ST. ALBANS â A new group of executive officers is set to lead the Franklin County Regional Chamber of Commerce (FCRCC) after recently getting elected. Among them is Alisha Sawyer, who will be the chamberâs president come 2021.
Sawyer, who works at Northwest Medical Center (NMC) and is the current vice president of the chamber, will be taking the president role for the first time after being on the FCRCC Board of Trustees for nearly three years. She previously served as the chamberâs executive director 15 years ago.
Filling the vice president seat Sawyer is leaving will be Candace Lewis, associate academic dean at the Community College of Vermont. Aaron Reynolds, chief financial officer at Peoples Trust Company, retains his treasurer role while Cari Kelley, campaign coordinator for the United Way of Northwest Vermont, rounds out the executive officers as the immediate past president.
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – The number of people in Arkansas hospitalized because of the coronavirus hit another new high Wednesday.
The Arkansas Department of Health reported the state’s hospitalizations due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, rose by 13 to 1,174.
The state’s virus cases rose by 3,184 to 222,430 and 34 more people died from COVID-19, bringing the state’s total fatalities to 3,637.
“We continue to see high numbers of new cases and capacity pressures on our hospitals,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson said in a statement released by his office. “I urge everyone to be careful as we enter another holiday to reduce the virus spread, and we need to support each other as Arkansans while we work to distribute the vaccine.”
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Good morning and happy New Year s Eve! In today s edition, we look at the top five stories in Franklin County from the past year, police are seeking information on an apparent drive-by shooting, and we sit down with the Franklin County Regional Chamber of Commerce s president elect.
Scenes like this one, of staff at the Rail City Market working from behind face masks, will become more common next week as non-essential stores are allowed to reopen their doors.MICHAEL FRETT/Staff Writer
Pandemics, protests and parades: These are top 5 stories from 2020 in Franklin County
Protests: Incidents led to attempts at policy-level reforms within the St. Albans department, while the officers involved were removed from SAPD if they hadnât left already. Meanwhile, a national conversation around policing and racism, spurred by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, made its way to Vermont â and to Franklin County.