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Richland School District One board votes to require masks in all schools

ABC Columbia Staff,

COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) – All students and staff in Richland School District One will be required to wear masks in all schools, administrative buildings, and school buses. The Richland One Board of School Commissioners made the decision at a meeting Monday evening. According to district officials there are currently eight cases of COVID-19 within the district and 110 students and…
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State Senators request a special session on mask mandates

The Bi-Partisan group want members to return to reconsider a budget provisio to reverse mask madate requirements
ABC Columbia Staff,

Columbia, SC (WOLO) — A group of South Carolina Senators want lawmakers to come back to the statehouse for a special session to reconsider a budget proviso that aims to keep school districts from being able to put mask requirements in effect in state schools. Senators Brad Hutto (D-Orangeburg), Ronnie Sabb (D-Williamsburg), Luke Rankin (R-Horry), and Sandy Senn (R-Charleston) joined…

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Area drug manufacturer to require employees to get vaccinated, fired

Nephron Pharmaceuticals want all of their 2,500 employees vaccinated by 8/27
Associated Press,

Image: Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation LOGO West Columbia, SC (Associated Press) — -A South Carolina pharmaceutical company that has offered covid-19 vaccines since February — will now require all of its own employees to get the shot. Nephron Pharmaceuticals made the announcement Monday that it will require all of its more than 2-thousand workers to be fully vaccinated — or have…
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Councilmen have friendly competition for back to school supplies

Councilmen Derrek Pugh, Ed McDowell ask fpr donations to see who can collect the most
ABC Columbia Staff,

Richland Co., SC (WOLO) — Children here in the Midlands will head back to class in the coming weeks, if they haven’t already. While parents and guardians have a list of supplies they want to make sure their children have for the upcoming school year, some area councilman are joining in on the rush to fill backpacks with “Competition for…