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NANTICOKE — The Greater Nanticoke Area School Board voted Thursday to ask member Matthew Landmesser to resign from the board.

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Jul. 16—NANTICOKE — At a brief meeting Thursday the Greater Nanticoke Area School Board passed a school safety plan that — for now — would still require elementary students to wear masks, approved a one-year Act 93 agreement that gives 14 employees a 2% raise, and for the second consecutive month officially asked long-absent board Member Matthew Landmesser to resign.

Noting the safety plan is “ever changing” but also necessary to qualify for a $7.3 million federal COVID-19 grant, Superintendent Ron Grevera said the plan is to start school Sept. 7 “as close to normal as possible. Nobody is more excited about that than this guy.”

Grevera said most staff and many of the students 12 and over have been vaccinated, with another student vaccination clinic being set up for August. Which means the Education Center and High School are expected to open with no mask requirements, and lunches returning to the cafeteria for all students — elementary students had been eating in their rooms at their desks during the peak of the pandemic. The district still intends to try to maintain three feet of social distance, the current recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But students in the elementary school will still be wearing masks under current guidance, he said, though that could change either with new guidance from the CDC or state, or with approval of a vaccine for younger children.

The Act 93 agreement covers non-union employees, primarily administrators and staff other than the superintendent. The board unanimously approved the agreement, a sharp contrast to the June meeting where the eight members present split evenly on the motion to approve,

Landmesser was the lone missing member at that meeting, making the tie possible with eight members instead of nine. At that meeting, the board also voted to ask Landmesser…

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Headlines July 13, 2021

Here are some of the top stories we’re following for Tuesday, July 13, 2021.

Damian Giletto, Wochit

He helped bring hope to those in Delaware in need of medical care. 

Dr. Jose Castro Pamintuan, who died last month, leaves a legacy in which he provided new health care opportunities to the people of Kent and Sussex counties, including co-founding Dover’s Hope Medical Clinic. 

“Dr. Pamintuan was one of the primary care volunteer physicians at the Hope Clinic for over 10 years,” said Dr. Vicenta P. G. Marquez, a co-founder of the Hope Medical Clinic. “He was very kind, compassionate and an excellent clinician.”

Though Pamintuan was a cardiologist by training, Marquez said he was a general practitioner at Hope because of their clientele.

“He treated all patients the same way as if they were his private patients,” she said. “Also, he genuinely catered to each patient trying to understand the whole patient – soul, mind and body.”

Born in the Philippines to a school teacher and homemaker, both of whom were also farmers, Pamintuan excelled at San Fernando High School where his obituary said he earned a seat at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. 

After receiving his medical degree in 1961, he traveled to the United States to further his education, completing a postdoctoral fellowship in…

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