Thousands of Fresno Unified School District students will get an invitation this month to attend Summer Academy online classes that will focus on math, literacy, class credit recovery, and other academic needs. The district also will offer enrichment programs through its new Summer Camp, which will be open to Summer...
COVID Analysis: Shopping, Outdoors Safe; Mass Transit, Restaurants Risky
As few as 1,000 SARS-CoV2 viral particles are needed for a COVID-19 infection to take hold. That's based on the MERS and SARS outbreaks. A single breath releases 50 to 5,000 droplets. If a person coughs or sneezes, 200,000,000 viral particles go everywhere. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Erin Bromage searched...
Fresno County Needs Contact Tracers, Isn’t Waiting for Newsom
Call, text, email, and repeat. Call, text, email, and repeat again. The job of a COVID-19 contact tracer, or what Gov. Newsom calls a "disease detective," isn't glamorous. But the job is so important that Fresno County must come up with 250 or more contact tracers to reopen the economy...
Sen. Borgeas Wants COVID-19 Legal Immunity for Businesses
Restaurants and other businesses on the verge of reopening face legal uncertainty from COVID-19 after they open their doors. State Sen. Andreas Borgeas (R-Fresno) says the threat of coronavirus lawsuits against businesses is real and wants to stop them before they start. The annual state budgeting that starts next week...
City Warns of ‘Criminal Prosecution’ for Defying COVID Orders. Restaurant Owner Faults Mayor.
Dave Fansler hoped to reopen Pismo's Coastal Grill on Thursday. While the popular seafood restaurant wouldn't be packed — Fansler said seating would be restricted to 38% in the name of physical distancing — it would help the restaurateur get his business reopened. Fansler scrapped those plans when he received...
Customers Pay $1,000 Fine Levied by City After Fresno Restaurant Reopens
Bacon sizzled. Eggs were cracked. Customers filled up the parking lot and tables of a northwest Fresno restaurant Friday morning. The 'Waffle Shop' is back open for breakfast. The customers' cacophony was a throwback to before the pandemic began sweeping across the globe. But there were still reminders of the phantom...
Clovis CC’s Top Scholar-Athletes Recognized in Virtual Celebration
There was no Kiwanis Torch of Excellence Dinner this year to honor the area's top community college scholar-athletes, an annual event since 1997, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Clovis Community College wanted to make sure that their hard work did not go unrecognized. Five of the college's 39 honorees...
FUSD Trustee: ‘Bare Minimum’ of Distance Learning Isn’t Enough
Fresno Unified trustee Claudia Cazares says teachers who have been doing the "bare minimum" as negotiated in the distance learning contract amendment need to do more teaching for their students. "Students are not being taught. They're being given a list of homework scheduled for the week, and then there is...
Fresno Did It! Give Help Now Raises $1 Million for Charities.
On the National Day of Prayer, Fresno Mayor-elect Jerry Dyer expressed thanks Thursday to his Creator after announcing that $1 million was raised for 20 local charities through the Give Help Now campaign. Listen to this article: Dyer, who led the effort, said he hopes the funds from the month-long...
Newsom’s Order Protects All Workers. Can Employers Afford It?
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a controversial executive order Wednesday triggering applause from labor and fears from employers that it will bury them in sky-high workers' compensation costs. “We want to keep workers healthy and we want to keep them safe,” Newsom said Wednesday at his daily briefing. “The worst thing...