The COVID-19 risk level for Danville increased this week, and holiday gatherings and celebrations are expected to bring even more cases in the coming days. Danville is now in the medium level for COVID-19, defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s three-tier system to rank the threat on local communities. At this level, …
The US death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million on Monday, an eleven-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of loved ones and friends staggered by grief and frustration. The confirmed number of dead is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 336 days. It is roughly equal to how many Americans died …
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CASTLE ROCK — Jennifer Engkraf still remembers her excitement when a national nonprofit donated books to the Castle Rock Elementary School she attended in the 1990s. Today, Engkraf is the owner of a Castle Rock bookstore and spearheading local efforts to resurrect the book donations that sparked her love for reading roughly three decades ago. …
I’m old enough to remember when the only TV you could watch was free. Once you bought your set and antenna, the only cost was the electricity to power your set. When cable first became available, there was a running joke that no-one would pay for TV or water. Both are now multibillion-dollar industries. Larry …
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For the Pittsylvania-Danville Health District, a continued drop in daily COVID-19 cases is ushering in a new attitude for the local health department: optimism with only a small dash of caution mixed in. The caution is there because the novel coronavirus certainly knows how to throw curveballs just when health experts think they may have …
Judd Apatow likes to say that comedy is always an experiment. During the covid-19 lockdown, he turned into something of a mad scientist, using the time to produce “The Bubble,” a pandemic-themed feature film; a book of interviews, “Sicker in the Head” (a sequel to an earlier volume); and a documentary about George Carlin, one …
Express News Service The concept of personal space is still an enigma in many Indian families. This is what Sharan Venugopal’s Oru Paathiraa Swapnam Pole explores. “I was always intrigued by the idea of personal space and I believe that every adult should have that space,” asserts the filmmaker. The 37-minute film, which got released …
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