It’s been an eventful first year for Dr. Kevin Whitaker as Jamestown Public Schools superintendent. Whitaker took the reins of the Jamestown Public Schools District in June 2020 at the height of a COVID-19 pandemic that made it more difficult to manage both a school district’s ...
Jamestown Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kevin Whitaker announced via YouTube on Friday that the district will open with in-person learning this fall. However, students and staff will be required to wear masks indoors. “As you know, we faced some challenges as we awaited the New York State Department of Health guidance that would come out to tell us what we were allowed to do and not to do in our schools,” Whitaker said. “They said that guidance would come out very shortly in at the end of the particular week they announced it. At the end of that week, it was announced that ...
ALBANY (AP) — For two years, New York temporarily set aside its usual time limit on civil lawsuits in order to allow victims of childhood sexual abuse to sue churches, hospitals, schools, camps, scout groups and other institutions and people they hold responsible for enabling pedophiles or ...
For consecutive days, Chautauqua County has recorded more than 20 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. The county Health Department on Friday noted 23 new cases, a day after it saw 21 come in a day earlier. Since Aug. 1, there have been 162 new confirmed cases of the virus, with health officials noting that the highly contagious Delta variant is within the community. Of the new cases, 16 are located in the Jamestown zip code and one each in Fredonia, Falconer, Frewsburg, Gerry, Portland, Ripley and Westfield. There are currently 109 active cases, an increase of 12 from Thursday’s ...
FALCONER — Falconer Central Schools will open for students on Tuesday, Sept. 7, with a full day of school for students in third through 12th grades. Students in kindergarten through second grades will have half-days on Tuesday, Sept. 7, and Wednesday, Sept. 8, with a noon dismissal time. Teachers and teaching assistants will report Sept. 1-3, and all staff will report on Friday, Sept. 3, for a day of orientation and preparation. All students in UPK, kindergarten, first and second grades will be attending Temple Elementary School. Temple’s student hours are from 8:35 a.m. until ...
As federal regulators and drug makers work on a COVID-19 vaccine for children, a state legislator wants to be ready to widely administer that vaccine. S.7320 would not require a COVID-19 vaccination for children. It is similar to a bill (S.8182A/A.10508A) passed in 2020 allowing pharmacists to administer an FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine to adults. “Pharmacist-administered vaccinations have been a key component of New York’s vaccine distribution plan, particularly in neighborhoods and parts of the state where pharmacies are a primary health care option,” wrote Sen. Brad Hoylman, ...
