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EAST ST. LOUIS – O’Fallon Township High School expelled tenth grader Zariah Anthony for alleged "mob action" after bullies attacked her, according to a suit her mother Niesha Anthony filed. ....
Concern over crowd sizes as COVID flexes The Apalachicola Times A spike in deaths related to COVID-19 throughout the county, coupled with a rise in the number of cases and a steady administration of vaccinations, can draw some attention. This pandemic isn’t leaving without a fight, and may be coming out of its corner with a knockout punch in its gloves. As of Tuesday, 10 people in the county had died due to the pandemic, a sharp increase over the four who for many months had been the total death toll. Three of the victims have been between age 55 and 64, four under age 74, two under age 84, and one age 85 or older. One inmate has died at the Franklin Correctional Institution. ....
Dispatch from Eastpoint: Requiem for an oyster and a way of life By Richard Bickel Guest Columnist (Editor’s note: this article originally appeared earlier this month in The Tallahassee Democrat) There is, perhaps, no town in America that so profoundly reveals the human toll from a loss of a fishery than Eastpoint. Perched on the edge of Apalachicola Bay, whose waters once provided 90 percent of Florida’s annual oyster harvest and 10 percent of the nation’s, tiny Eastpoint, population 2,000, is literally built on a foundation of oyster shells. Indeed, dig anywhere along the town wharf where fish houses have for over a century shucked and packed literally tons of the bivalves, shipping them to lands far and wide, and your shovel will hit nothing but oyster shells from five to 10 feet down. ....