Valley News hires Report for America photojournalist and climate reporter
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Modified: 4/27/2021 2:51:53 AM
WEST LEBANON Working with the national service program Report for America, the Valley News has hired a staff reporter to cover climate change and the environment and a photographer to buttress its local news, sports and feature coverage in the Upper Valley.
Claire Potter, who will graduate in June from the University of Chicago, will report on environmental and climate change issues in the Twin States, a beat of keen interest to many of the paper’s readers.
Potter’s experience includes working as a reporting fellow for ABC covering the Iowa caucuses and as an intern for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Nearly half of all St. Johns County residents have been vaccinated for COVID-19, the Florida Department of Health reported Friday.
St. Johns County has 116,674 residents who have at least one shot, or 49.54% of residents 16 and older.
The county ranks fourth for residents vaccinated behind Sumter (80,153, 66.24%), Charlotte (96,548, 54.56%) and Sarasota (220,131, 53.41%). Indian River (72,907, 48.29%) is fifth.
St. Johns County, which added 1,649 more fully vaccinated resident on Thursday, has reached a total of 80,637. The county administered 907 vaccines Thursday. It has vaccinated 34.24% of the total population and is still second in the state. Sumter has vaccinated 52.99% (64,115 complete).
These residents were completely vaccinated, either with a single Johnson & Johnson vaccine or the second in a series of two-shot vaccines.
Well before the 9 a.m. start time, dozens of Immokalee farmworkers lined up for COVID-19 vaccines beneath an overhang near vacant stores at a strip mall. Polonne Colin, 65, was among the first at the pop-up clinic.
The main reason she opted for the vaccine now, though she was eligible earlier: she sees everyone she knows getting it.
Rural health advocates who have ramped up efforts to reach farmworkers say demand for the vaccine is strong. And despite media reports and lawmakers concerns that Florida s residency requirements are hindering vaccination efforts for farmworkers, advocates say health officials are finding ways around them.
Well before the 9 a.m. start time, dozens of Immokalee farmworkers lined up for COVID-19 vaccines beneath an overhang near vacant stores at a strip mall. Polonne Colin, 65, was among the first at the pop-up clinic.
The main reason she opted for the vaccine now, though she was eligible earlier: she sees everyone she knows getting it.
Rural health advocates who have ramped up efforts to reach farmworkers say demand for the vaccine is strong. And despite media reports and lawmakers concerns that Florida s residency requirements are hindering vaccination efforts for farmworkers, advocates say health officials are finding ways around them.
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