Internet provider expands its reach
Lamont shuts down youth & recreational sports Record-Journal staff
By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
A new internet service provider said overwhelming interest from local residents caused the company to double the miles of fiber optic cable it is stringing in Southington. GoNetspeed, a Pennsylvania-based company, had planned 52 miles of fiber optic lines for its first step in town. Earlier this month, the company announced it will build more than 100 miles of Dan Denmark, an employee of Rocky Mountain Fiber fiber optic lines. See Internet, A2
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Volume 15, Number 36
Plus, strings fiber optic support wire on Maplewood Road in Southington. Eric Cotton, Record-Journal
HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont announced last Thursday that he is prohibiting all youth and recreational sports from being played in Connecticut until at least Jan. 19 due to the increasing rise in COVID-19 cases. The move comes two days after the CIAC announced it was delaying the start of the 2020-21 high school winter season, also until Jan. 19 at the earliest. The CIAC also cited rising numbers in COVID-19 cases and schools falling back to distance learning in making its decision.
Lamont’s decree went into effect on Monday, Nov. 23. It does not apply to pro or college sports. Earlier this month, Lamont had prohibited high-risk sports, such as wrestling and 11-on-11 tackle football, from being played for the rest of the year. He allowed moderate-risk youth sports — basketball and ice hockey among them — to be played so long as athletes wore masks, though hockey teams were barred from playing opponents from out of state, a move Lamont made in conjunction with governors in the region. See Sports, A2
The election’s over, but not the fighting By Nadya Korytnikova Special to The Citizen
The morning of the Nov. 3 election, the United States Postal Service disclosed that more than 300,000 mailin ballots nationwide had not been scanned.
Many on social media were rightfully alarmed by this news, believing it meant the ballots had gone missing. But did they?
“The assumption that there are unaccounted ballots within the Postal Service network is inaccurate,” the
USPS said in a press release. “These ballots were delivered in advance of the election deadlines. We employed extraordinary measures to deliver ballots directly to local boards of elections. When this occurs, by design, these ballots bypass
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certain processing operations and do not receive a final scan. Instead, they are expedited directly to the boards of elections.” Rumors regarding mail-in ballots have swirled since that voting option See Election, A3