Lufkinâs new mayor sworn in during city council meeting
Lufkin s new mayor sworn in By Stephanie Frazier | May 4, 2021 at 9:20 PM CDT - Updated May 5 at 1:58 AM
LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - On Tuesday evening, the new mayor of Lufkin was sworn in.
At the city council meeting, Mark Hicks took his seat as the Mayor of Lufkin.
Hicks was sworn in by District Judge Bob Inselman. Hicks won the mayoral election this past weekend and takes over for Bob Brown who is stepping down after nine years.
Hicks will give up his Ward 4 seat where there will be a runoff election between Kim Ogden and former Angelina County Judge Wes Suiter. It will take place June 12.
City Nature Challenge begins today across the state
Challenging people to record wildlife observations
Begins today
and last updated 2021-04-30 08:35:45-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â Coastal Bend residents will have the opportunity to venture outside and connect with nature during the 2021 City Nature Challenge from April 30 through May 3.
This four-day competition is part of a statewide network of city nature challenges that individuals, couples and families can join. All that is required is a smart phone.
Then, snap a photo of wildlife in your backyard, at local parks, green spaces, nature preserves or wildlife refuges using the iNaturalist app. Photographs of captive or domestic organisms are strongly discouraged.
Since West Virginia was not part of the program, it did not need to hold vaccines in reserve. It has heavily relied on its National Guard to ferry vaccines around the state. It has turned its Guard headquarters into a command center for state agencies. Rather than limit the vaccine to medical workers, first responders, and nursing home residents, West Virginia also included essential workers, some as young as 50.
Governor DeWine said Thursday that some hospitals have struggled with getting shots into arms. In surprising numbers, Ohio medical workers have been reluctant to take the vaccine. Initially as few as 40 percent of nursing home staff took the vaccine. Those numbers have climbed during second visits to facilities. Meanwhile, West Virginia has nearly finished vaccinations for nursing homes, medical workers, firefighters and police. Soldiers distribute the vaccines in military convoys running out of that state s headquarters.
Among the first individuals to be vaccinated in Toledo were doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists. Author: Amy Steigerwald Updated: 6:49 PM EST December 15, 2020
TOLEDO, Ohio Employees at St Vincent Mercy Medical Center received the first round of COVID-19 vaccines on Tuesday. Among the first local individuals to be vaccinated were doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists. All work in areas of the hospital that interact directly with COVID-19 patients.
The hospital received 975 doses of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday morning. That will cover 975 people, and all those people will get another round of shots three weeks from now.
The plan of doctors in the hospital is to vaccinate about 300 people per day.