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Volume 16, Number 3
Friday, January 15, 2021
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
State gives green light for CIAC winter season
By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
The go-ahead came through updated recommendations issued by the Connecticut Department of Public CHESHIRE — The winter scholastic Health to the CIAC, as well as by sports season was delayed, but Gov. Ned Lamont, who said during it looks like it won’t be denied. his Monday COVID-19 news briefing that youth sports, suspended along The state on Monday gave the green with high school sports since midlight for low- and moderate-risk high November, could also resume on school sports to begin practices on Jan. 19. Jan. 19 and games on Feb. 1.
“We’re about a week away from allowing practices to begin for all those moderate-risk sports,” the governor said. All that remains on the high school front is for the CIAC Board of Control to give the final approval. The Board was to meet Jan. 14 and was expected to make a decision that morning.
There’s synchronicity to the Jan. 19 start date. Most school districts that have been in all-remote learning will resume in-person classes that day, which will provide a two-week quarantine window coming out of the holiday break. See CIAC, A3
Yaccarino heads back to work
SIEGE OF THE U.S. CAPITOL
State and local leaders say they were appalled by the events
On the north steps of the Capitol in Hartford on Jan. 6, state Rep. Dave Yaccarino (R-87) joined 150 legislators in the House of Representatives in being sworn in, taking the oath of office Yaccarino in an outdoor ceremony.
State and local leaders condemned and lamented the mob violence at the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, Jan. 6. The Twitter account representing state senate GOP members called the civil disruption “unacceptable in any circumstance as were all of the violent protests we have seen over the last six months.” “Violence is never the answer. What we see unfolding today in Washington Protesters move in on U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate D.C. is putting a black eye on our par-
Yaccarino indicated that fixing the state’s ailing budget,
chamber at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 6.
See Capitol, A2
See Yaccarino, A2
Manuel Balce Ceneta, Associated Press
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