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CADIZ Harrison County recently reported an increase in its COVID-19 related deaths bringing the county’s total deaths to 24.
On Tuesday, the Harrison County Health Department reported an additional five deaths. Garen Rhome, administrator of the county’s health department, said the sudden reported increase is due to a change in how the department reports the cases.
The newly reported deaths are actually from the end of last year, but were just recently confirmed COVID-19 related deaths through the individuals’ death certificates.
Due to the health department’s lack of “timely” access to the death certificates, it was only recently able to add the five deaths to the county’s total.
WOODSFIELD More than 200 teachers and staff of the Switzerland of Ohio Local School District received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine against COVID-
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WOODSFIELD More than 200 teachers and staff of the Switzerland of Ohio Local School District received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine against COVID-
JEWETT Friends and family are mourning the deaths of the chief and assistant fire chief of the Jewett Volunteer Fire Department, who died on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
Assistant Chief Richard Miser, 69, of Jewett, was shot by a man who then killed himself as his former girlfriend was forced to watch, according to Times-Reporter news partner WTOV Channel 9 in Steubenville, which quoted Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla. The suspect, also deceased, is 67-year-old Terry Miller from Hammondsville.
Fire Chief Frank Dennis “Denny” Kovarik, 78, of Jewett, died Monday in a McCandless, Pa. hospital with his wife Betty by his side, according to the obituary posted by Koch Funeral Home of Scio.