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By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  June 4, 2021 | 8:13 p.m. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) on Friday released revised COVID-19 workplace recommendations, which are expected to go into effect no later than June 15 if approved. “Last year, the board adopted health and safety standards to protect workers from COVID-19,” the California Department of Industrial Relationssaid in a statement. “The standards did not consider vaccinations and required testing, quarantining, masking and more to protect workers.” The cha...

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Housing and Development Newsletter Of the new cases reported Thursday, five were from the Santa Maria Valley and two were from Santa Barbara.  Five of the new cases were among residents between the ages of 18 and 29, one resident who tested positive was between the ages of 30 and 49, and one was between the ages of 50 and 69. As of Wednesday, just over 51% of all eligible Santa Barbara County residents were fully vaccinated, and just over 43% of the entire county’s population was fully vaccinated, according to the county’s Community Data Dashboard. Ten winners selected on June 15 will re...

By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  May 25, 2021 | 4:15 p.m. Santa Barbara County remained in the orange tier of the state’s tiered COVID-19 reopening framework on Tuesday despite the Public Health Department’s expectations of meeting the yellow tier criteria for the first week. The county was just shy of meeting the yellow tier case rate criteria as it reported an adjusted case rate of two daily new cases per 100,000 people on Tuesday, but that number needed to fall below two in order to qualify for the yellow tier. The county needs to meet the yellow ...