“I don’t think COVID’s going to be able to stop us from jumping up and down, and fist bumping,” he said. “You’re going to see a lot of happy people no matter what, once we get this thing on the surface safely.” ___ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

Some updates on local cases include Floyd Smith, who has a trial readiness hearing set for February 12th and a jury trial set for March 16th. Smith faces charges for stabbing a Lafayette man in the neck and killing him in March 2020. Joseph Wilkerson is serving 57 years for also participating in the crime.

Otherwise, he’s left organizing a few online performances from Daryl’s House a club owned by Daryl Hall of Hall Oates in Pawling, New York.”There is some hope, and some light at the end of the tunnel,” Sanders said.Not every theater or performance space sees a path back to normal.Last weekend, the nonprofit Bing Arts Center in Springfield announced that it wouldn’t reopen and that it had put the 71 year old former movie theater up for sale at an asking price of $175,000.The closed Bing Arts Center at 716 Sumner Ave. In Springfield is for sale. (Don Treeger / The Republican)And in a high profile move, the owners of Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, Vitek Kruta and Lori Divine, announced in December that they cannot foresee reopening due to the financial pressures .

Photograph: Chris Putnam/REX/ShutterstockPlans for harsher Scottish quarantine system in chaos after SNP fail to book extra hotel roomsPlans for Scotland to impose its own supervised quarantine regime are in chaos after it emerged that no extra hotel rooms have been secured to accommodate travellers caught by a stricter system. Jeane Freeman, the SNP health secretary, could not say whether a single room had been secured by the Scottish Government on Sunday, despite insisting that a blanket requirement on all international arrivals to isolate under state supervision will be brought in early next week. The UK Government has said a requirement to isolate for 10 nights in hotels will apply only to those arriving from 33 “red list” countries, and has begun securing enough rooms to accommodate them.

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