Vaccination clinic successful; Monroe County at 70 COVID deaths
Monroe County hosted its first vaccination clinic for individuals in the 1b group Monday at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Waterloo.
"The clinic went...
Bise ends long career of service
nsider the face of Shelby’s Auto Repair, and Liefer Garage before it, has retired.
Candy Bise’s last day as the service advisor at the Waterloo...
Health care workers lean toward vaccine
As rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine continues, numerous local individuals have had the opportunity to get vaccinated because they work in health care.
But not...
More COVID deaths in Monroe County as vaccine rollout continues
The Monroe County Health Department completed another round of vaccines as more COVID-related death and record hospitalizations were reported.
The latest vaccine shipment – again...
Mayor grateful for support after wife’s death
Waterloo Mayor Tom Smith, still grieving over the Christmas Eve death of this wife to cancer, offered a tearful message of thanks to the...
What to expect in 2021
The question on many people’s minds as we begin 2021 is how much it will resemble years before the novel coronavirus pandemic.
• One key...
Vaccine prep for long-term facilities
As the vaccination of health care workers for COVID-19 continues, residents and employees of long-term care facilities in Monroe County will soon have the...
More deaths as Monroe County receives vaccine
From Monroe County up to the national level, much of the data related to the coronavirus pandemic is pointing in the right direction even...
Vaccines, then and today
Younger readers of this article may not be familiar with polio or smallpox.
The last case of polio to originate in the United States was...
New deaths, more than 300 active COVID cases in Monroe County
After two weeks of rising deaths caused by the novel coronavirus, Monroe County stabilized in that regard over the last week.
There were three more...
Vaccine comes to Monroe County
Monroe County received its first shipment of the novel coronavirus vaccine this week, with the first 100 doses arriving Wednesday.
It began administering the first...
Remembering lives lost to COVID
Gene RiceMaurice SchneiderLeola Schueler
Over 320,000 Americans have died from the novel coronavirus in 2020, a staggering total that cannot describe the incalculable loss felt...