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HALF OF NC ADULTS HAVE RECEIVED AT LEAST ONE DOSE OF VACCINE: At least 980,498 people in North Carolina have tested positive for the coronavirus, and 12,780 have died since March 2020, according to state health officials. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services reported 1,932 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up from 1,798 reported the day before. At least 1,006 people were hospitalized with the coronavirus as of Friday, down from 1,031 on Thursday. As of Wednesday, the latest day for which data is available, 4.4% of coronavirus tests were reported positive. Roughly 50% of adults in North Carolina have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 43.6% were fully vaccinated as of Thursday.
BSA Troop 606 Honors 9 Eagle Scouts
Yasmine Fukushima is Irvine s first female to achieve the rank.
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IRVINE Scouts BSA Troop 606, led by former Boys’ Scoutmaster Greg Nylen (currently Chris Bank) and Girls’ Scoutmaster Thomas Doherty and chartered by the University United Methodist Church in Irvine, is proud to announce nine scouts who recently attained the rank of Eagle Scout at its first-ever virtual Eagle Court of Honor ceremony that was held on Feb. 8.
This class of Eagle Scouts includes Irvine’s first female Eagle Scout. Scouts BSA, formerly Boy Scouts of America, has officially allowed females to join the scouting program and earn the rank of Eagle Scout since Feb. 1, 2019. Troop 606 was one of the first in Irvine to welcome female scouts and Yasmin Fukushima has been inducted as one of 1,000 in the inaugural class of female Eagle Scouts that was honored by a National Scouts BSA on Feb. 20, 2021.
Travis County Judge Andy Brown (from left), former Congressional candidate Julie Oliver, Council Member Greg Casar, and Mayor Steve Adler appeal for increased voter turnout in the May 1 special election before casting their respective ballots at City Hall on Thursday, April 22 (Photo by John Anderson)
Since Austin voters in 2012 approved moving Council races to the same November ballots as state and federal elections, there s only been one special election held in May (Texas other uniform election date) before now: the 2016 effort by
Uber and
Lyft to overturn Council s ride-hailing regulations, on which the companies spent more than $10 million and lost by 10 points. That campaign expected to turn out low-propensity Austin voters with its avalanche of paid media and direct mail, but managed a mere 17.3% turnout – still a marked improvement on the prior norm for May elections (the mayoral race in 2012 between
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Although we’re still not able to go to full performances in indoor venues, soprano Heather Dials and Camerata del Sol have been offering a musical gift to listeners in Las Cruces and El Paso: free mini-concerts at area churches with music selected for the weeks leading up to, and now following, Easter. The 30-minute program of arias by Bach and Handel has already been presented in several churches with more scheduled for the coming weeks. For Dials, who has performed on opera stages around the world and now makes her home in Las Cruces, the concerts are an opportunity to sing two arias she has never sung in concert before.