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COVID IN CONNECTICUT
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125 new cases reported in town
Marines from the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center in Plainville teamed with the Hardware City Detachment Marine Corps League and the Plainville Wind Ensemble on a successful Toys for Tots collection Nov. 15 at Plainville High School. The toys will be distributed to local children in need. Last Christmas, the Marines’ Toys for Tots program pulled in 41,499 toys for Connecticut youngsters.
Overnight parking ban is in effect Plainville’s overnight parking ban went into effect Tuesday, Dec. 1. The ordinance states that it shall be unlawful from Dec. 1 to April 1 for the owner or operator of a motor vehicle to allow such vehicle to stand on any street in the Town of Plainville for more than
Thursday, December 3, 2020
one hour between the hours of 12 midnight and 6 a.m. on any given day. Any violator of this article shall be fined $50 for each offense and, in addition, shall pay for the towing, moving, parking and storage of any vehicle removed in accordance with this article.
Plainville, and nearly every other Connecticut municipality, remains in the coronavirus red zone. The color coded status for cities and towns represents two weeks of cases. The trigger for red status starts at a rate of 15 cases per 100,000 people per day. The state’s most recent report, issued Nov. 30, showed 125 positive cases in Plainville. That works out to an average of
50.7 daily cases per 100,000 people. Plainville first shifted to red status on Nov. 5. The changes that come with the red designation include issuing a public health alert, advising high risk people to stay home, limiting trips outside of the home and gatherings with non-family members, and canceling public events. See COVID, A14
Church welcomes ‘dynamic’ leader The Rev. Caleb Scott Evans has accepted the call to serve as the new minister of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Plainville. A special service will be held Saturday, Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. to commission Father Caleb as the church’s pastor. Bishop Julian Dobbs, the Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word, will officiate.
Father Caleb was ordained to the priesthood in 2013 and received his M.Div from Nashotah House Theological Seminary in 2014. For the past five years, he served as the pastor of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Syracuse, New York. See Church, A13 R233461
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