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As a foot and a half of freshly fallen snow surrounded him on the Leominster Common, Featherstone the pink flamingo was looking ahead to spring.
A handful of people gathered on the common Tuesday morning, Feb. 2, for the sixth annual event featuring the lawn ornament that made the city of Leominster famous. They wanted to know whether Featherstone would see his shadow. If he did, spring will be coming early. If he did not, there will be six more weeks of winter.
Once the group counted backwards from 10, and after Leominster Mayor Dean Mazzarella blew a pink vuvuzela, he announced the answer.
A spike in deaths has put unusual strain on the death care industry By Tim Grant, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Published: February 8, 2021, 6:00am
Share: Christine Gale outside her office downtown Thursday, Jan 28, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette/TNS)
PITTSBURGH The system for issuing death certificates in Pennsylvania is so backed up that it took a month for Christine Gale to receive one from the state Department of Health after her father died on Thanksgiving Day.
Normally it would have taken only a few days.
But the surge in deaths that began in November, largely driven by the increase in COVID-19 cases, has caused an administrative pile up in Harrisburg, where bureaucrats process the paperwork from funeral homes and coroners.
Saint John nursing home reports third death amid 25 active cases of COVID
Families with loved ones at the Shannex Parkland in Saint John have been informed of a third death at the Lily Court nursing home unit.
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A “BULLY” throttled his partner with such force he broke their bed, a Swindon court heard. Robert Gale, 26, also pushed his son’s mother into the bath, resulting in her falling under water, pulled her hair and kicked out at a car after he thought the woman’s friend was smirking at him. But the Grange Park man was spared an immediate spell in custody after a judge at Swindon Crown Court heard he was remorseful, had stayed out of trouble in the 18 months since the offences took place and still regularly looked after their son. He was no longer in a relationship with his victim.
Posted: Jan 07, 2021 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 7
Marina Gale, 80, evaded COVID infection during last month’s outbreak at Shannex Parkland Saint John. But her son, Robert Gale, wants to know why nursing home staff and residents haven t received a vaccine and why there s no clear commitment on when it’s coming.(Robert Gale/Submitted)