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  THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING YOUR DRYER VENTS CLEANED Home Blog The Importance of Having Your Dryer Vents Cleaned Keeping your dryer vents clean is important for a number of reasons which include not only energy savings but safety. A dryer works by pushing out hot, moist air so your clothes can dry. If your dryer vent to the outside becomes blocked by lint, the air will not be able to expel moisture like it was designed to do. The result will be trapped moisture that takes more heat energy to evaporate. If you start to notice any of these things, it’s likely you have a lint problem. It takes longer to dry clothes With hot, moist air kept inside the dryer drum, it takes much longer and more heat to dry the clothes. This is hard on your dryer, your clothes, and reduces the life of both. Clothing is hot to the touch Clothing is supposed to be hot and fresh from the dryer, right? Wrong. If your clothes – or your dryer are noticeably hot to the touch at the end of a cycle, it means the dr...

  More than 300 quarantined in Lowndes County Schools By Desiree Carver desiree.carver@gaflnews.com Jan 16, 2021 VALDOSTA – More than 300 students are quarantined within the Lowndes County School System, according to the system's weekly COVID-19 update.  One-hundred-sixty-four of the students are isolated due to possible exposure at school and 194 remained quarantined due to community exposure.  Lowndes County Schools reported 24 new positive student cases out of the system's student population of 10,538. Six new employee cases were reported out of 1,390 employees and five are quarantined due to possible exposure at school. An additional 18 are quarantined due to possible community exposure.  "For the past seven days, Lowndes County Schools positive COVID-19 cases of faculty and students is .25% compared to the Lowndes County community data reported by the Department of Public Health of .214%.

  Get Ready for Taxes: What’s new and what to consider when filing in 2021 English Español 中文 (繁體) 한국어 More In News IR-2020-272, December 8, 2020 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today encouraged taxpayers to take necessary actions in the final weeks of the year to help file federal tax returns timely and accurately in 2021. This is the third in a series of reminders to help taxpayers get ready for the upcoming tax filing season. A  special page , updated and available on IRS.gov, outlines steps taxpayers can take now to make tax filing easier in 2021. This year, there are some key items to consider involving credits, deductions and refunds: Recovery Rebate Credit/Economic Impact Payment.  Taxpayers who received an  Economic Impact Payment , should keep  Notice 1444, Your Economic Impact Payment , with their 2020 tax records. They may be eligible to claim the  Recovery Rebate Credit  on their tax year 2020 federal income tax return if: they di...

  Valdosta City Schools suspends all Middle, High School spring sports Submitted Report Valdosta City Schools Mar 12, 2020           As of Friday, March 13, Valdosta City Schools will suspend all middle and high school spring athletics indefinitely following the recommendation from the Georgia High School Association (GHSA). Our current spring athletics are baseball, golf, soccer, tennis and track & field. All cheerleading tryouts and the Newbern Middle School dance team tryouts will also be postponed and made up at another time. District and school officials will meet early Friday morning to discuss the Governor's recommendations for future school closures. An official statement will be released by the end of the day tomorrow. "We appreciate everyone's patience and understanding as we walk through these unchartered times. As always, the safety and well being of our students, faculty and staff will be at the forefront of all decision making," said Dr. W...

  ever!   21 Goals to Set For Yourself to Make 2021 Your Best Year Ever   Learn a New Skill   One of my favorite things about blogging is that I have learned SO many new skills that I absolutely did not set out to learn.  It’s really helped me to learn how much I love learning new skills and has pushed me to branch out and try learning new skills that are completely separate from my business as well.  There are SO many resources online to help you branch out and try something new.  Two of my favorites  are  CreativeLive  and  Skillshare , both of which have TONS of classes available (and if you use one of those links ^^ you can get a free trial).   Create a Monthly Budget   I feel like money-related goals are some of the most common people set for themselves every year, so I definitely had to include some on this list! If you don’t currently have a budget, that is honestly the first goal from this list that I would tackle....