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The Federated States of Micronesia border shutdown prompted 14 citizens, some of whom were unable to return home after the public health emergency was declared, to submit a complaint in FSM court.
According to the release from the president s office, the plaintiffs accused President David W. Panuelo of lacking the authority to close the borders and that the decision was not grounded in any power granted by the FSM Constitution.
Panuelo could have taken less drastic measures that would have allowed for citizens to return to the FSM, plaintiffs said.
The FSM Constitution does allow for the president of the FSM to declare a state of emergency and issue appropriate decrees, the release stated.
Originally from the Missouri Ozarks, she moved to Guam in 1980 when her husband came to work at NASA’s satellite tracking station. The University of Guam asked her husband if he could repair the planetarium projector, and she began accompanying him. She learned how to operate the instrument and gave shows for students while working as the biology lab tech at the Science Building.
The university eventually replaced the planetarium’s system in the early 1990s and she learned how to run the new one as well. They hired her as the planetarium coordinator when the new system was purchased in the early 1990s, a job she held until the planetarium closed in 2012. By then she had written more than 100 astronomy shows for the general public.
From staff reports
Megan Sales of Hendersonville Middle has been named the 2020-21 School Nurse of the Year for Henderson County Public Schools.
All school nurses were honored by the school district on National School Nurse Day Wednesday for the role they play in keeping students and staff safe.
Sales was nominated by her peers for the care she provides every day for her students and school, the Henderson County Health Department said in a news release.
“To be given the title of School Nurse of the Year truly is an honor after this challenging year during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Sales said in the release. “I believe we have an amazing team of school nurses who embody the definition of this title each time they step on their own school campus. I am proud to be a Henderson County school nurse.”