Dallas County Reports a Total of 415 New Positive 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases and 7 Deaths, Including 90 Probable Cases
Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) provided more than 500,000 total doses of COVID-19 vaccine at the Fair Park mega-vaccine clinic, which operated from January 11 through July 17. A vaccination clinic is open at the Dallas College Eastfield Campus Location on Thursdays – Saturdays from 9 am-6 pm. A weekly pop-up vaccination clinic […]
How to Get Rid of Mould on Clothes, Furniture and Walls — The Latch
The nonstop rain across New South Wales and Queensland has meant many households are dealing with a common and unpleasant side effect of rain and humidity: mould. Many are finding it growing overnight on clothes, food, furniture and walls, and aren’t quite sure what to do. Or even how, other than looking terrible, it’s affecting […]
Chinese COVID-19 Workers Beat a Pet Samoyed to Death With Sticks: Video
A video has surfaced in China of a Samoyed being beaten to death while its owner was in quarantine. In the video, two workers in PPE are seen beating the whimpering dog with sticks. In November, another Chinese woman said health workers entered her home while she was quarantining and beat her dog to death. […]
Benton Central gives updates on several activities and projects | Wcinews
Benton Central Jr.-Sr. High School has made some announcements to students, according to information from the school. Summer school forms are now available in the front office and students may see Mrs. Smith for a form. Classes offered are US Government, Physical Education, Life Academy & Supervised Ag Experience. All forms are due before students […]
New launches from Crate & Barrel and Clorox drop this week
Today is International Women’s Day, and March is Women’s History Month. Many brands are donating a portion of their sales to nonprofits that support women. For example, Cleancult is donating 50 percent of all sales sitewide to the Women’s Earth Alliance. Additionally, outdoor gear hub REI just relaunched its lifetime membership program with new and […]
Newton schools no longer require masks on buses – Newton Daily News
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Updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has led the Newton school district to discontinue the masking requirements on school buses, allow accessibility to drinking fountains and remove the phrase that indoor face-coverings “are recommended by the CDC” from its Return to Learn plan. Members of the Newton school board on Feb. […]
My Baby Is 2 Years Old. So Is the Pandemic.
For many people, or so I hear, the days and weeks and months of this pandemic have tended to blur together, into a static lump of time. For me, this time has had a different shape. At any moment, you could have asked me how many months we’d been doing this thing, and I could […]
Michigan’s early child care workforce is in crisis. Here’s why
The median hourly wage for Michigan child care workers — many of whom are women of color — was roughly $11 in 2019, with nearly one in five early educators living below the poverty line. That’s one of the findings from a January report that led two groups — the Michigan League for Public Policy, including Kids Count in Michigan, and […]
Poultry owners need to protect bird health
The Delaware Department of Agriculture has been warning poultry owners since January to take extra precautions to protect their birds after detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds in the Atlantic Flyway. Now, after a case of HPAI was announced in late February in a commercial poultry farm in New Castle County, DDA […]
Plenty of smiles, some nerves as ‘mask optional’ rules start in large N.J. school district
As the chapter on face masks in New Jersey schools ended Monday morning, future lawyer Diana Zanga did not hesitate when she arrived at Grove and Murray Streets in Elizabeth. Crossing guard, Deborah Walker, didn’t either. They hugged. But Zanga made sure her face mask was fastened on first and Walker had hers at the […]