The East Lycoming School Board voted to move forward with the fall sports schedule at its virtual meeting Tuesday night. The vote means that all fall sports will continue but the district will need to comply with guidelines set by both the state Department of Education and the PIAA. In the ...
The East Lycoming School Board voted to move forward with the fall sports schedule at its virtual meeting Tuesday night. The vote means that all fall sports will continue but the district will need to comply with guidelines set by both the state Department of Education and the PIAA. In the lead up to the vote, the board discussed what some of those regulations entail. For example, there will be no spectators, according to the department of education, which has set a limit of 250 people at sporting events. That 250 can include the athletes, staff, coaches, cheerleaders and band members ...
As the novel coronavirus began to spread through Minneapolis this spring, Health Commissioner Gretchen Musicant tore up her budget to find funds to combat the crisis. Money for test kits. Money to administer tests. Money to hire contact tracers. And yet even more money for a service that helps ...
The Williamsport Area School District kicked off its week of virtual town hall meetings with Jim Ellis, principal at Stevens Primary School, outlining some of the changes that students and parents can expect in the upcoming school year. Ellis also answered questions that parents had submitted ...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania plans to launch a coronavirus exposure-notification app in early September in an effort to more quickly break chains of transmission by using the new technology to notify people who may have been exposed, officials said Monday. The state has a $1.9 million contract, using federal grant dollars, to deploy and maintain the app with software developer NearForm Ltd, the Ireland-based company whose app there has been downloaded by more than one-fourth of that country’s residents. The app is based on smartphone technology developed by Apple and Google, and ...
State Rep. Jeff Wheeland, R-Loyalsock Township, believes that local school districts should have more of a say in the decision-making process regarding athletics and other extracurricular activities. Passage of House Bill 2787, he noted, could defeat a possible shutdown by the Wolf Administration of sports and extracurriculars this fall. “Board members are elected officials. They know their districts better than anyone,” he said. In late July, the PIAA announced its plan to resume fall sports, but without spectators. Gov. Tom Wolf later said he felt it best that school sports ...
