As of last Friday, McHenry County had only about 5 percent of medical/surgical beds available, according to numbers tracked by the Department of Health. Intensive care units reported about 73 percent of beds were full. That won’t surprise anyone following the resurgence of COVID-19 through its Delta variant. New cases reported in The Independent’s weekly […]
By JERRY NOWICKICapitol News Illinoisjnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – The statewide mask mandate indoors is back, and educators and health care professionals will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday amid an ongoing surge in the pandemic that first arrived in Illinois in March 2020. Beginning Monday, people will be required to […]
Students are back in school – “in” being the key word. Unlike last August when all students in Woodstock School District 200 started the school year with remote learning from home, teachers last week welcomed their students into classrooms, along with the typical protocols of the COVID-19 era: masks, social distancing, frequent hand washing, etc. […]
In a two-hour special meeting that became moot in less than 24 hours, the Board of Education last week established a mandatory mask policy to start the academic year in Woodstock School District 200. The next day, Aug. 4, Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered Illinois’ public and private schools to require students and staff, vaccinated or […]
In a 6-1 vote at the end of a special meeting, the Board of Education Tuesday night established a mandatory mask policy to start the academic year in Woodstock School District 200. Unlike last week, when only one person supported the mask policy among more than two dozen speakers, eight people Tuesday urged the board […]
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