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Coronavirus

Warren General prospering despite pandemic

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 ...

District provides teaching options for quarantined students

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 ...

31 new cases, another death added to county COVID-19 totals

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 ...

Local jobless rate up for third month in a row

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 ...

Lawmakers prepare to keep pandemic waivers for 6 more months

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 ...

District releases school closure plan

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 ...