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a day ago
- Business
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Bay District School's upcoming job fair
BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – School may be out for students, but Bay District school administrators are working hard to fill vacant jobs. Bay District Schools is hosting a job fair on June 23 to help fill open instructional and support positions. All candidates should bring a copy of their high school diploma or college degree, a resume and a cover letter. HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital highlights Men's Health Month Starting salary for teaching position is $50,000, plus a full benefits package. Administrators say they're looking for compassionate, hardworking people with the right mindset to work with students. 'As a principal of Hiland Park, we're looking for people with high energy, with the certification of bachelor's degree in elementary education. Preferable, but alternative certificates work too. We want folks that have a heart for kids. And ultimately, that's where that's where educators start, right? We all have our why of why we go into education. So we're looking for people that want to work with children,' said Hiland Park Elementary School Principal Ilea Faircloth. Construction progresses for Panama City Garden Club project 'We're hoping to be able to attract many qualified and certified teachers. We want to make sure that we are recruiting the most qualified and certified, committed professionals to work with our students,' Executive Director of Human Resources Holly Buchanan said. The job fair is set for June 23 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mosley High School. 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. will be for those interested in instructional or teaching positions. 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. will be for support staff jobs. For a full list of the job openings, click Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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4 days ago
- Business
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Farmers gather in Marianna for 2025 Perennial Peanut Field Day
JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Farmers from around the state met in Marianna on Friday, June 6, for the 2025 Perennial Peanut Field Day. The Perennial Peanut Producers Association hosted the annual event in partnership with the UF IFAS Panhandle AG extension team. The educational program featured five innovation updates about the industry, with tips for planting and harvesting. Bay District Schools hosting summer job fair for 2025-26 school year Farmers also discussed the state of the industry. 'I think the biggest challenges are always the cost of the inputs that we have to use. Fertilized chemicals, we've seen those go up this year. This is a very unique crop. So the people talking today are from the university, and we're still learning a lot of new ways to grow this crop and what to do with this crop. So, with it being a newer crop, there's always the challenge of not knowing what you're doing, sometimes affecting you down the road,' Perennial Peanut Producers Association President Tyler Putnal said. The program was followed by a tour of the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center's beef and forage research unit. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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16-05-2025
- Politics
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Senate Bill 1470 could increase public school safety; see what measures are already in place in Bay County
BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – The Florida House and Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 1470, which overhauls public school safety and pushes for stricter requirements. One of the biggest upgrades will affect communications, instituting a centralized panic alert system and digital maps for all campuses. The bill also requires any district with a security partnership with sheriff's offices to have a guardianship program. The Bay District oversees dozens of schools with over 27,000 students. While Florida lawmakers are pushing for certain measures to be required, Bay District is ahead of the game by having some of those measures already in place on their campuses. School district officials did a full walk-through Thursday at Haney Technical College with fire and police. They inspected every nook and cranny, looking for safety concerns. District safety director Vern Barth said these routine walk-throughs allow them to develop measures before they are required. Bay County transforming Issac Byrd Park 'We've already gone full scale with all of our digital mapping and grid systems. All of our first responder agencies have those to be able to respond to the correct area, correct location at the time,' BDS Safety Director Vern Barth said. The district also rolled out a guardianship program following the 2018 school shooting in Parkland. 'We do have Guardians throughout the district at different schools, and it's just an extra layer of protection and security on top of our normal school safety officers,' Barth said. 'We like to layer our security to make sure that there's more layers, kind of like layers of offense. You know, you might have an interior fence that is behind an exterior fence, and you think, why do you have so many different layers? Layers are what slow the threat down and allow us to buy time for the good guys to come in,' Barth added. Governor DeSantis has yet to sign the bill. If he does, it will become law on July 1st. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
