Tag: Covid-19

Citing “one day blood supply” and “critically low levels”, I.E. residents urged to donate blood

INLAND EMPIRE, Calif. — Citing the ongoing, nearly year-long COVID-19 related pandemic and public health crisis, LifeStream Blood Bank of San Bernardino says they have reached “critically low levels” of blood supply, putting cancer and surgical patients; accident victims, and newborn babies at risk of procedures being canceled due to lack of blood. “The situation is extremely serious,” Rick Axelrod, MD, LifeStream’s […]

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Lab24 in Redding announces free holiday COVID-19 testing

REDDING, Calif. — With Christmas and the new year fast approaching and the ongoing, months-long COVID-19 public health crisis and pandemic on the forefront of people’s thoughts and concerns, Lab24 in Redding has announced free holiday COVID-19 testing for all North State region families and businesses. Lab24, a fully licensed and accredited reference laboratory headquartered in Redding, is a premier […]

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COVID-19 concern rising after third positive test at Burney Elementary

BURNEY, Calif. — Burney Elementary School Principal Marcy Schmidt yesterday confirmed that three students have now tested positive for COVID-19 and have been sent home to quarantine. Additionally, about 100 – nearly one-third of the school’s 359 enrolled students – who may have come into contact with those who tested positive have also been sent home to quarantine as a […]

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We “will not be blackmailed, bullied, or used as muscle,” RivCo Sheriff says of Governor’s mandates

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — In a move joining other California law enforcement agencies across the state, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco yesterday announced his deputies would not be enforcing California Governor Gavin Newsom’s recently updated stay-at-home orders, curfews, and other mandates regarding the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis and pandemic. Calling the Governor’s orders “hypocritical”, “dictatorial”, and “flat out ridiculous”, […]

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RivCo training academy closes after recruits test positive for COVID-19

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — In the wake of several recruits testing positive for COVID-19, the Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center, which offers comprehensive law enforcement, fire, and correctional custody public safety training for law enforcement and fire agencies throughout California, recently announced that the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department had temporarily suspended their academy training program. Although officials have made no […]

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Afterschool Learning Provider, Think Together supports RivCo school districts with distance learning

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and public health crisis nearing its ninth month and no end in sight to the current lockdown and social distancing mandates, school districts throughout California and the nation are continuing to adjust and being forced to come up with innovative ways to serve the students within their districts. One such program […]

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ShasCo Sheriff, Redding PD Chief say they “will not be enforcing” recent COVID-19 mandates

SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — In response to the latest COVID-19 public health crisis related mandates announced by California Governor Gavin Newsom last week, both Shasta County Sheriff Eric Magrini and City of Redding Police Chief Bill Schueller have announced that their departments – the two largest law enforcement agencies based within Shasta County – will not be enforcing any of the […]

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WVHS students create online social events as Covid-19 pandemic continues

HEMET, Calif. — With online learning officially underway throughout the Hemet Unified School District and students, families, and staff becoming more familiar with it due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and public health crisis, Hemet Valley High School students have been getting their online education schedules down and are learning to navigate through “synchronous and asynchronous learning,” says HUSD spokesperson Alexandrea […]

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HUSD outlines ways it is ensuring Wi-Fi and Internet access for online learning

HEMET, Calif. — With the Covid-19 pandemic and public health crisis heading into its six month and school-aged children beginning a whole new way of online learning, schools across the nation have been scrambling to find new and innovative ways to provide quality, Internet-based educational access to their students. As schools slowly continue to re-open with never before addressed restrictions […]

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Covid-19 coughing “chronic offender” sentenced to year in jail

ANDERSON, Calif. — A woman accused of walking around an Anderson Safeway “forcefully and purposefully” coughing on employees and shoppers during the COVID-19 pandemic was sentenced last week after pleading guilty to numerous misdemeanor charges related to five of the pending cases against her. The woman, Tammy Ann Baldwin, 61, of Anderson, was identified as a chronic offender by the […]

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