Northeast Indiana has to say goodbye to many outstanding girls cross country runners from the class of 2021, including 2020 state runner-up Zoe Duffus .
Trampled Plants & Stressed-Out Wildlife What Have We Done To The Great Outdoors? Refinery29 3 hrs ago Angela Lashbrook
I live within a block of a small but beautiful park in New York City. The place has been a refuge during the pandemic: groups of friends hosted cold-weather picnics, kids attended bundled-up birthday parties, and I took many very long, very necessary walks with my dog through the park and beyond. We all needed to get out of our homes; the outdoors felt like the only other place that was safe.
Now, the weather’s getting warmer, and those sporadic, chilly park get-togethers are transforming into bustling crowds; even if vaccinated, many people are not yet comfortable doing indoor activities, taking over outdoor recreation areas instead. It’s beautiful to see everyone so happy, emerging like butterflies from their wintery cocoons, as they gather in the sunny park and cherish the patches of nature we’re so lucky to have access to amid the
Driver killed in collision between SUV and dump truck, police say
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
A South Jersey woman was killed Thursday morning when her SUV collided with a dump truck at a Gloucester County intersection, authorities said.
Brooke Hansen, 35, of Williamstown, was traveling south on West Malaga Road in Franklin Township around 11:30 a.m. when witnesses said she failed to stop at a traffic signal and struck the dump truck, which was traveling west on Coles Mill Road, according to township police.
Hansen was trapped in her vehicle, they said.
Emergency responders were able to get to her through the driver’s door and “paramedics and EMTs made life-saving attempts, but were unsuccessful,” police said in a statement.
National Guard soldiers receive first vaccines in county, part of DOD initiative
12/17/20 12:20 PM
Indiana National Guard soldiers and airmen lined up, one after another, to get shots that could protect them from COVID-19.
For months now, they’ve been on the frontlines essentially, helping in the fight against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic per Gov. Eric Holcomb’s orders. On Wednesday, they received the first COVID-19 vaccines to be distributed in Johnson County.
Troops from around the state reported to the Johnson County National Guard Armory in Franklin to take some of the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines apportioned to state military personnel in the country.