Playing the Waiting Game: After a strong start to the season, Marauders are stuck sitting idle
12/24/20 4:25 AM
FORTVILLE A seasonal marketing strategy for TV programming and even Spotify for those streaming enthusiasts the “25 Days of Christmas” often conjures feelings of warmth, fun and joy around the holidays.
For the Mt. Vernon boys basketball team, however, those festive winter words hold an entirely different meaning, especially this season.
A team without an opponent since Dec. 5 and nearly that day as well Marauders boys basketball has been idly frozen in place this month, and barring any further changes, the program’s layoff from games will mark exactly 25 days.
Challenging Times: Wrestling continues to feel impact of pandemic era
12/16/20 11:48 PM
FORTVILLE Earlier this month, Mt. Vernon wrestling coach Chad Masters was looking forward to some sort of normalcy.
After spending the required time in COVID-19 contact tracing quarantine prior to and shortly after the Marauders’ season opener against Western on Dec. 2, Masters played the waiting game before returning to the wrestling room.
The Marauders had recently competed in the Shamrock Duals on Dec. 5, and finally, Masters was cleared to work with his team again.
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Mt. Vernon’s Carson Johnson works against Greenfield-Central’s Matt Wickham during the 132-pound match at the New Palestine 4-way meet on Dec. 21, 2019. (Rob Baker/Daily Reporter) By: Rich Torres | Daily Reporter/rtorres@greenfieldreporter.com
COVID-19 Vaccine: What you should know
12/11/20 7:09 AM
GREENFIELD In the Keen Classroom on the lower level of Hancock Regional Hospital, rows of tables with tall sharps containers standing next to each one have been set up in anticipation of administering the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations.
The hospital’s inoculation station could see its first activity as soon as next week, assuming the Pfizer vaccine the first hope in the race to an immunity-building medicine wins emergency use authorization. A U.S. government advisory panel convened on Thursday to decide whether to endorse large-scale use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to help conquer the outbreak that has killed close to 300,000 Americans.