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Updated: 10:42 PM EDT April 29, 2021
MARTINSVILLE, Ind. There is plenty of COVID-19 vaccine available, but not enough people are willing to roll up their sleeve for the shot in the arm.
Clinics across Indiana have made it even easier for people to get the vaccine by allowing walk-ins instead of requiring appointments.
Indiana is seeing fewer new doses given each week, even though only about 34 percent of eligible people in the state are fully vaccinated.
The Morgan County Health Department opened a vaccine clinic in a former grocery store in Martinsville in January. The clinic gives between 250 and 300 of the Moderna two-dose shots a day, but in a county where only 23 percent of the population is vaccinated, public health officials wish the clinic was busier.
By Benjamin Cox on April 29, 2021 at 8:49am
The Village of South Jacksonville is planning to possibly re-up a tourism grant with one of Jacksonville’s biggest attractions.
Jacksonville Speedway operator Ken Dobson came to the Village Trustees proposing to re-up a tourism grant totaling $15,000 to help offset costs for advertisement and publicity for the racetrack. The Speedway previously received the amount in 2019. Dobson said last year held a lot of uncertainty with the COVID-19 pandemic, and he didn’t feel comfortable asking sponsors for money: “Honestly, in 2020 with COVID and everything, I didn’t reach out here. I knew that tourism was certainly struggling, and I didn’t reach out to a lot of our sponsors and advertisers. We just kind of limped through 2020 at the Speedway. We didn’t even get started until after July. We limited our capacity and followed the rules, limited ourselves to 500 people, and held 5 events that we could sort of make work u