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Jersey Shore student athletes to undergo virus screenings

JERSEY SHORE — All participants in middle and high school extracurricular activities will have to undergo a COVID-19 screening prior to any practice, event or team meeting under recommendations approved by the Jersey Shore Area School Board. Meeting via a hybrid of livestream and in-person Monday night, the board noted that the recommendations were formulated from guidelines issued by various entities. “There were guidelines sent out by the National Federation of High Schools. Then schools put together their own from those guidelines, incorporating Gov. Wolf’s guidelines and ...

School district receives $682K in federal, state COVID-19 relief funding

JERSEY SHORE — Two grants totaling just over $682,000 were approved for use by the Jersey Shore Area School Board to help the district deal with issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The vote came during the board’s meeting Monday night held both in person and livestreamed on YouTube, with two board members attending remotely. One grant, $399,044 was part of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security or CARES Act. The ESSER grants provide school districts with emergency relief funds to address the ...

Coronavirus, other factors result in billions paid for unemployment

The state has paid out $18 billion in unemployment claims since March 15. “That’s 18 with a B,” said Jerry Oleksiak, secretary of the Department of Labor and Industry in a conference call with reporters Monday. Some 90 percent of the claimants who filed between March 15 and May 16 have ...

Municipal governments eye return to ‘normal’

As the COVID-19 pandemic brought about social distancing restrictions, local governments across the country were forced to hold their public meetings virtually for the first time on a regular basis. Now that many states have eased those restrictions, municipalities are easing back into the process, slowly opening their gatherings for the public to attend. “Starting in July, our plan is to host our board meetings in person again,” said Anne Gentry, executive director of the Alpena Downtown Development Authority in Alpena, Michigan. Pennsylvania The City of Washington held its last ...

Fauci hopeful for a vaccine by late 2020, early 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's top infectious disease expert said Tuesday he is cautiously optimistic that there will be a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year or early 2021, and warned that the next few weeks will be critical to tamping down coronavirus hot spots around the ...

12th annual Ray of Light awards ceremony held at CTL, livestreamed

The 12th annual Ray of Light ceremony looked a lot different this year with an indoor red carpet at the Community Theatre League on West Third Street, recorded performances and a much smaller audience, according to Executive Director Seth Sponhouse. These changes, alongside others, were made ...