Elijah Packer, a senior at College of Charleston, gets a COVID-19 test at a S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control pop-up testing site on campus on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. After a months-long search, Dr. Edward Simmer was chosen to lead DHEC and its 3,500 employees. File/Lauren Petracca/Staff
By Lauren Petracca lpetracca@postandcourier.com
Dr. Edward Simmer. File/Provided
A career military medical officer was chosen Tuesday to lead South Carolina s public health agency, filling a months-long vacancy amid the biggest health crisis in a century.Â
The agency s board members voted unanimously to put Dr. Edward Simmer in charge of the state Department of Health and Environmental Control and its 3,500 employees, saying his experience and leadership qualities checked off all their boxes.
Reynoldsburg Roundup: Wrestling team primed for successful season
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The weekend before the state tournament was postponed last March, the Reynoldsburg wrestling program had its first Division I state qualifier in six years when Noah Ratliff advanced by placing third at district at 152 pounds.
The Raiders lost Ratliff to graduation he went 45-7 last season and finished 119-35 for his career but they don’t believe they’ll endure a similar drought between qualifiers going forward.
Leading a group of talented returnees is sophomore Logan Smalley, who won a sectional championship at 120 and was 30-5 before being unable to compete at district because of injury.
if you re a parent of a teen i imaginer, no shock. these day, text messaging maniacs. folks at the research center and university of michigan found that the typical teen sends somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 texts a day and presumably they ve got a similar number coming in. then you ve got a sizable number of kids sending more than 100 texts a day. that s over 3,000 a month. and, yeah, this is a big jump in a short amount of time. the percentage of teens who text their friends daily doubled between 2006 and 2009. here to talk about teens and texting with us is vanessa van patton, founder of radicalparenting.com. excellent title. good to see you. thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. we probably shouldn t be too shocked as we said about the numbers. what s the new danger? what is out there that parents didn t have to be worried about that they really now should pay attention to? you know, i think that now more than ever we re seeing a generation that s extremely