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Residents want fair board to stop the infighting and bickering and get back to running the county's biggest event.

By Jef Rietsma Special to the Journal A longtime St. Joseph County Grange Fair employee has settled into a newly created position, and the fair board has several new members. Missi Tefft, who has been involved with the fair for more than three decades, was named fair venue coordinator. In the process, the fair lost a decades-long employee, Ruth Cornwell. Tom Miller, a fair board member and past president, said Cornwell did not apply for the venue coordinator position, choosing instead to retire. Miller described how the new position was created. “There was a restructuring and the board was ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Over the last 10 months, medical teams are getting creative. Duke Health recently introduced a new type of care for COVID-19 patients to free up the hospital beds and flatten the curve. Susan Sellers became one of the first patients to receive the new type of care. After a positive COVID-19 test, she found herself in the hospital. "They took X-rays and said I had COVID pneumonia," Sellers said. At that point, Sellers said she knew she'd be admitted. "It's just this dread that just kind of comes over me and I'm like, 'Oh gosh, I'm going to have to be here,'" Seller said.