Author: Staff Reporter

Covid gives us a chance to fix indoor air pollution forever

Like many issues concerning health, it’s a social problem too: those with the worst indoor air quality are probably the ones with the least capacity to do something about it. “When we’re thinking about improving our indoor environments, I think it’s really important that we think about how we enable people to get equal access […]

Slight water issue causes Mass. DEP violation | News

TEWKSBURY — Resi­dents will be receiving the next quarterly notice from the Tewksbury Wa­ter Department in the mail next week, informing them of a violation re­ceived from the Massa­chusetts Department of Environmental Protection. According to Scott Brinch, Assistant Director of Utilities for Tewksbury, the water department’s testing of the town’s water supply in the fall […]

6 Questions to Ask About Covid and Air Quality at Work

6 Questions to Ask About Covid and Air Quality at Work

  Disabling demand-controlled ventilation To save energy, some systems monitor building occupancy based on carbon dioxide levels, which rise when we exhale. When fewer people are in the building, the system reduces the rate of outdoor air. “It’s a way to stop ventilating the space to save money,” said Richard Corsi, incoming dean of the […]

What to do if you test positive for COVID-19

An unprecedented number of new cases are being confirmed every day in Dane County right now. Even if you made it through the entire pandemic not getting sick, because of the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, it is very possible you will test positive for COVID-19 during this surge. Over the entire pandemic, […]

Forsyth County group donates air purifiers to schools

As a new semester begins in Forsyth County a local group is trying to make sure that teachers and students are safe. Saturday afternoon, a group called Community for Safe Schools assembled and donated 70 air purifiers to Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. “Air filtration – removing virus and other pollutants to improve indoor air quality, is […]

How to check indoor air quality and when to test my home

If you are buying a home, any IAQ issues, especially radon, will probably be noted during the presale certified home inspection. Beyond that, Parsons doesn’t advise patients to have their home air quality tested without cause. “In my clinical experience, most triggers are detected by reviewing a patient’s medical history,” he says. “Poor air quality […]

Audio Astra: How we ignored the most popular COVID prevention — testing

Audio Astra reviews recent audio reporting on Kansas news, including podcasts and radio stories. Eric Thomas directs the Kansas Scholastic Press Association and teaches visual journalism and photojournalism at the University of Kansas. “A COVID Testing Crisis, Again” The Daily, Dec. 22, 2021 Have you read the news accounts of Americans protesting COVID-19 testing sites? The scores […]

Sanalife donates services to keep Golden Gloves safe – Lowell Sun

LOWELL — Beginning Thursday night, it will be tough to find peace in the ring at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. The ring will be a battleground for fighters throwing uppercuts, jabs and haymakers at the 75th annual Greater Lowell/Central New England Golden Gloves boxing tournament. Outside the ring, however, officials say Golden Gloves fans purchasing […]

Solex provides drinking water to Gothameegama

Associated Motorways (AMW), the marketeer of Castrol lubricants in Sri Lanka, opened a distribution centre in Anuradhapura… Orient Finance PLC, a member of the Janashakthi Group, has appointed Nalin Karunaratne as an Independent, Non-Executive… Southborough, MA (Jan. 4) – Virtusa Corporation  appointed  Rajeev (Raj) Mehta as its new Chairman of the Board of… DFCC Bank […]