H.S. Roundup: Amherst girls cap standout season with win over Minnechaug
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Published: 2/28/2021 6:29:03 PM
The Amherst Regional girls basketball team closed its season with a 56-33 road win over Minnechaug on Saturday.
Delaney MacPhetres and Mayouri Yath led the Hurricanes with 11 points each.
Sophie Highma added nine points, while Sara Hastie had eight.
Amherst finished the season 15-1.
Ice hockey
Chicopee Comp 6, South Hadley 2 – Ryan Tucker and Austin Deren found the net, as the Tigers closed the season late Friday. Tucker scored 6 minutes, 22 seconds into the second period, while Deren’s goal came 12:06 into the third.
Alpine skiing
Having one of the new coronavirus vaccines does not mean Britons, including pensioners, can act with wild abandon and go off to the bingo halls , the Deputy chief medical officer has said.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam was asked at Wednesday s Downing Street press conference whether people who have had two doses of a vaccine would still have to follow strict rules such as not seeing their families.
The scientist defined the question as whether it s OK to behave with wild abandon and go off to the bingo halls and so forth .
He said a lot was still unknown about whether jabs stopped people passing the disease to others and urged people to be patient .
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Britain s regulators today approved the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, offering renewed hope the end of the pandemic could just be months away.
Officials said the jab will be made available from next week , while Health Secretary Matt Hancock claimed the approval now offers high confidence the UK could get out of this by spring .
It comes after Britain yesterday recorded more than 53,000 infections in record daily high amid fears hospitals may be overwhelmed by spiralling admissions within days.
Here, MailOnline answers all the questions about the jab including how it works, when it will be rolled out, and how many Britons could be able to get it every day.
More than 4,000 coronavirus heroes in Oxfordshire have been thanked for their role in fighting the pandemic by taking part in lifesaving research. A total of 4,366 patients and volunteers took part in 22 studies to help researchers prevent, diagnose and treat Covid-19. Since the pandemic began, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has helped recruit more than 600,000 participants nationally to help with research, including 1,816 at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 527 at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, 343 through Oxfordshire’s GP practices and 1,680 at the University of Oxford and local care homes. Prof Keith Channon, Director of Research and Development at Oxford University Hospitals, said: “The extraordinary progress in our understanding of Covid-19 – including how it is transmitted, how it affects the body, how it can be treated, and prevented – is a reflection of the scale, scope and speed of the many research studies and tria
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Randy White is the first to acknowledge that some people might be wondering if he has lost his mind.
“Let’s buy a restaurant during a pandemic?” White puts the question to himself. “Most people would say this guy has lost his rocker. But I see an opportunity.”
That “opportunity” was to reopen Farmer’s Table Cafe, adjacent to Rum Brook Market at Exit 13 off Interstate 89 in Grantham, a couple weeks ago. The restaurant had been closed since March when previous owner Sara Hastings shut it down during the first wave of the pandemic.
White, a former Dartmouth-Hitchcock IT specialist whose rock band often played gigs at the cafe, purchased it from Hastings “name, decor, the whole works” and brought back many of the restaurant’s kitchen crew and front house staff, along with “95% of the menu.”