The Fresh Connect program was created for families to be able to use food as medicine. It will also help families get more access to fruits and vegetables, fighting health concerns and hunger.
Community Advocates works with county to support six nonprofit organizations.
AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) -- Amarillo College announced that the National Rural Health Association recently named the Rural Nursing Education Consortium as the 2024 winner of its Outstanding Rural Health Program after the program was created in 2019 to assist in providing homegrown nurses to Consortium hospitals throughout the Texas Panhandle. According to AC, RNEC was []
A date will be set at the next county board meeting
LEHIGH COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) and the Lehigh County Chiefs of Police Association are teaming up to launch a Blue Envelope Program to help special-needs drivers and law enforcement better communicate when they interact. The free program is aimed at drivers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and can also apply []
HEMLOCK TOWNSHIP, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — PennDOT announced Friday that a multi-year reconstruction project will continue on Interstate 80 (I-80) eastbound, just west of the Montour County line and the Route 42 interchange in Hemlock Township, Columbia County, from mile markers 228 through 233. According to PennDOT on Friday, April 26, the prime contractor of []
WILKES-BARRE LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Important after-school programs are in danger of losing funding impacting hundreds of students in northeastern Pennsylvania. On Thursday, lawmakers and community advocates joined together to voice their concerns and opposition to that decision. "This is terrible news for the students that really need these afterschool programs. It's terrible news for their []
On Earth Day, Honolulu officials rode the city’s driverless, all-electric Skyline trains to not only tout the benefits of mass transit but laud current and future sustainable projects along the West Oahu line.
STEUBEN COUNTY, N.Y. (WETM) – Steuben County will be receiving a new grant for Head Start and early Head Start programs from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as announced by Congressman Nick Langworthy this afternoon. The grant, totaling $5,190,112 will be used for programs facilitated by Pro Action of Steuben and Yates []
By Katie Thoresen, WXPR ONEIDA COUNTY – The Public Service Commission projects there are more than 12,600 homes in Oneida County where there’s a poor internet connection or none at all. That’s roughly 40% of the county population. There are multiple projects in the works to get broadband or better broadband to more people. A project spearheaded by Oneida County will install six-towers and nearly 300 miles of fiber. Bug Tussel signed with Oneida County to guarantee $24 million in bonds for the...
$2.5 million project includes more than a dozen planned improvements to the park.
It’s been 11 months of anguish since Patricia Arde’s 86-year-old father wandered off and vanished in Kapolei near Home Depot and Costco.