Warren General Hospital continues to fight through the COVID-19 pandemic and is showing profitability despite it. But, that profit is not the goal in and of itself. “We have turned the bend on profitability, but it’s not about making money,” CEO Rick Allen said during the annual WGH ...
Warren County School District students who are denied entry due to close contacts with someone who is positive for COVID-19 are not excused from the educational process. As of Monday night, there were 109 students denied entry from their schools. According to a letter addressed to parents and sent home with students: “As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, the district’s contact-tracing team is finding multiple students in all buildings having to be temporarily denied entry to school. The students who are quarantined are either positive cases or a close contact to a positive case. ...
On the next-to-last reporting day of the month, Warren County surpassed 500 new cases of COVID-19 for September. There were 31 new county cases reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday, bringing the total to 3,345. There have been 510 so far in September. The department's Oct. 1 report will reflect the cases on Sept. 30. Also on Thursday, the department reported another COVID-related death in the county, bringing that number to 116.
Local unemployment continues to rise. The Warren County unemployment rate for August, released Tuesday by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (L&I), was up for the third consecutive month. The seasonally adjusted 6.7 percent unemployment reported for August reflects about 1,200 unemployed residents. August’s was the highest rate since March — 7.0 percent — and continued an upward trend begun in June. The last time the rate decreased was in May, when unemployment was down to 5.7 percent. The April rate was 6.5 percent. Since May, the rate rose to 6 percent in ...
The schedules won’t change, but the venues will in the event of an elementary school closure in the Warren County School District. The district published its elementary level short-term closure plan on Monday. “We have been running a lot of different scenarios... that doesn’t mean that we want to close,” Superintendent Amy Stewart said. “We don’t want to get caught flat-footed.” In the event of an elementary school closure, students will attend from home via the district’s Virtual Academy with their usual teachers. “Current students attending brick and mortar ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Legislature was preparing Wednesday to again extend hundreds of regulatory waivers that Gov. Tom Wolf's administration had approved under its pandemic-related disaster emergency authority. Lawmakers were poised to add another six months to a prior extension they granted, as the delta variant of the coronavirus is causing a statewide surge in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Lawmakers in June voted to end Wolf's pandemic-related disaster emergency declaration, under new authority handed to them by voters in ...
