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Volume 20, Number 32
Thursday, August 12, 2021
‘We can do this in a safe manner’ Fall high school season remains on course to start on time and run in full By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
A worker with Rafferty Fine Grating uses a milling machine to remove pavement during a repaving project on Route 10 in Plainville Thursday, Aug. 5. Work started Aug. 1 and will continue overnight until the end of the month. Devin Leith-Yessian, Record-Journal
Rte. 10 project begins
Connecticut’s positivity rate has risen. And Gov. Ned Lamont and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are advising people, even if August 12-14 for football they are vaccinated, to team activites. Aug. 21 for again wear masks inthe start of football prac- doors. tice. Aug. 26 for the other fall sports. See CIAC, A13
COVID hospitalizations in state back above 200 Associated Press
By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
SOUTHINGTON — Repaving of a section of Queen Street along the Plainville border is underway and overnight work is expected to continue through the end of the month.
CHESHIRE — The calendar has flipped to August and dates are flashing along the Connecticut high school sports horizon like so many lighthouses.
Also flashing: the increase in COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant.
Construction signs frame a motorist traveling south on Queen Street near River Street in Southington on Aug. 5. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
See Construction, A9
Connecticut health officials reported Monday the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state has risen above 200 for the first time since early May. Metrics released by Gov. Ned Lamont’s office showed coronavirus-related hospitalizations
rose by 34 patients over the weekend, putting the total at 208. That is the highest number of people reported hospitalized in Connecticut since May 12, when the total was 222. The governor’s office said 1,287 more people tested See Hospitalizations, A2
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