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Woody Marshall, News & Record Woodbury joined Alex Bohannon, Andrea Bramer, Deanna Kaplan, Elisabeth Motsinger and Marilyn Parker in voting for the recommendation, while Leah Crowley, Dana Caudill Jones and Lida Calvert-Hayes opposed it. The universal masking policy will be evaluated after nine weeks. It applies to students, staff members and visitors inside the school district’s buildings and vehicles, including buses. Masks can come off as soon as someone is outside. Asked by...

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board is expected to take an important vote this evening. The members will consider whether students in grades K-8 should be required to wear masks when they return to school on Aug. 23, after a year spent largely at home, thanks to COVID-19. For some, this may be a heated topic. But for all, it’s one that should be approached with a degree of humility. We should all want what’s best for the children — the policy that will best protect thei...

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Martin Faced with an arena-sized public-relations gaffe, Forsyth County officials quickly decided Thursday to postpone action on plans to build a 50,000-square-foot event center at Tanglewood Park. People who live in Clemmons West near the park are complaining that they knew nothing of the event center plans until reading about it in Monday’s Journal, and say an event center that close to their homes will disrupt their lives and spoil their use of the park. “It will be very obtrusive ...

As key COVID-19 metrics continue to rise in North Carolina — particularly new cases, the positive test rate and hospitalizations — Gov. Roy Cooper has scheduled an update for Wednesday likely to focus on statewide masking policies. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services reported Tuesday a three-month high in the statewide positive test rate to 7.3%, and a six-week high on COVID-19 related hospitalizations at 672. New cases were reported at 871 for Monday, while there were si...

Vaccinated teachers and students dont need to wear masks inside school buildings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines. The changes come amid a national vaccination campaign in which children as young as 12 are eligible to get shots, as well as a general decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. With COVID-19 cases back on the rise, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended on Monday that students and staff be fully masked, r...

New federal healthcare guidance announced Friday allows vaccinated middle and high school students, teachers and other educators to go maskless in K-12 indoor settings. Local public-health and school officials expressed hope that the relaxing of some COVID-19 restrictions by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could spark another round of vaccinations. However, the officials also expressed concern that the new guidance could take the COVID-19 vaccination honor system to a who...

Priest New federal healthcare guidance announced Friday allows vaccinated middle and high school students, teachers and other educators to go maskless in K-12 indoor settings. Local public-health and school officials expressed hope that the relaxing of some COVID-19 restrictions by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could spark another round of vaccinations. However, the officials also expressed concern that the new guidance could take the COVID-19 vaccination honor system t...

With K-12 school openings in North Carolina about six weeks away, we have a grand opportunity to prepare to avert disaster later by demanding that substantial COVID precautions be required of students, faculty and staff — especially as the more contagious delta variant spreads in the Southern states. School districts and administrators have been advised to continue to require students to wear masks indoors and maintain 3 feet of distance by infectious diseases experts and health care resea...

With the start of the 2021-22 school year for K-12 education just six to seven weeks away, some infectious diseases experts and health-care researchers continue to advise that school districts and administrators continue to require masks indoors. They said they agree that K-12 schools should be open, and that 3 feet of distance between students is sufficient. The experts and researchers say there are three main factors behind their recommendations: The likelihood of the delta variant — whi...