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WBFO Brief Sept. 8, 2021

And Ontario health care and education officials --- like many in the US—are starting the third school year touched by COVID-19. Reporter Dan Karpenchuk has a familiar story of masks, vaccines, and some remote learning.

In today’s WBFO Brief, comedian Paula Poundstone from NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”. WBFO’s Jay Moran talks with her and takes a look inside Babeville, the performance space in Buffalo that she is returning to after the pandemic.

Also, the NWHL, the league that includes the Buffalo Beauts, is changing their name, dropping the word “Women” “We don’t talk about the NHL as the national ‘Men's hockey league….,’ says hockey writer Melissa Burgess.

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