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County health department goes live with wait list

Henderson County News

A public hospital and public health system strain under vaccine demand

In a windowless room on the ground floor of Pardee Hospital, 10 people are speaking into headsets as they type information into the Covid Vaccine Management System.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Health Department to return some voicemail messages and offer vaccine

The Henderson County Health Department plans to call some of the people who left voice mail messages last Wednesday and offer them Covid-19 vaccine appointments. The call center will not be open for incoming calls today. And the health department only has enough vaccine doses this week to reach around 14 percent of the number of people who left messages.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

State expands Covid vaccine dashboard

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has expanded its vaccine data dashboard to provide information about vaccine doses promised to and received by the state.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Students return to class in person next week

Henderson County public school students will return to in-classroom teaching next week, with pre-K through grade 3 attending school five days a week and grades 4-12 resuming the alternate-day Plan B, the School Board decided Monday.   Read Story »

Hendersonville News

City, School Board near agreement on park swap

The Henderson County school system would improve the historic Berkeley Mills stadium for use by Hendersonville High School and add a softball field and tennis courts for Bearcat athletics on the property and the city would get ownership of Edwards Park under a land swap agreement the City Council will take up on Wednesday.   Read Story »

North Carolina News

Bailout of reckless spenders would punish N.C.

RALEIGH — Now that Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress (however narrowly), they will probably approve a new round of federal borrowing to bail out state and local governments with shaky finances.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

LOCAL BRIEFS: Citizenship winners, Pardee's top docs, Flying Squirrel Challenge

The Abraham Kuykendall Daughters of the American Revolution recognized three young ladies who exemplify the qualities of a good citizen:  dependability, service, leadership and patriotism.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

DHHS reports first U.K. strain of Covid

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported the first case of a North Carolina resident infected with the so-called U.K. variant of Covid-1.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Ruling revives lawsuit over toddler’s death

A lawsuit by the parents of a toddler accidentally shot to death while in the care of an unlicensed daycare home has been revived by a state Supreme Court ruling.   Read Story »

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