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LISBON The new industrial maintenance equipment is ready for the students of the Utica Shale Academy and the school’s director Bill Watson said now they just need the students to return to be able to use it.
Because of COVID-19 restrictions the students have been working on the portions of the program they can complete virtually and Watson said Tuesday much of that work is now done. The students need to be in the lab in order to complete the program this year.
Watson said even if the school is unable to fully reopen, he is hoping to work with the Columbiana County Health Department to get small groups students in the lab during separate times.
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Jamie Elenz, the medical services administrator at the county health department, opens the first boxes of the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19, which were delivered to the department on Tuesday morning and immediately sent to the Salem Regional Medical Center so the hospital can begin immunizing health care staff.
LISBON While the Columbiana County Health Department is celebrating the arrival of doses of the Moderna vaccine, Laura Fauss, public information officer for the agency, is urging county residents to “celebrate but celebrate small” this holiday season.
Vins said the first 200 doses to arrive at the health department on Tuesday were sent off to the Salem Regional Medical Center, which had not yet received any, unlike East Liverpool City Hospital, which received some directly on Monday. At the same time, federal providers are sending the vaccines to nursing homes. This is an effort to provide vaccines to frontline health care workers and the mos
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CALCUTTA Beaver Local has joined the growing list of school districts that are switching to all-remote learning when classes resume following Christmas break.
Superintendent Eric Lowe announced at Monday’s school board meeting that all students will learn from home for the first two weeks of 2021 and return to the classroom on Jan. 19 in an attempt to buy more time against the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Although the number of people testing positive for the first two weeks following Thanksgiving remained flat statewide, it increased by 21 percent locally, according to the Columbiana County Health Department.
Local public health officials are worried about a similar spike after families gather for Christmas and New Year’s, and Lowe said having all students learning online from home for the first two weeks of the year will hopefully help slow any increase in the number of positive cases among students and staff when they do return to in-person c
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CALCUTTA Beaver Local has joined the growing list of school districts that are switching to all-remote learning when classes resume following Christmas break.
Superintendent Eric Lowe announced at Monday’s school board meeting that all students will learn from home for the first two weeks of 2021 and return to the classroom on Jan. 19 in an attempt to buy more time against the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Although the number of people testing positive for the first two weeks following Thanksgiving remained flat statewide, it increased by 21 percent locally, according to the Columbiana County Health Department.
Local public health officials are worried about a similar spike after families gather for Christmas and New Year’s, and Lowe said having all students learning online from home for the first two weeks of the year will hopefully help slow any increase in the number of positive cases among students and staff when they do return to in-person class
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LISBON While the Columbiana County Health Department is celebrating the arrival of doses of the Moderna vaccine, Laura Fauss, public information officer for the agency, is urging county residents to “celebrate but celebrate small” this holiday season.
Vins said the first 200 doses to arrive at the health department on Tuesday were sent off to the Salem Regional Medical Center, which had not yet received any, unlike East Liverpool City Hospital, which received some directly on Monday. At the same time, federal providers are sending the vaccines to nursing homes. This is an effort to provide vaccines to frontline health care workers and the most vulnerable in our population, those in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.