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newsroom@reviewonline.com SALINEVILLE — Southern Local is making plans for those students who may need to get caught up following the past year and a half of online and hybrid classes as well as the switch from one to the other. Although the board of education on Tuesday passed the school graduation requirements for this year, a resolution that allows students to use their class grades to meet requirements instead of end of school exams, the tests will still be a good marker for the other students, according to Superintendent Tom Cunningham. He told the board the results from current testin...

New federal data offers a glimmer of hope in what has been the darkest and deadliest corner of the pandemic. The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths at America's nursing homes has dropped significantly since December as millions of vaccine doses have been shot into the arms of residents and staff. The weekly rate of COVID-19 cases at nursing homes plummeted 89% from early December through the second week of February. By comparison, the nationwide case rate dropped 58% and remains higher than figures reported before late October. Nursing home cases are at the lowest level since May, when th...

newsroom@reviewonline.com SALINEVILLE — Happy to be back in school, Southern Local administrators on Tuesday talked to the board about upcoming programs, activities and ways to work toward catching students back up after so much time in virtual classes. High school and junior high principal Jay Kiger said when the students returned it was obvious some had not been on a schedule of getting up early, but they were happy to be back at school. The high school is preparing for testing at this time. Elementary principal Rich Wright reported on the plan to begin intervention for students in grades...