The Lincoln Parish School District entered its first day of optional masking for the school year with some of its lowest COVID numbers recorded thus far.
As Louisiana’s statewide mask mandate ended Wednesday, local policymakers made decisions on their own requirements, with most opting to make face coverings optional.
Like the local public school district, Lincoln Preparatory School will not be adopting the state’s new “parent choice” model for quarantining students exposed to COVID-19.
Lincoln Parish residents who get the COVID-19 vaccine at Louisiana Tech University or Grambling State University, including non-students, will now receive $100 after their first shot.
About 60% of Lincoln Parish Detention Center inmates have refused the COVID-19 vaccine, while only four have tested positive for the respiratory virus, Warden Jim Tuten told members of the jail’s g
