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Updated Mar 17, 2021;
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Gerald Wingert, 92, a resident at Messiah Lifeways, greets his daughter Lorene Mylin of Shiremanstown as nursing home visitation resumed Monday. The father and daughter hadn t met in person in more than a year. Photo by Joe Hermitt, PennLive.com
The pandemic year
Happy tunes: Harrisburg’s State Street Academy had to shut down in-person music lessons a year ago, but kept teaching online. An unconventional recital, however, proved the teachers’ methods worked. Read more.
Cases continue: Pennsylvania reported 3,119 new COVID-19 infections and 65 new deaths on Tuesday, raising the state’s death toll to 24,652. Read more.
Harrisburg s State Street Academy refuses to let the music die during COVID-19
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Jazz musician mourns COVID-19’s heavy toll on Pa. players: ‘They’re all dying’
Updated Mar 19, 2021;
Posted Mar 16, 2021
Musician Tim Warfield has missed performing on stage. He s also mourning musicians who have died in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Sean Simmers |ssimmers@pennlive.com
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There is no minimizing the 525,000-plus American lives lost to COVID-19. But something else was lost: the lifestyles, livelihoods and those many seemingly ordinary things we once loved to do all disrupted by the pandemic and resulting societal restrictions. Marking the one-year anniversary of Pennsylvania’s lockdown, PennLive is chronicling the stories of “What We Lost” – people, places and things changed by the coronavirus.
What we lost: Pa. school students are anxious, depressed and falling behind during COVID-19
Updated Mar 19, 2021;
Posted Mar 15, 2021
Jessica Knapp, left, is executive director of Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania. Angelica DeSantiago, right, is site coordinator at Susquehanna Township Middle School for Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania. | Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com
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ABOUT THIS SERIES: There is no minimizing the 525,000-plus American lives lost to COVID-19. But something else was lost: the lifestyles, livelihoods and those many seemingly ordinary things we once loved to do all disrupted by the pandemic and resulting societal restrictions. Marking the one-year anniversary of Pennsylvania’s lockdown, PennLive is chronicling the stories of “What We Lost” – people, places and things changed by the coronavirus.
Singer shares her gift with students, teaches them to spread joy through music PennLive.com 2/19/2021 Steve Marroni, pennlive.com © February 12, 2021 Sean Simmers |ssimmers@pennlive.com/pennlive.com/TNS Amy Yovanovich has been singing since she was little. Her father told her early on it was a gift from God, and she s sharing that gift in concerts and by teaching children at the State Street Academy of Music in Harrisburg
Editor’s note: During Black History month, PennLive is paying tribute to the people who are helping shape what will some day be the history of the Black community in Central Pennsylvania. These are people who are, in some way, examples of excellence who inspire those around them for the work they do, the art they create, or the causes for which they fight.
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