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Award-winning instructor announces retirement

In a brief LinkedIn post, Mark Smith, an award-winning technology instructor at Reed-Custer High School in Braidwood, Illinois, announced his retirement from teaching after this year. "New news," Smith wrote in his post, "this is my last year of teaching and the school has hired my replacement to work with [during] my last year."

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Trex adds 500 new jobs to Little Rock

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Trex Company Manufacturing, a global composite decking company, finishes construction on its new production facility in Little Rock. The move is expected to bring 500 new jobs to the capital.Trex held a 'topping out' ceremony Thursday morning to celebrate the new facility, not far from the Little Rock airport.Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Little Rock city officials were there to mark the occasion.