Lori A. Smyth, a former broadcast promotions director and a co-founder of Show Your Soft Side, a anti-animal-abuse organization, died Saturday. She was 53.
THE ISSUE: Itâs Monday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County. Local stories of achievement, perseverance, compassion and creativity represent welcome points of light in a difficult time, and they deserve a brighter spotlight.
Last week â even as we observed the sorrowful one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the novel coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic â there were many great and optimistic developments in our yearlong battle against COVID-19.
In short: The vital American Rescue Plan was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden; the president announced an acceleration of the nationâs vaccination campaign, directing states to make
On Thursday, exactly a year later, Murphy received his COVID-19 vaccination. It s funny looking back on how little we knew, Murphy, a second-grade teacher at Nitrauer Elementary School, said Thursday after getting his one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 headquarters in Lancaster.
It kicked off the first round of a massive effort to administer vaccines to teachers and staff from Lancaster County public and private schools. The IU13, one of 29 intermediate units across the state, is serving as a host site in collaboration with the Pennsylvania National Guard.
IU13 expects to receive about 5,400 vaccine doses in the first round of inoculations, which prioritizes teachers and staff â bus drivers, cafeteria staff, janitors and others â serving students in prekindergarten through sixth grade and at-risk student populations. The second round, for the rest of teachers and staff, is expected to take place at the end of March or early