WESTERLY — It was a festival atmosphere in Wilcox Park as Westerly joined other communities on Monday afternoon for a celestial celebration that culminated in an almost, but not quite,
Ohio indoor entertainment events can soon reopen with limited capacity: Capitol Letter
Rotunda Rumblings
Change of venue: Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday that re-opening indoor entertainment venues will be limited to 25% capacity, while outdoor events including professional sports will be limited to 30%, under new coronavirus rules that will be coming soon from his administration. Per Andrew Tobias, DeWine said venues also will be required to enforce social distancing from unrelated groups and require masks. He also said he hopes the restrictions will be gradually loosened as months go by.
Deadline enforcer: Attorney General Dave Yost sued the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday, trying to force the agency to comply with a legal March 31 deadline to provide final data from its 2020 census. As Tobias reports, Yost’s lawsuit says Ohio could miss its own legal deadlines in its redistricting process, or be forced into a bitter fight over “alternative” data if the census information is
Assumption University students spending spring semester training to be COVID contact tracers
Updated Feb 16, 2021;
This semester, some Assumption University students are training to become contact tracers as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
The Worcester university said the effort will bring real-world experience into the classroom and help the city respond to the pandemic. Assumption said in a statement that the university is partnering with Worcester’s Division of Public Health’s Academic Health Collaborative to deploy the students as contact tracers later this spring.
Students in an upper-level biology course called Infectious and Epidemic Disease will explore the basic biology of COVID-19 and also complete 20-hour trainings required to become a Massachusetts contact tracer.