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Penn State Health is asking people not to go to the emergency department for routine COVID-19 testing.

Emergency departments at hospitals operated by Penn State Health should not be used by people seeking routine COVID-19 testing, the health system announced in a news release today.

They settled Rochester, wrote poetry, starred in movies, fought for civil rights, designed homes and invented a chip that changed our lives.

For now, the Berkshire Hills Regional School District School Committee has backed off from any notion of a vaccine mandate for students participating in extracurricular activities.

Berkshire County public school enrollment fell 1.1 percent from last year. That relatively small drop comes on the heels of severe student losses when the pandemic first hit.

The old building is shortchanging students academically, officials say. Its also unsafe.

Zoom bombers dont just rattle meetings. They also might be shaking the democratic process.

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Police said they have progressed in the investigation of a pornographic disruption on Zoom during a Massachusetts school district meeting Thursday. During a Berkshire Hills School District meeting on Zoom, three people interrupted the meeting.

A high school where only some students have to wear masks? Officials dont love this idea.

Monument Mountain Regional High School has been awarded a one-year, $300,000 grant to help in its ongoing efforts to reexamine, well, everything.