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Council briefed on rescue plan

Marietta City Council was briefed Monday on the impacts of the recently passed American Rescue Plan from the federal government. They were told that the funds from the rescue plan are strictly to be used for infrastructure projects, but the Times cannot corroborate that specific restriction based on the act language that has been signed into law. In a keyword search within the act’s language, infrastructure appears nine times explicitly, predominately identifying cybersecurity and public health analytics within digital infrastructure. According to the Buckeye Hills Regional Council ...

OU program to help distribute vaccines

Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Community Health Programs will distribute COVID-19 vaccines in southeast Ohio via its mobile clinics. OU announced the program Monday. The college will work with health departments in counties with the highest need for approximately two months to distribute the vaccines. “We have worked with communities in these counties for decades to deliver health care services, including administering vaccines,” said Ken Johnson, Chief Medical Affairs Officer and Heritage College Executive Dean. “We are working closely with ...

Monroe County teachers receive vaccine

WOODSFIELD — More than 200 teachers and staff of the Switzerland of Ohio Local School District received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19 last week. Linda Masters, administrator of the Monroe County Health Department, said multiple health department nurses traveled around to six of the district’s schools to administer the vaccine. A total of 237 teachers and staff in the district received their first dose Friday. Masters said the second doses will be administered on March 19, four weeks after the initial dose. Now that employees of the district have begun ...

Broughton community center plays host to vaccine clinic

Volunteers were at the heart of the clinic Monday at the Broughton’s community center on Ohio 821. First, an appointment for a time slot was confirmed in the parking lot driveway headed towards the community building. Early birds arriving for their appointment were asked to wait in ...

Region ranks high in Ohio’s COVID-19 cases

Coronavirus positive caseloads, weather delays of vaccine clinics and multiple boards of health meetings have put public health back in the spotlight this week outside the confines of a January outbreak of the virus in the county jail. Tuesday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine released an updated list ...