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		<title>Cecil County Schools to Require Masks for Students, Staff to Keep Schools Open Despite High COVID Rates, Low Vaccinations; 2 Politicians Fuel Anti-Mask Furor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) will require students and staff to wear protective masks indoors, and on school buses, when classes resume on 9/1/2021, Schools Superintendent Jeff Lawson announced Wednesday (8/25/2021) in a video posted online. The masking rules are in response to high rates of COVID-19 infections in the county and rising counts of childhood infections. Lawson said the decision was designed to keep the schools open and prevent potential mandatory quarantines that could result in school closings if there were rising positivity rates for COVID-19. “It’s about keeping schools open,” he said. “This has been a constant challenge,” Lawson said of the past year in coping with the ups and downs of the pandemic and requirements to quarantine students after positive tests. CCPS was one of the more “open” school systems in the state during the last academic year, mixing online learning options with gradually increasing in-person classroom teaching with social distancing, masks, and shield options. But infection outbreaks required some shutdowns of in person learning programs. Lawson said the new mask rules would, under state and federal guidelines, permit smaller group quarantines if a student tested positive for COVID and make it less likely that an entire [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Union Hospital Proposes Short Term Drug Detox Center; Could Seek County Subsidy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Union Hospital is considering creation of a non-profit entity in Cecil County to operate an 8 to 12-bed short-term drug detoxification program outside a hospital setting and may ask the county government to subsidize the operation, a hospital official told county leaders on Tuesday. At the same time, the hospital has already created a separate limited liability company in partnership with the Upper Chesapeake Health system in Harford County aimed at creating another operation that would address both drug abuse and mental health problems, since the region lacks adequate mental health professional care. The proposals were outlined in broad terms by Dave Gipson, Union Hospital’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, during a meeting of the county’s Board of Health—which consists of the county executive, the County Council, and the county health officer. County Council members have talked about Union’s plans previously although the hospital had insisted the proposals were still too preliminary to discuss in any detail. [SEE previous CECIL TIMES report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2014/12/union-hospital-considers-short-term-drug-abuser-detox-program-cecil-county-councilors-urge-support/ ] Gipson’s presentation was still short on specifics and he said a firmer concept for a Cecil County operation would likely not be developed until June. He said the hospital was working on developing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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