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According to new rules that the New York State Department of Health quietly issued last week, the list of individuals who qualify for a COVID-19 vaccine has greatly expanded. Until the new rules were put in place, the only individuals who qualified for the vaccine were school faculty and staff and those over the age […]

Idris Elba is a true renaissance man. He’s an award winning actor, musician, activist and filmmaker who has just inked a global, multi-book deal with HarperCollins to publish multiple children’s books that will hit shelves and online retailers in 2022. The main storyline will follow a character through its universe that is currently under development […]

Sources say that former first lady Michelle Obama is organizing a non profit called Pass The Love With Waffles And Mochi. She has teamed up with Partnership For A Healthier America to provide over 1 million meals to families across the nation who are suffering from food insecurity. The campaign will reach its goal by […]

Greece Central School District has now been assisting families affected by the pandemic for a year. Their partnership up with Foodlink gives theme the ability to help families facing food insecurity by providing them with a two week supply of food. Since they started the program last year, they have given out over 10,000 boxes […]

Miami Beach has declared a state of emergency after thousands of spring breakers made their annual pilgrimage to the city’s entertainment district. A curfew is in effect that began yesterday at 8 pm for 72 hours starting yesterday, according to Miami Beach Interim City Manage Raul Aguila. All bars and restaurants have to be closed […]

Three legislative packages are being proposed in Albany for mental health treatment. One would expand who can diagnose patients and connect them to further treatment. Those permissions would include licensed mental health counselors, if the bill is passed. Another would allow practitioners to bill Medicaid directly for services. The third would allow insurers to cover counseling outside […]

In an effort to push the reopening of in-person education, the CDC has deemed it safe enough update the social distancing area from 6 ft to 3 ft for elementary schools and some high schools, as long as they wear a mask. Before they made this adjustment, the rule was that students had to be […]

Officials from the White House have announced that the Biden administration is planning on sending millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Mexico and Canada. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that the US was planning to send approximately 2.5 million doses with Mexico and 1.5 million with Canada, but the numbers aren’t […]

Lollypop farm is using a new tool aimed at reuniting people and their lost pets and it’s called “Lost to Found.” Communications director Ashley Zeh explains: “It’s really meant to help people go through those steps to help them find their pet or reunite a pet they may have found with its family. We know […]

Megan Thee Stallion partnered with apparel retail company Fashion Nova to donate $100,000 to the Breonna Taylor Foundation on the first anniversary of her death. The Grammy winning artist said the core mission of the foundation is to support economic, social and racial justice through police reform. Breonna Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, created the foundation […]