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Lots of questions answered about COVID vaccines on WECTs Q&A By Frances Weller | February 2, 2021 at 9:30 AM EST - Updated February 3 at 11:56 PM WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - WECT, along with representatives from Novant Health and New Hanover Regional Medical Center hosted a Facebook live forum on the COVID-19 vaccine. The discussion, which will include questions from viewers, is taking place Wednesday at 8 p.m. See below for live link. The purpose of the forum is to have an open discussion a...

Patrick Stout MACOMB — McDonough District Hospital opened its relocated Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic on Monday. Public Information Officer Patrick Osterman said the move to the east side of the hospitals third floor places the clinic just two floors up from the Dolores Kator Switzer Womens Center. "The move allows women to stay in one convenient location," Osterman said. The Womens Center offers such services as OB delivery, gynecological post-surgery recuperation, and digital imaging tes...

Forty residents have tested positive and six have died since Dec. 4. Posted: Jan 11, 2021 2:38 PM Updated: Jan 11, 2021 6:23 PM Posted By: Joseph Paul WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Indiana Veterans Home is the latest long-term care facility in Tippecanoe County to experience a COVID-19 outbreak. But officials are hopeful vaccines administered there Monday will bring an end to the concerning chapter. Tamara Smith, director of admissions at the veterans home, was the first in line to be imm...

Lismore in flood recently. Photo Duncan Wilson. With heavy rain falling across the Northern Rivers this week, the risks faced by people living in floodplain areas are again coming into focus. This week Echonetdaily spoke to Dr Nathan Kesteven, President of Whian Whian Landcare, about the potential of the Northern Rivers Watershed Initiative to mitigate flooding and also improve the health of local rivers. He explained that the initiative has been in the works since the Lismore floods of 2017,...

The council has assured the community they are “going out of our way” to keep people safe.

The council has assured the community they are “going out of our way” to keep people safe.

Hans Lovejoy With public submissions on Rous County Council’s (RCC) proposed Dunoon Dam expected to be released Wednesday, December 16, Ballina councillor and RCC chair Keith Williams told The Echo that submissions he has seen so far indicate strong opposition. Plans by bureaucrats to build an additional dam for the area sparked community concern, owing to it likley wiping out Aboriginal cultural heritage and destroying an endangered ecological community of lowland rainforest. While Mr Will...