Friday, May 15, 2020
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Volume 15, Number 8
Cardona: Reopening schools ‘a marathon, not a sprint’
CIAC: Spring coaches can work with players
By Matthew Zabierek Record-Journal staff
By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
MERIDEN — If schools reopen later this year, Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona said it won’t be business as usual initially.
CHESHIRE — The CIAC didn’t waste time offering relief to high school coaches who lost the 2020 spring season to the coronavirus pandemic.
See Cardona, A2
Brian Bates and Lauren Marin were married in front of Wallingford Town Hall last week. Since the coronavirus shutdown forced them to postpone their June wedding arrangements, the couple opted to have a small, social distancing wedding on their two-year engagement anniversary. Devin Leith-Yessian, Record-Journal
Couple goes with small, informal wedding By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
WALLINGFORD — It didn’t take a crowd of family and friends to create the memories that will last a lifetime for a local couple married outside Town Hall. "It's not what we planned, but it's going to be a nice memory for sure," said Lauren Marin, who married Brian Bates on
Tuesday morning, May 5 in a celebration whose only guests were those cheering while walking or driving by. Blessed with a sunny, warm morning and flowers in full bloom around them, the couple held a short, intimate ceremony before making plans on how to spend the rest of their wedding day, which happened to be CinSee Wedding, A11
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Coming out of a Thursday, May 7 meeting, its last of the 2019-20 school year, the CIAC Board of Control announced it would ease, for one year only, out-of-season coaching rules. The waiver applies only to spring coaches. Through the rest of May, coaches can continue meeting online with their players, as many have been doing throughout the spring, offering instruction, drills, conditioning tips and the like. Coaches can continue doing such “virtual” online coaching from June 1 through Aug. 17, which is when football conditioning is scheduled to start. See CIAC, A15
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“We still have many phases to go to get to where we want to be, and I just want families to keep in mind that it’s not going to be the same school opening as it was last year,” Cardona told Cardona the Record-Journal during an interview on Facebook Live Friday afternoon, May 8. “There are going to be different things in place to protect you, to protect your children, to protect our teachers and our staff ... understand that it might be staggered schedules, it might be two days on, two days off. It could be that we have students attending some days and other students attending different days … It will more than likely be (a combina-
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