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County jail safety was the topic of discussion both in Columbus and in Marietta on Tuesday.
Protocols are under scrutiny at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office following an outbreak of coronavirus at the Washington County Jail at the close of January.
Meanwhile, State Rep. Jay Edwards, R-Nelsonville, also spoke at an afternoon press conference concerning a proposed remodel of funding for county jails.
¯ COVID Outbreak
Chief Deputy Mark Warden confirmed Tuesday that the county jail has experienced recent confirmed cases of the coronavirus making its way through pods of the jail.
“We’ve got a rash if it in the pods,” explained Warden. “The problem is when they are asymptomatic and we don’t have places to isolate.”
By Chris Turner
Feb 15, 2021
Iowa is reversing its decision to withhold COVID-19 vaccine doses from three of the five counties who didn t use 80 percent of their allocations last week.
The Washington County Health Department posted on Facebook it would get its vaccine allocation this week.
Chickasaw County Health Director Lisa Welter told the Des Moines Register the state told them they would try to send the county its expected doses this week.
Photo by Janelle Patterson
Busy Bee Restaurant owner Larry Sloter was named Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Historic Harmar Bridge Company on Tuesday in the latest course correction to refurbish the privately-owned historic landmark used and beloved of the public.
“We’ve got the people in place with our current board and our current committees that man I’m excited about what the next six months are going to bring– let alone what the next two years are going to bring,” said Sloter, 41, of Devola. “I wouldn’t be doing this if I was not positive that we can pull it off and I wouldn’t have accepted the chairman position if we weren’t on the path to having all of the previous issues corrected. So I’m confident that everything is going in the right direction.”