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Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funding will begin pouring into Bucks County this month.
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan will pump the largest sums yet in federal COVID-19 relief into the area an unprecedented $298 million combined for Bucks government and the 54 municipalities here, as well as the area s 13 public school districts.
State and local governments are expected to receive the first distribution of funds no later than Monday. The balance of the funds will be sent a year from the first distribution, but no sooner.
Who s getting what?
Bucks County government is projected to receive $121 million, while its municipalities will share in some $75 million.
Between October and mid-November I worked more overtime hours covering the presidential election than I can ever recall working in a similar span in my 15-year career as a newspaper reporter.
So, as one might imagine, I was eagerly awaiting more like desperate for a two-week vacation planned for Thanksgiving week as mail-in and absentee ballots were still being tallied by the Erie County Board of Elections.
But two days after Thanksgiving, it hit. First it was the chills, then a 101-degree fever and a complete loss of taste and smell. My energy was sapped. I panted like a dog any time I needed to do anything physical. Worst of all, my wife and two of our three daughters tested positive for COVID-19, too. Only our 10-year-old Sophia was asymptomatic.