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Food security has been a major focus of the American Rescue Plan Act, which provided more than $12 billion in new nutrition assistance overall. That included a 15% increase in SNAP benefits, or $1.1 billion per month in additional benefits for about 41 million participants through September. An additional nearly $900 million was funneled into the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, including a temporary increase in fruit and vegetable vouchers to $35 per mon...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolinians will be allowed to assemble in larger groups and gather outdoors starting Friday without having to wear their masks. Gov. Roy Cooper announced Wednesday afternoon that the state will soon lift the outdoor mask mandate and boost mass gathering limits to 100 people indoors and 200 people outdoors, which represents a doubling from the current levels. The Democratic governors moves comes as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says vaccinated...

  Publishers Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Jon Brown.     Niagara Regional Police (NRPS) criminally charged two Ontario residents who organized a protest against their provinces strict lockdown measures last weekend, during which they hoisted an upside-down Canadian flag and used lights to issue a Morse code "SOS" signal toward the United States.     Cullen McDonald, 30, and Alicia Hirter, 43, were charged under Section 180(1)(a) ...

The North Carolina House has passed a bill that would give individual school districts more flexibility to set their own calendars.

Buncombe County will consolidate its COVID-19 vaccination efforts into one site at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and begin offering walk-up shots in May, after demand has declined for vaccinations from the county. With more and more vaccine supply and providers coming to the region, residents are now looking to get their shot when its convenient, Buncombe County Public Health Director Stacie Saunders told county commissioners in an April 20 update.  "As demand has waned, anec...

Shiv Nadar University Chennai Announces Admissions Open for Its First Academic Session 2021-22 Friday, April 16, 2021 11:00AM IST (5:30AM GMT) School of Engineering and School of Commerce & Management offer innovative and progressive programs designed to cater to new age careers   Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India:  Shiv Nadar University Chennai, the third initiative in higher education by Shiv Nadar Foundation, today announced admissions o...

Bergman & Beving AB: Bergman & Beving acquires Abtech Bergman & Beving acquires Abtech Workplace Safety, a division within Bergman & Beving, has today acquired all shares in the British company group Abtech, consisting of Abtech Safety Ltd, Outreach Organisation Ltd and Outreach Rescue Medic Skills Ltd. Abtech is a leading supplier of personal fall protection and rescue equipment in the United Kingdom that also provides advanced trainings and courses for the industrial sector and rescue special...

Mar 11 2021 Read 306 Times California-based BioMicrolab, a robotics automation provider for life science laboratories, has been acquired by instrumentation and consumables developer SPT Labtech. Patrick Bennett, Group CEO at SPT Labtech, said: "Over the last 25 years, BioMicroLab has established a well-deserved reputation as a dependable partner for intuitive and reliable benchtop automation. This important investment delivers significant benefits to customers by creating a powerful end-to-end ...

Innovation and tenacity: New ASAP report shows farmers faced big challenges in 2020 Mackensy Lunsford, Asheville Citizen Times ASHEVILLE - The pandemic upended months of business planning and decimated restaurant sales for local farmers. Popular Searches The other part of the message: resilience. In what should come as a surprise to virtually no one, this years survey was heavily influenced by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on local farms.  Of the 208 regional farmers wh...

COVID-19 in WNC: Focus turns to vaccine distribution Derek Lacey, Asheville Citizen Times © Angela Wilhelm/awilhelm@citizentimes.com A man rubs over a bandage on his arm after receiving a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Reynolds High School in Asheville January 26, 2021. As new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations stabilize following a surge in viral transmission over the holiday season, the focus in North Carolina is turning to vaccines. The first shots hit the first a...