Illegal, fentanyl-laced drugs have already killed at least four area teenagers, and local officials say they are now concerned about a large spike in overdose calls received by MedStar ambulance service within the past three months. About a year ago, MedStar was receiving eight to 10 overdose calls a month. Since
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Montgomery: Vaccines for COVID-19 are now widely available, but some people remain hesitant to take the shots, State Health Officer Scott Harris said Friday. After months of struggling with getting an adequate supply into the state, Harris said health officials are now trying to battle some people’s reluctance to sign up for doses. While people can be reluctant to take the vaccine for a variety of reasons, one is the false belief that the vaccine is more dangerous than the coronavirus, he said. “If you can identify one single issue that is a problem, it’s that there are people who are just convinced that the vaccine is somehow more dangerous than the disease,” Harris told reporters. “That’s a false belief we have to try to combat as often as we can. It’s simply not true.” Nearly one-third of Alabama’s population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. However, that figure ranks the state third from last
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Heidi Acott had been thinking about the dress she would wear to her senior prom since middle school.
When the Rocky Mountain High School senior arrived Saturday night in the dress she had designed and made with her grandmother accompanied by her matching mask it likely was not the prom she had dreamt about.
But she was excited nonetheless.
Acott had no hesitations about attending her senior prom despite it being hosted in a parking lot and her only being able to dance with the friends she signed up with because it s a rite of passage. Her pod of three entered the parking lot excited to play games and dance the night away, even if they were limited to their assigned square.
A Colorado Springs-based team of gifted middle- and high-school students recently defeated dozens of competitors to win a statewide science competition.
Homeschool Science Colorado, which is comprised entirely of homeschool students, won both the high school and middle school divisions of the state’s Science Olympiad tournament. It was the first victory in either division for a Colorado Springs-based team since 2011, when Cheyenne Mountain High School took the state title.
Established in 1984, the Science Olympiad applies science-based principles and techniques to competitive events.
It is not a science fair. It’s more of an Olympics of the mind, in which critical thinking and problem solving take the place of running, jumping and throwing.