Marc Piscotty
Jimmy Brown is Kiowa County s elected coroner, its only funeral director and a third-generation. Exceptional drought has prompted increases in anxiety and depression, but getting people to talk about it won t be easy.
EADS - The Splotch, as some here call the brown mark on the map they check weekly, is the color of scorched earth.
Here in Kiowa County, farmers have always relied on whatever moisture happens to fall from the sky rather than on irrigation. In August, this 1,300-person community bordering on Kansas was the first part of Colorado where drought conditions surpassed extreme to a level meteorologists call exceptional.
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GRAND JUNCTION | It started about four years ago when Laurel Carpenter and Melissa Humphrey bought matching parkas and then matching comfort shoes.
Lauren Carpenter and Melissa Humphrey work on a needlework project at Carpenter’s home in Grand Junction. The pair of nurses and working mothers have found strength and comfort in friendship during the pandemic. | COURTESY PHOTO
Soon enough, the nurses-slash-best friends from Grand Junction found themselves with matching chihuahua-print leggings and matching hoodies with fleece-lined pockets in which they carry their matching chihuahuas.
Then came the matching housecoats they exchanged for Christmas last month – the softest they could find, and also the dowdiest.
Deaths in Laois - January 25, 2021
Reporter:
The death took place on Sunday, January 24 of Breda McGrath of Clonmeen, Errill.
Peacefully in the tender care of the nurses and staff of Patterson s Nursing Home, Roscrea. Sadly mourned by her sisters Nellie (Bannon), Nan (O Keefe) and Angela Campion, sister-in-law, brothers-in-law, nephews, nieces, grandnephews, grandnieces, relatives, neighbours and friends.
As per the COVID 19 Directive a private funeral has been arranged. Due to the increased risk of infection and in the interest of public safety and in compliance with current guidelines, you are asked not to attend the funeral or congregate in the Church yard or the Cemetery.
Health director: No plan, only strategies for COVID-19 vaccine distribution January 20, 2021 at 4:10 PM EST - Updated January 20 at 5:46 PM
The Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County never created a plan for the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine in a county of nearly 1.5 million people, instead relying on what the department s director said is strategies.
Contact 5 requested a copy of the plan for distribution of the COVID-19 vaccination in Palm Beach County in public records request to the county s health department.
A spokesperson responded in an email, writing that the
Susan Greene, 81, of West Palm Beach, told Contact 5 she thought the department was not prepared for the vaccine rollout.