âKeep our heroes stop layoffsâ read one sign held by a staffer.
âHonk to support our heroesâ and âOur community deserves better,â read other signs.
Queen of the Valley has laid off at least 12 workers since November.
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On May 7, the hospital is planning to lay off 11 more workers including four cooks, a courier, and six emergency room technicians, who provide direct patient care including conducting blood tests, taking vital signs and providing wound care, said a news release from the National Union of Healthcare Workers.
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Editorial: Monday Shorts: Taxi!
Published: 4/25/2021 4:16:50 PM
Here are some brief thoughts on recent happenings in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region.
One of the biggest roadblocks to employment in a rural county is transportation. The 101 cities and towns that make up metropolitan Boston boast subways, trains and buses, none of which we have to a practical extent around here, where cars rule.
For want of a car, jobs are lost.
Late-shift workers are especially vulnerable. To address this problem, the Franklin Regional Transit Authority (FRTA) announced a pilot program funded by the Metro Area Planning Council creating a bridge service to allow late-shift workers time to fix or buy a car and thus become self-sufficient, explained FRTA Assistant Administrator Michael Perreault.
1,493 people have died, unchanged since Friday 5,573 people have been hospitalized, 4 more than yesterday’s total 1,008,756 people have been tested, 537 more than yesterday’s total
One week ago, those totals were 91,438/1,483/5,446/991,687.
WEST SEATTLE TRENDS: Time for our weekly check. These numbers are shown in two-week increments via the “geography over time” tab on the daily-summary dashboard; to determine WS status, we combine the totals from the West Seattle and Delridge “health reporting areas” (HRAs): For the past two weeks, 165 positive test results; 103 in the 2 weeks before that; also 103 in the two weeks before that. … We also are noting WS death totals each week. The total deaths for the entire pandemic in the two HRAs comprising West Seattle: 65, unchanged again in this past week.
The issue of drug smuggling at the Canyon County jail turned deadly last December, leading to a renewed push from the sheriff’s office to find a solution.
Two inmates at the county jail in Caldwell have overdosed in the past four months while smuggling in drugs. One of the women survived, but the other died at a local hospital.
County jail Capt. Harold Patchett said visitors and inmates trying to sneak drugs into prisons and jails has been a problem for as long as he can remember. He’s worked in the jail for 18 years, and he said it first started with marijuana and cocaine, but now the big problems are heroin, opioid pills and fentanyl.