Throughout the past few weeks, there has been an influx in COVID-19 cases on Amador’s campus. School officials, the California Department of Public Health, and the Alameda County Public Health Department...

Rows of empty seats and desks greeted Amador teachers and students in classrooms with the return to school on January 11. In response to the recent proliferation of the Omicron variant, attendance rates...

Gavin Newsom has set into motion a plan to make COVID-19 vaccinations a part of the list of required vaccines needed to attend California public schools.  “I think it’s good that the vaccine is...

YouTube banned all anti-vaccine content on their site, and contrary to popular belief, the free speech portion of the First Amendment is not violated. “YouTube is not the government, it is a private...

As of Monday, Sept. 27, all Amador band students are required to take a COVID-19 test in class every Monday after the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) updated their guidelines on playing with...

Pleasanton shop owners remain firm in their support for protection measures, including San Francisco’s recent change to their coronavirus policies. “[Right now] the mask mandate is Alameda County’s,...

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced a new measure that requires all California school teachers and staff to either show proof of vaccination or get tested every week to accommodate in-person...

San Francisco will require proof of full vaccination for residents entering indoor places starting August 20. Being the first major city to place such a mandate, San Francisco, like many other cities...

Last Friday, Pleasanton Unified School District sent an email detailing its plan for the student body to return to in-person instruction during the next school year and its safety precautions as well.  According...

Pet adoption has seen a major boost over the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people have been turning to furry friends for company while, in the meantime, giving cats and dogs a loving home.  Since the COVID-19...

Over one-third of the US population is fully vaccinated. As anyone age 16 and up is eligible to get the COVID vaccine, the vaccine rates are accelerating. But what happens when you are fully vaccinated? Remember,...

In a recent New York Times article, Andrés R. Martínez writes that the world, especially the United States, may need to learn how to live with the virus, as the hope for ‘herd immunity,’ the point...