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On Friday, the Pender County School district announced 24 system employees had been quarantined. Heide Trask High School will start with two weeks of remote learning, a last-minute decision prompted by the quarantine and staffing shortages. (Port Ci… — On Friday, the Pender County School district announced 24 system employees had been quarantined. Heide Trask High School will start with two weeks of remote learning, a last-minute decision prompted by the quarantine and staffing shortages. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy Heide Trask High School)

After reports of Trask quarantine, 60 Pender teachers refuse in-class instruction

August 15, 2020 in Port City Daily

PENDER COUNTY — A coalition of about 60 Pender County School teachers sent a letter to the Board of Education on Friday afternoon — less than three days before the start of the fall semester — stating they would not report for in-classroom instruction on Monday out of fears that it would further spread the coronavirus.

The state has tested all 626 inmates at the Pender Correctional Institution for Covid-19. (Port City Daily photo/Mark Darrough)

Pender Correctional tests all inmates after judge ruled conditions in state prisons likely ‘unconstitutional'

July 20, 2020 in Port City Daily

BURGAW — The state tested all 626 inmates at the Pender Correctional Institution in response to a Wake County judge’s ruling that conditions in state prisons during the pandemic were likely unconstitutional, and a subsequent ruling that the state had failed to comply with the initial order to test all inmates.

Staff at the Pender Correctional Institution sit in a van on Thursday wearing face masks and checking the temperatures of employees entering the facility. (Port City Daily photo/Mark Darrough)

Pender slow to announce Covid-19 outbreak in prison near downtown Burgaw

April 25, 2020 in Port City Daily

BURGAW — Pender County waited to announce a small Covid-19 outbreak at the Pender Correctional Institution (PCI), located about a half-mile from Burgaw’s downtown courthouse, 11 days after identifying its first positive test and four days after identifying a second — which, according to the state’s top health official, constitutes an outbreak at that point in a congregate setting.

Portraits of Wilmington residents wearing homemade cloth masks, ski masks, bandanas, N-95 respirators, and surgical masks. (Port City Daily photos)

Faces of Wilmington: Portraits of residents masking up for the Covid-19 crisis

April 12, 2020 in Port City Daily

WILMINGTON — Over the past few weeks, more and more shoppers have been wearing face masks at grocery stores, gas stations, and home improvement stores across Wilmington. Some cited the official recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to wear cloth face masks, freeing up the supply of surgical masks and N-95 respirators for health care workers on the front line of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Of the 41 counties of North Carolina's eastern Coastal Plains region, Pender was the latest to declare a state of emergency. Robeson, two counties to the west, remains the only in the state to not yet declare an emergency in response to the Covid-19… — Of the 41 counties of North Carolina's eastern Coastal Plains region, Pender was the latest to declare a state of emergency. Robeson, two counties to the west, remains the only in the state to not yet declare an emergency in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Graphic courtesy N.C. Department of Public Instruction)

How the timing of Pender County's emergency declaration compares to other counties [Free read]

April 03, 2020 in Port City Daily

EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA --- When Pender County declared a state of emergency at the end of March in response to Governor Roy Cooper's stay-at-home order, it was the second-to-last county in eastern North Carolina --- and one of the last in the state --- to do so.

The past few days, Port City Daily has interviewed residents of Wilmington to better understand how the spread of the coronavirus is impacting their daily lives. Click here to see the full story. (Port City Daily photos/Mark Darrough) — The past few days, Port City Daily has interviewed residents of Wilmington to better understand how the spread of the coronavirus is impacting their daily lives. Click **here** to see the full story. (Port City Daily photos/Mark Darrough)

Faces of Wilmington as the city addresses a rising economic and health crisis [Free read]

March 19, 2020 in Port City Daily

WILMINGTON — As the city addresses a rising economic and health crisis caused by the spread of novel coronavirus cases across the U.S. and North Carolina, every aspect of daily life has been affected.