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School district updates FAQs as best it can

Without students in the schools, some typical end-of-year events are more complicated. Cleaning out lockers, proms, graduations, distribution of yearbooks, caps and gowns, etc. Updates to the Warren County School District’s frequently asked questions (FAQ) pages — including a page that ...

WCSD’s Phase 2 begins Thursday online and offline

The school buses will be out again on Thursday. They won’t be hauling students. Instead, like the last time they ran in Warren County, the buses will deliver packets of educational materials. The second phase of Warren County School District’s continuity of education plan kicks off Thursday, April 16. Only those students who do not have sufficient internet access to receive materials online — and all students who attend Youngsville Middle High School — will need to meet the buses. “There is online delivery of Phase 2,” Superintendent Amy Stewart said. “Schools have ...

‘Our hearts are breaking for these kids’

The school board is working on ways to recognize the senior class in the midst of a pandemic. In addition to its usual monthly business, the board talked at Monday’s regular meeting about graduation, photos, yearbooks, and other important parts of seniors’ experiences. So far, the ...

Ask the WGH medical team

The Times Observer asked the Warren General Hospital medical team to help us get information out to our readers through the COVID-19 FAQ-3. Twice a week, or more, we will pose our questions, and your questions, to the experts. If you would like the Times Observer to submit a question to the ...

‘Avoid crowds,’ ‘remain in the house’… Sound familiar? It was the Spanish Flu in 1918

“The slight increase in the number (of) cases has made it necessary for the Board of Health to take extra precautions to stop the further spread of the malady. Today, the entire city has been placarded with notices cautioning the people of the city to avoid crowds and if they have (the) slightest cough or cold to remain in the house until they have fully recovered.” That type of language could have been published in any newspaper in the United States within the last month. But it wasn’t. It was published in the Warren Evening Mirror on Oct. 22, 1918. And that was during the ...

Hey, kids, how about a free online art class?

Local artists are encouraging creativity during current downtimes. The father-daughter duo of Dan Nuhfer and Danielle Martin from D & D from Outland Studios on Facebook have been teaching painting classes in Warren and Chautauqua counties since 2019, but they are now hosting free, live ...