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JIM COCHRAN
The Marshall County Health Department will resume clinics and programs this month, including three that will start on Monday.
These clinics have not been available since March 20, 2020, the result of COVID-19.
Administrator Tom Cook said that some employees had provided services by appointments at the health department, while others had been in matters dealing with restaurants.
All of the clinics and programs which will be back in service will be held at the health department at 513 Sixth St. in Moundsville.
Some of the clinics will need appointments, the phone number of the health department telephone number is 304-845-7840.
Media Alert: Second Round of USGS Dye-Tracing Study on the Kansas River Begins This Week
Release Date:
April 28, 2021
U.S. Geological Survey and partners will inject a harmless, bright red fluorescent dye into the Kansas River on April 29, weather permitting. The study is being done by the USGS in cooperation with the Kansas Water Office, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, The Nature Conservancy, City of Manhattan, City of Topeka, City of Olathe and WaterOne.
The Kansas River provides drinking water for multiple cities in northeastern Kansas and is used for recreational activities. This dye-tracing study will provide a better understanding of how quickly water flows from one location to another. Water-resource managers use this information to effectively respond to potential critical events such as harmful algal blooms or contaminant spills that may make the water unsafe for the public to use. The first segment of this study occurred in late September 2020.
JIM COCHRAN
Local historian Thomas James recently donated three military reference books that he compiled and gave to the three Marshall County libraries–Moundsville, Cameron and Benwood-McMechen.
The book is titled “Honored Patriots of Marshall County, West Virginia.”
James undertook this research project at the invitation of the Marshall County Commission. His work details the military service of 464 county soldiers who died in the line of duty.
The scope of the project encompasses those who served in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf Wars.
The names of these soldiers are engraved on five granite monuments in the Veterans Plaza on the Marshall County Courthouse.
The secret to fighting the next front in the war on COVID-19 may well sit in a nondescript building in southeast Topeka.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment lab is the nerve center for the state s efforts to unravel, document and share the genetic makeup of COVID-19 samples a vital component for tracking the spread of a rapidly growing number of variants that have arrived in the state.
But Kansas, and the United States as a whole, trail many other parts of the world in that process, known as whole-genome sequencing, something which experts believe needs to be corrected to remain competitive in staying ahead of a virus that is only going to keep evolving.