NORRISTOWN — Montgomery County health officials reported that additional cases of a more contagious coronavirus variant, first documented in the United Kingdom, have been identified in the county.
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ALLENTOWN – A group of Montgomery County citizens has voluntarily dismissed litigation they filed, claiming the lives of schoolchildren were being negatively impacted by a switch from in-person learning to virtual learning.
John Mark Niehls, Elizabeth Weir, Andrew Amrhein and Kate Amrhein of Montgomery County filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Nov. 20 versus the Montgomery County Office of Public Health and the Montgomery County Board of Health, both of Norristown.
(An amended complaint was filed on Nov. 30.)
“Notwithstanding research and guidance issued by the Center for Disease Control and Pennsylvania Governor [Tom Wolf], on Nov. 12, 2020, the Montgomery County Board of Health ordered all schools in Montgomery County from kindergarten through twelfth grade, both public and private, including special needs services, to cease in-school operations and switch to virtual learning from Nov. 23, 2020
NORRISTOWN — Montgomery County health officials reported more than 800 new positive cases of the coronavirus and 15 more deaths from the virus during the latest four-day period, as the
The bus yard will also remain locked in the Hatboro-Horsham School District.
Parents there were notified Wednesday the district will not be able to provide bus transportation for the rest of the week due to positive cases and mandatory quarantining.
District officials said more than 20 staff members, roughly 25 percent of their transportation staff, are currently out of work.
Read Perkiomen Valley School District Superintendent Dr. Barbara Russell s full statement below: There have been a series of positive COVID cases among employees of the Perkiomen Valley School District s transportation company, Student Transportation of America (STA). The District has contracted services through STA for the past 14 years. STA has been safely transporting Perkiomen Valley School District students since the start of school in September. Unfortunately, over the past several weeks, there has been an increase in the number of STA employees testing positive for COVID-19. Due to the number of cas