Bartlett Regional Hospital employees will soon be required to get vaccinated against COVID-19, despite concerns from a union and the hospital CEO.
Jeremy Hsieh
Local News Reporter, KTOO
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Juneau residents weigh in on permanent shift to vote-by-mail
If the proposal goes through, election workers expect to be able to process ballots in a warehouse along Thane Road beginning in 2022.
Juneau faces biggest COVID surge yet, and contact tracers can’t keep up
Juneau Deputy City Manager Robert Barr said Juneau was seeing case numbers twice as high as during the peak of last November’s wave.
Up to $3,600 available to Tlingit and Haida members, Goldbelt shareholders
Tlingit and Haida’s program is funded by the American Rescue Plan Act. Goldbelt’s funding comes from last year’s CARES Act.
Locals praise and admonish Juneau Assembly before it extends COVID measures
It wasn’t discussed much during the meeting, but a defined end point and the idea of letting personal choices prevail are in the latest version of the city’s framework.
Juneau requires masks again as COVID-19 cases rise
The main change that goes with that is a requirement for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, to wear masks in indoor public settings, and outdoors when people can’t keep 6 feet apart.