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Celebrating while social distancing

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“If the mountain will not cometo Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain.”

Friend group wants to start having virtual parties

DEAR HARRIETTE: My husband and I like to host parties at our home. Nothing fancy, but we do have people over almost every weekend in the cold-weather months. In the warm-weather months, we host barbecues in our backyard. Our friends do the same, so it always seems like we are at somebody’s house swapping stories and having a good time. We are devastated that we can’t get together now One of my friends suggested that we try creatingvirtualparties. I don’t have the foggiest idea how to do that. Do you have any ideas?

CELEBRATIONS

Saturday

Notes from a COVID-19 hotspot

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) —New Orleans is right outside my door. But I can’t go out. Not much, anyway. My wife and I are self-confined to quarters, working at home and limiting travels to grocery runs and walks with the dogs alongside the St. Charles streetcar tracks.

Muddling through a coronavirus diary

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Forbidden fruit

Make sure to protect yourself and others, too

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These are unpredictable times—we’ve heard this a lot the last couple of mouths.

Edwards asked to extend school closure

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The chance that Lincoln Parish students may have seen their in-person school year end on March 13 is widening after school system superintendents and the state’s education board asked Gov. John Bel Edwards over the past two days to extend his order to close public schools through the end of the academic year.

LHSAA cancels remaining sports seasons

It was a foregone conclusion that the clock was winding down, and on Thursday the final horn sounded.

Local coronavirus cases still going up

For the fifth consecutive day, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Lincoln Parish has increased.

Tech announces graduate school application changes

In response to the ongoing challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Louisiana Tech University’s College of Business announced today that several steps will be taken to accommodate applicants to the Master of Business Administration and Master of Accountancy programs.