Looking back on one year of the pandemic Author: Adam Crum Published 4 days ago
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Print article This past week, Alaska marked the one-year anniversary of our state’s public health disaster emergency declaration, first enacted on March 11, 2020. On the same day, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the National Basketball Association suspended all basketball games after a Utah Jazz player tested positive. A day later, Alaska announced its first positive COVID-19 case in a nonresident cargo pilot. The day after that, then-President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency to help fight the pandemic and enacted travel restrictions on non-U.S. citizens traveling from 26 European countries.
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There were 218 calls for service reported to the Teton County, Idaho Sheriffâs Office between March 5 and March 11. Officers performed 42 traffic stops and 20 security checks of local businesses. There were two accidents, one slide-off, one DUI, and six ambulance runs to Grand Targhee.
BILLINGS - Faculty at Beartooth Elementary are asking for the public s help in identifying a vehicle associated with vandalism of their playground late Friday night. Â
Beartooth Elementary Principal Travis Niemeyer says a parent awoken by a loud vehicle Friday night emailed him about joy riders leaving donut tracks on the school s property.
When Niemeyer checked out the tracks Saturday morning, which left large chunks of sod and packed mud ridges, neighbors came out offering to check their Ring doorbell cameras, hoping they may have caught the vandals.
Principal Niemeyer says he was shocked someone would do this and has had to close off a section of the playground to avoid any students twisting their ankles in the three to four inch divots left behind.
There is a question I would ask, if given the chance to confront the myriad people who demand the rollback of COVID restrictions, demand the “right” to go maskless, demand