L.C. Bird engineering program steps up requirements (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Freshmen entering L.C. Bird High Schoolâ?™s Pre-Engineering Specialty Center this fall will have to raise their game to meet more rigorous demands in the already competitive programâ?™s requirements. The center starts the year with a new

KSU to host dialog on sustainability
Kansas The Consortium for Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability and its partners will host the Fifth Annual Dialog on Sustainability: Green Jobs--Finding the Right Path Forward on July 22 at the Leadership Studies Building at Kansas State Univ

Engineer inteview session open to public (The Scottsboro Daily Sentinel)
All five county commission members will interview each applicant for the county engineer position after they voted 3-1 Monday to make an exception to the countyâ?™s personnel policy.

Federal pay scale to level playing field at McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (Asbury Park Press)
LAKEHURST â?” Its not a pay wall â?” a pay chain-link fence, maybe â?” but for years Air Force and Army civilian employees have gotten less money for comparable jobs than their Navy counterparts "across the fence" at Lakeh

Firefighter returns to job (Easy Reader)
Firefighter Sheldon Osekowsky will return to his job Sept. 30 and receive $300,000 in a legal settlement with city officials who fired him three years ago.