LCSD board president, attorney leave masks off during school board meeting
At the end of a week that saw a decrease in the number of students and staff who reported testing positive for COVID-19 at Lowndes County School District, Superintendent Sam Allison reported to the school board at Friday’s meeting that he does not believe the virus is spreading through classrooms due to the use of plastic dividers between students and a mask mandate at all the schools.
Small masks, big task: A group of volunteers asks a ‘village’ to come together
Many hands make light work.
The power of that old adage is being summoned as a core of volunteers at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Columbus appeals to the public to help make several thousand cloth masks for little faces.
CPD adopts complaint-based enforcement on mask requirement
A week after Columbus’ mask-wearing mandate went into effect, Assistant Police Chief Doran Johnson told Exchange Club members that the police department is trying its best to enforce the newly-implemented regulations — mostly through responding to business complaints.