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Originally published on April 12, 2021 7:22 pm
Rachel Patin did not want to get any of the three available COVID-19 vaccines. They were all produced too quickly for her comfort.
“[There’s] just not enough history, enough testing,” the Iberia Parish home health aide said.
But on April 7, she reluctantly found herself at a vaccination clinic at the Cypress Bayou Casino Hotel in neighboring St. Mary Parish.
There were a few things that helped to change her mind. First, the shot that was being administered that day was Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine. She said she wouldn’t have taken one of the two-shot options. Second, she and her husband really miss traveling.
In some cases, that meant canceling events such as the Heritage Days Festival and Garrett Alumni Reunion.
The annual alumni golf outing still took place, and school leaders throughout DeKalb County worked with county health officials to determine how to conduct in-person classes.
Safety accommodations were in effect that enabled a new queen to be crowned at the annual Miss Garrett pageant.
This article looks back at news events in July and August.
July
As COVID-19 wreaked havoc on nearly every aspect of society in 2020, the Garrett-Keyser-Butler school district invited parents to complete a survey regarding plans for re-entry plans for the upcoming school year.
Dec 30, 2020
Testing for the novel coronavirus this past week at Muskogee County/City Detention Facility turned up 95 inmates with positive tests.
Sheriff Terry Freeman said testing was undertaken as a precautionary measure, one of many implemented by his office since the first COVID-19 case in Oklahoma was reported March 6. Those proactive measures, he said, kept coronavirus outside the jail until September, when a smaller outbreak was limited to 23 positive cases. We re going to keep doing what we do, Freeman said Wednesday after results arrived for the tests that remained pending a day before. We are very proactive about monitoring inmates even before they test positive â if we even suspect somebody might be infected, we monitor them and any symptoms they might have.
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Police called to deadly hit-and-run crash in Marlboro County Police lights (Source: Hawaii News Now/file) By Brad Dickerson | December 22, 2020 at 9:49 PM EST - Updated December 22 at 9:49 PM
MCCOLL, S.C. (WMBF) – Authorities have been called to a deadly hit-and-run crash in McColl Tuesday night.
According to McColl Police Chief Terry Freeman, the crash happened on Arcadia Drive, in the area of the Ashlyn Park Apartments.
Information on the South Carolina Highway Patrol’s website states the collision happened at 6:37 p.m.
No other information was immediately available.
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