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Penn State Health begins giving COVID-19 vaccinations to patients Updated Jan 20, 2021; Posted Jan 20, 2021 Dr. Stephen Henderson with Penn State Health Cocoa Outpatient Center, gives 73-year-old Lynn Davis from Cleona, a Band-Aid Wednesday after he gave her the COVID-19 vaccine. Facebook Share Penn State Health on Wednesday began providing initial COVID-19 vaccinations to patients, one day after the state expanded eligibility under its phase 1A vaccination plan. The health system is directly reaching out to offer vaccinations to patients who meet the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s (...

Teachers unions and some lawmakers have pushed Massachusetts to scrap a standardized testing requirement in a pandemic-impacted school year, but the state and some advocacy groups still want public schools to administer tests this year. Preparing for and administering the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam, opponents fear, would take away learning time that is especially scarce due to the pandemic. Moreover, some question the ability of standardized testing to measure student performance, since test results are often shown to correlate strongly with race and family inco...

LEE — A post-holiday spike in COVID-19 cases has prompted Lee Public Schools to send students home — temporarily — for remote learning. And Berkshire Hills Regional School District students will remain in remote learning mode for at least another week. Lee district officials made the decision to suspend the hybrid education model as of Monday, likely lasting until Jan. 26, according to Superintendent Michael Richard. State health officials reported Lee has been in the “red” the last two weeks, reporting a positivity rate of almost 10 percent as of Jan. 7.  The red zo...

COVIDACTNOW.ORG BERKSHIRE TOWNS IN RED ZONE: The following Berkshire communities are now listed as "red" in the state's COVID-19 chart, the category signaling a concerning presence of the virus, as adjusted for community size. After community name, the figures reflect the number of new cases in the last 14 days out of a stated number of tests: Adams (29 cases of 739 tests); Cheshire 34 of 340; Great Barrington (30 of 1,325); Lee (74 of 745). The following communities were ranked yellow, one category below red: Lanesborough (18 cases of 317 tests); Lenox (21...

GREAT BARRINGTON — As pot shops bloom in a legal landscape, so might problems. But there is a tariff on recreational cannabis that state and local officials hope will counter them called Community Impact Funds — one that already has amounted to $1.7 million in town revenue from Theory Wellness. Now, $185,000 of that fund money can be spent, and the town is giving it to four local organizations and the school district to help prevent or solve any fallout from legal pot. That amount represents the company’s first-quarter fee to the town, after opening in January 2019. On Monday, ...