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A group of women have banded together to help a Jefferson County man and his dog find a home.
Local businessman Jim Thomas purchased the former First Baptist Church of De Soto campus more recently known as the De Soto Community Center in December, and he has big plans.
A longtime Jefferson County health care provider recently opened Family Psychiatric and Addiction Care Clinic in Hillsboro with a goal of providing area residents timely access to mental health care.
The inaugural meeting of the Jefferson County Task Force on Restricted Opioid Settlement Funds took place Dec. 5. Members established bylaws and discussed where the county’s more than $6 million in settlement funds from companies that make and distribute prescription opioids should be used.
More than 100 local organizations will be grateful this Thanksgiving for the support they have received from the Jefferson Foundation, which awarded 111 grants totaling $2,904,180.03 in its second round of grant-giving this year.