January 31, 2021 at 11:53 PM
SPARTA, NJ - SPARTA, NJ – Sparta area students have earned accolades and degrees from their colleges and universities. Due to the pandemic, some information about the spring 2020 semester was only recently available.
Readers are welcome to share their students’ information by emailing jdericks@tapinto.net for future publication.
Jeremy Dericks, Nicole Donnelly, Alexis Faria, Jess Fenners, John Geba and
Maddi Roth have been named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2020 semester at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Swimming championships move from Bucknell
The PIAA Swimming and Diving Championships are usually held at Bucknell University every year, but because of the pandemic, this year s event was moved. Author: Nikki Krize Updated: 7:07 PM EST January 29, 2021
LEWISBURG, Pa. Even though students are not around, spring break is usually a busy time at Bucknell University in Lewisburg because the PIAA Swimming and Diving Championships are held there. The athletes and their families shop, eat and stay in hotels in the area. From all over the state, people look forward to it because they ll come all four years of high school. So you sort of get to have relationships with people and get to know them, Connie Harter said.
SCHOOL HONORS for Canton, Holbrook, Randolph & Stoughton students
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BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY
Steven Walker, of Canton, was named to the dean s list for the fall semester at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. To qualify, a student must earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher on a scale of 4.0.
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY
Aidan Kierce, of Canton, was named to the dean s list for the fall semester at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. To qualify, a full-time degree seeking undergraduate student must take at least 12 credit hours and earn a 3.6 quality point average during the semester.
Colin Cochran, of Stoughton, was named to the dean s list for the fall semester at the College of William & Mary.
(CNN) With progress in efforts for COVID-19 vaccines and predictions for when the population will receive them, there seems to be a light at the end of the long, harrowing pandemic tunnel.
As the physical risks are better managed with vaccines, however, what will likely still remain is the indelible impact of the pandemic weighing on the collective psyche. The physical aspects of the pandemic are really visible, said Lisa Carlson, the immediate past president of the American Public Health Association and an executive administrator at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. We have supply shortages and economic stress, fear of illness, all of our disrupted routines, but there s a real grief in all of that.