reporting system. Malakoff ISD had a perfect rating meeting all criteria.

This is the 14th year of School FIRST (Financial Accountability Rating System of Texas), a financial accountability system for Texas school districts developed by the Texas Education Agency in response to Senate Bill 875 of the 76th Texas Legislature in 1999 and amendments under House Bill 5, 83rd Texas Legislature. Regular Session, 2013. The primary goal of School FIRST is to achieve quality performance in the management of school districts’ financial resources, a goal made more significant due to the complexity of accounting associated with Texas’ school finance system.

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Malakoff Board of Trustees honors Learning Express

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The Malakoff School Board honored The Learning Express Daycare and School as an outstanding local business and community partner at its meeting on Monday, December 12. The Learning Express offers Malakoff ISD teachers half off child care costs and then donates what would have been the other half of the cost to the Malakoff Education Foundation. The board thanked The Learning Express for supporting our teachers and the Malakoff Education Foundation. Pictured are, from the left, Steven Stearman and Mary Dooley of The Learning Express along with MISD Superintendent Randy Perry. (Courtesy photo)