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U.S.—After several embarrassing and widely divergent revisions to the coronavirus projections of infection, hospitalization, and death rate used by government officials around the world to justify shutting down the global economy, experts at John Hopkins have now deployed a state-of-the-art super-scientific computer model and have now determined that between 0 and 12.6 billion people will contract the disease and be completely dead by summer.
Read more04/28/2020 Covid-19 11:30 am Update from Coal County Emergency Management:
Read morePake McEntire’s legendary 100-year-old table that has been a favorite gathering spot for a group of dedicated — if not addicted — Oh Hell card game players over the past couple of months. The ‘regulars’ include, from left, Carl McEntire, Johnny D. Ward, Debbie Ward, Pake McEntire, and Tommie James (behind the camera).
Read moreTwenty years ago a close friend from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, showed me a card game called Oh Hell. When I came back home I showed it to some close friends, and Mama Jackie McEntire was the first one to get addicted to it.
Read moreCoalgate’s Annual Cleanup Day scheduled for Saturday, May 2, has been cancelled.
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted daily life around the world. In addition to temporarily closing many businesses and schools in Coal County, it has also halted field work to complete the 2020 United States Census. However, progress is still being made by phone and online.
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