While some some schools decided to go to remote learning, other districts declared Tuesday a snow day with an almost puckish enthusiasm. Enjoy your day off tomorrow! This is great binge-watching weather, Jacksonville school superintendent Steve Ptacek wrote in a social media post Monday. Tuesday will be a snow day (No School For Students). Williamsville sledding hills will be open, countered Williamsville-Sherman superintendent Tip Reedy.
With lingering snow, deteriorating travel conditions and single-digit temperatures, many districts made the decision early Monday to close or go to remote learning on Tuesday. Many school districts were off school Monday for Presidents Day.
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The Springfield area was expected to get close to eight inches of snow Monday accompanied by single-digit temperatures and wind gusts of up to 25 MPH making for wind chills in the 20-below range.
The snow affected area travel and schools.
Alex Erwin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Lincoln, said Springfield and Sangamon County remains under a winter storm warning until 6 a.m. Tuesday
By Bethany Bilyeu
As we are quickly moving through this new year, many of us have spent time reflecting on the past year, and 2020 provided us so much to reflect on. In past years, there are several things that we can safely say are behind us as we look at them in the rear-view mirror. However, this year, there are still many things that we will continue to navigate.
The thought of having to keep fighting through the many challenges brought by COVID-19 can be exhausting to say the least, but when I look back at the last year I am filled with hope that things can and will change.