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â Ash Wednesday was observed by Christians throughout the region on Wednesday. This year s observance took on a different tone due to the pandemic. Priests and ministers distributed ashes using disposable cotton swabs, rather than tracing the sign of the cross on the foreheads of the faithful with their fingers.
â Wyoming Valley West finishes its distribution of Chromebooks to high school students last Thursday and began distributing the devices to middle school students this week. The district is issuing Chromebooks to all students in grades 4-12. The district received 3,200 Chromebooks in late January, nearly six months after it ordered the $720,000 purchase.
Coronavirus vaccination sites have been closed and public transport and flights cancelled because of heavy snowstorms in the eastern part of the United States.
More than 16 inches of snow was dropped on Manhattan’s Central Park and as much as 30 inches reported in northern New Jersey.
Parts of northern New England are now waiting to be pummelled by the winter storm.
Two young sisters help their mother dig out her car in Pennsylvania (Jacqueline Dormer/Republican-Herald via AP)
The National Weather Service said a foot or more could be on the ground in New England by the time the snow finally tapers off in the northernmost states by Wednesday evening.