Elicker: 100% Comply With Vax-Or-Test Mandate
by | Oct 13, 2021 1:17 pm | Comments (7)
It worked.
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Students Roll With Return To Remote
by | Oct 1, 2021 1:59 pm | Comments (3)
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Back home: Monica Johnson helps Rielynn with math worksheet.
During her second week of her first year of high school, Lana Al Mallak was pulled out of her history class and sent home for 10 days. No live classroom instruction. No after-school club meetings.
Lana left the school in tears.
“I understood why, but I just didn’t want to miss my second week of school,” she said.
Pond View Heats Up District Live
by | Sep 30, 2021 7:58 am | Comments (1)
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Pond View.
Holberton School was the place to warm up on a chilly Wednesday night as local rockers Pond View took to the stage for the latest District Arts and Education livestream show.
Pandemic Presents Superintendents With New Challenges
by | Sep 30, 2021 7:54 am | Comments (0)
Running a school district is not as simple as A‑B-C, and with the Delta variant and HVAC issues, it’s going to take collaboration from all sides to make education work.
That was the lesson learned from Fran Rabinowitz, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS), when she came on “The Municipal Voice,” a co-production of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) and WNHH 103.5 FM.
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Edgewood Kindergarteners Head Outdoors
by | Sep 29, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (3)
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“Touching” the wind at Edgewood School Monday.
With arms spread wide, a class of kindergarteners felt a light fall breeze tickle their faces and dance through their hair — in the latest example of in-person learning during the ongoing pandemic.
Vax Campaign Centers Student Athletes
by | Sep 21, 2021 3:06 pm | Comments (2)
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Fredo Delgado in a new vaccine video …
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… and with fellow high school athlete Christian McClease at Tuesday’s presser.
Wilbur Cross High School junior Fredo Delgado looks directly at the camera, a basketball cradled in his left arm. “What’s up. I’m Fredo. Want your life back?” he asks.
He passes the ball to his classmate and teammate Christian McClease, who now holds the answer to that pandemic-era riddle between his two hands. “Get vaccinated,” McClease says. “We did.”
Guv Releases Fine Print For Carrying Out Vax/Test Mandate
by | Sep 20, 2021 1:27 pm | Comments (0)
Officials at schools, health care facilities, and child care centers now have the details about how the state expects them to carry out the mandate that employees either get vaccinated for Covid-19 or qualify for and then comply with the terms of an exemption.
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Smoother Start For 2nd Covid School Year
by | Sep 17, 2021 12:57 pm | Comments (0)
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Parent Marty Edwards at school pick-up: Kids love to wear masks!
Two weeks into the school year, Hamden appears to be rolling with multiple Covid-19 challenges, as families adjust to routines and so far no high-school cases have been reported.
Covid “Virtual Academy” In Works
by | Sep 16, 2021 8:56 pm | Comments (7)
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Eighth and ninth-graders get virtual presentation at Social Justice Summer Camp.
New Haven Public Schools are working on a more structured way to teach quarantining kids this academic year and going forward.
894 City Workers Vax’d; 247 Opt For Testing
by | Sep 15, 2021 3:13 pm | Comments (22)
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City Health Director Maritza Bond (right) gets vax’d last December.
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As reporting deadline passes for mayor’s vax-or-test mandate.
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YNHH: Most “Breakthrough” Cases Not Primarily Covid-Related
by | Sep 9, 2021 1:36 pm | Comments (5)
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Jason Kozikowski gets his shot.
Sometimes “Covid breakthrough” sounds scarier than it really is.
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Guitar Hero Conquers Cafe Nine
by | Sep 9, 2021 6:42 am | Comments (0)
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Posen.
Ariel Posen — acclaimed guitar hero on tour from Canada — had something to say near the beginning of his set at Cafe Nine Wednesday.
“This is equally amazing and equally strange,” he said. “Something you do pretty regularly for kind of forever stops for what feels like forever … then we’re expected to just jump back into it like nothing happened.”
He smiled.
“It wouldn’t feel like it used to if it wasn’t for you guys, so give yourselves a round of applause.”
The packed audience of entirely masked people clapped their hands. At a show at which proof of vaccination was required at the door and wearing a mask was the rule, Posen and the Connecticut-based Joey Wit and the Definition served up two sets of guitar music straight from the heart.
Yale Doc: Covid, Not Vax, Is What’s Dangerous
by | Sep 8, 2021 12:05 pm | Comments (3)
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Shahkim Khalil gets vaccinated on the Green in July.
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Dr. Venkatesh at Tuesday’s Dwight management team meeting.
Asked yet again about whether or not the Covid-19 vaccine causes more harm than good, a Yale emergency medicine doctor pointed to an Iowa hospital inundated with patients.
Those patients are suffering from Covid-19, he said, and not from vaccine side effects.
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4 More Covid Cases ID’d In Schools
by | Sep 3, 2021 4:21 pm | Comments (1)
At least 27 additional people, and probably more, need to quarantine after four more Covid-19 cases have been identified in public schools.
And in a separate incident, a hit-and-run driver sent a security guard to the hospital after striking her at a dismissal line.
3 Covid Cases In Schools Lead To 18 Quarantines
by | Sep 1, 2021 3:42 pm | Comments (0)
Three New Haven students have had Covid-19 cases confirmed in the first two days of the school year.
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After 30 Warnings, City Readies $100 Fines For Mask Defiance
by | Sep 1, 2021 12:59 pm | Comments (18)
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City Building Official Jim Turcio during a Covid code crew inspection last August.
Local bars, restaurants, and other businesses that don’t comply with the city’s indoor mask mandate could face $100 fines — and even mandatory shutdowns — as part of city government’s latest efforts to stem the spread of Covid-19.
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Bond: Nightlife Mask Crackdown Coming
by | Aug 30, 2021 7:13 pm | Comments (35)
Nightclub owners be forewarned: The city’s Covid-19-safety compliance crew may be headed your way, ready to fine owners failing to enforce mask rules.
FAME Starts Fresh
by | Aug 30, 2021 7:12 pm | Comments (1)
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Amor, Jorge, Ana, and mom Luz Almontes at the end of the first day of Family Academy of Multilingual Exploration (FAME).
The former Columbus Family Academy kicked off the school year with a new name, a new principal — and a new fifth-grade scientist, who on his first day absorbed a lesson about ecosystems.
Mayor Issues Vax-Or-Test Mandate
by | Aug 27, 2021 3:02 pm | Comments (28)
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“Disingenuous”? Police union prez Cotto, at right, confronts Elicker after announcement.
All city employees will either have to get a Covid-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing for the coronavirus by the end of September, Mayor Justin Elicker announced Friday.
Lamont Issues Teacher Vax Mandate
by | Aug 19, 2021 3:42 pm | Comments (10)
Declaring that Connecticut is not “Mississippi,” Gov. Ned Lamont Thursday afternoon issued a statewide Covid-19 vaccination mandate for all public and private-school teachers.
Covid Updates: City Gears Up For Vaccine Boosters
by | Aug 18, 2021 4:07 pm | Comments (2)
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People eligible for Covid-19 booster shots can get them free without an appointment at the city’s health department.
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The People Spoke. $90M In Plans Come Next
by | Aug 18, 2021 8:54 am | Comments (23)
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Public updated, weighs in Tuesday night on pandemic-relief plans.
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Give small businesses and homebuyers needed cash. Encourage non-car transportation. Teach kids budgeting, saving, investing. Boost wages to keep up with the cost of living.
City Hall has heard those priorities about how to spend $90 million in federal pandemic relief — and is now crafting plans to convert those goals into action.
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Booker T. Academy Leader Calls On Governor To Mandate Teacher Vaccinations
by | Aug 17, 2021 3:42 pm | Comments (14)
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Booker T. Washington Academy Executive Director John Taylor.
John Taylor is waiting on the governor for some help keeping his teachers and students safe.
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Dalal “Anticipates” Gov’t Vaccine Mandate
by | Aug 11, 2021 1:32 pm | Comments (12)
The Elicker administration is preparing an order requiring city government employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19. It’s just making sure to get the policy right.
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Weekly Testing Planned For Schools Reopening
by | Aug 10, 2021 8:51 am | Comments (2)
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Students and staffers will have the option of getting tested weekly for Covid-19 under an updated school reopening plan.
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