Harrisburg’s Whitaker Center reopens to public with limited capacity
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
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The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, located at 222 Market St., Harrisburg, celebrated reopening its doors today with a ribbon cutting after having been closed to the public for much of the past year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Beginning today, the center’s Harsco Science Center and Select Medical Digital Cinema will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1-4 p.m on Fridays and Saturdays only, with limited capacity. Whitaker Center will use the 30-minute block of time between sessions for cleaning.
2021 will soon start to feel more normal, like before the COVID-19 pandemic. Can we handle it?
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
Posted Mar 11, 2021
Dining on the sidewalk at Arooga s Downtown on Second Street in Harrisburg. People enjoy a March day with temperatures in the mid to upper 60-degree range, March 10, 2021.
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There’s no flick-of-the-switch moment for when the pandemic will be over, they say.
And there’s obvious truth to that line of thinking. Different groups of people are getting vaccinated at different times. No vaccines have been approved for most school-age children yet. Some folks will refuse to get the vaccine at all. And above all, the virus isn’t going to just disappear.
Harrisburg’s Whitaker Center to reopen with limited capacity
Updated Mar 02, 2021;
Posted Mar 02, 2021
Whitaker Center, on Market Street, in the city of Harrisburg.
Thursday, February 16, 2017.
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The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, located at 222 Market St., Harrisburg, announced on Monday it will be reopening its doors very soon after having been closed to the public for much of the past year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Beginning March 12, the center’s Harsco Science Center and Select Medical Digital Cinema will be open from 9 30 to 12 30 a.m. and 1-4 p.m on Fridays and Saturdays only, with limited capacity.
– This year, plans are in the works to bring the orchestra to Lake Placid July 7 through Aug. 15. “We have the six Park Concerts slated for Wednesdays beginning with July 7 and are planning six Sunday concerts at the LPCA on Sunday evenings,” Deborah Fitts, executive director, said. “We also plan to perform in the ballroom at the Hotel Saranac on July 22. This said, we are simultaneously preparing alternative programs and venues if there are restrictions on size of audience or how many musicians we can have perform together at one time. “We’re expecting that we will have to be flexible, but hoping the situation with COVID is much safer by July.”
Today at noon, the next stage of the 2020 election is set to take place.
Twenty individuals from every corner of Pennsylvania will gather in Harrisburg to cast their votes for president of the United States, on behalf of the 3,458,229 voters who cast their vote for President-Elect Joe Biden.Â
They are the commonwealthâs presidential electors, appointed by the winning campaign to fulfill the duties laid out in Article II Section 1 of the Constitution, as well as the Twelfth Amendment, and codified in federal law.
And just as COVID-19 changed so many traditions this year, the meeting of Pennsylvaniaâs Electoral College is no different. Instead of convening at the Capitol in the chamber of the state House of Representatives for an ornate ceremony filled with pomp and circumstance, this yearâs gathering will take place in the Forum Auditorium, across from the Harrisburg Capitol Complex.Â