{"id":231212,"date":"2021-08-02T10:16:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=231212"},"modified":"2021-08-02T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T22:48:18","slug":"new-mask-mandate-not-be-considered-in-jmst-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=231212","title":{"rendered":"New mask mandate not considered in Jmst., now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Mayor, Dwaine Heinrich says, at this time the city is not considering re-implementing a mask mandate, in light of the spread of the Corona Virus, and the highly contagious Delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, he said, discussion on a mask mandate, is \u201ccounter productive,\u201d at this time.\u00a0 He added that the community is , &#8220;not there yet,\u201d in any possible mask mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Heinrich reiterated that while safety practices such as testing, isolating, masking and social distancing have worked to slow the spread of the virus, and continue to be important, vaccines are the best defense against COVID-19 and the variants.\u00a0 He strongly encourages\u00a0 all who have not be vaccinated to do so as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>On another topic\u00a0 with the Road Diet project, Mayor Heinrich said some changes are to be made in the area of the Hansen Arts Park.\u00a0 He said the First Avenue portion of the project is expected to be completed this month, and the balance over to the tennis courts by the end of September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Jamestown Mayor, Dwaine Heinrich says, at this time the city is not considering re-implementing a mask mandate, in light of the spread of the Corona Virus, and the highly contagious Delta variant. On Monday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, he said, discussion on a mask mandate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231212"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231259,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231212\/revisions\/231259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}