Students, teachers, and others who do not have a valid medical excuse will have to wear masks in Warren County School District schools starting Tuesday. At an emergency meeting Thursday morning, the school board could not come together on a motion to address the state’s new mask ...
The recent surge of COVID-19 cases in Warren County continued on Friday as the latest figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Health added 29 cases to the local tally. That is higher than the monthly totals of both June (21) and July (18) and the highest single-day total since there were 38 new cases on May 4. The total number of cases in the county was 2,881 as of Friday, with 2,206 confirmed and 675 probables. Warren County remains second lowest in the state in the number of cases per capita. There have been 73.5 cases per 1,000 residents. Susquehanna County has a slightly ...
As COVID-19 makes a surge once again, Warren General Hospital is making changes. “Today, we reinstated the weekly Warren General Hospital COVID- 19 Planning Team and held a meeting at 8:30 a.m.,” according to CEO Rick Allen. “This action and meeting was in response to the rapid rise in positive COVID-19 inpatients and high number of outpatients tested and discharged to quarantine through the WGH Emergency Room and Walk-In Clinic.” “As of this morning, we have six COVID-19 positive inpatients in the hospital,” Allen said. The number of patients was zero to three for months. ...
Students, teachers, and others who do not have a valid medical excuse will have to wear masks in Warren County School District schools starting Tuesday. At an emergency meeting Thursday morning, the school board could not come together on a motion to address the state's new mask mandate. After hearing comments from nine attendees – seven opposed to the mandate, two in favor – the members of the board voted down two possible motions. The first would have had the district “assuming” medical conditions that preclude face coverings when students, staff, visitors, and others ...
Local response to the statewide school mask mandate announced on Tuesday has ranged from the surprised to the strongly negative. Gov. Tom Wolf announced the mandate in conjunction with the state departments of health, human services, and education. “My office has received an outpouring of messages from parents asking the administration to protect all children by requiring masks in schools,” Wolf said in a Tuesday afternoon release. “The science is clear. The Delta variant is highly transmissible and dangerous to the unvaccinated, many of whom are children too young to receive the ...
The unemployment rate in Warren County ticked up again in July. The rate of 6.2 percent was higher than both June (6.0) and May (5.7), according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (L&I). There were about 17,200 people employed and 1,100 unemployed in the county in July, according to seasonally-adjusted statistics from L&I. Still, the number was far lower than the rate from a year ago. In July 2020, the county’s unemployment stood at 11.3 percent. Compared to June, there were about 200 fewer people employed in local government in July, and another hundred fewer in ...
