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Volume 17, Number 48
Internet provider doubles project
Schools offer help to students amid pandemic By Jessica Simms Special to the Record-Journal
With the COVID-19 pandemic surging again and in some cases moving students to full-time remote learning, students of all ages are feeling a variety of emotions as they cope with how the virus has impacted education.
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 town. GoNetspeed, a Pennsylvaniabased company, had planned 52 miles of fiber optic lines for its first step in Southington. Earlier this month, the company announced it will build more than 100 miles of fiber See Internet, A18
Friday, November 27, 2020
“When I talk to parents and they’re of course calling very emotionally charged — their child is not coping well and they’re distraught about what’s going on and what’s being taken away from their child’s normal routine,” said Joanne Etter, coowner of Apple Valley Behavioral Health in Southington.
Dan Denmark, an employee of Rocky Mountain Fiber Plus, strings fiber optic support wire on Maplewood Road on Friday, Nov. 13. Internet service provider GoNetspeed is expanding into Southington. The direct fiber optic connection to homes delivers higher speeds, he said. Eric Cotton, Record-Journal
Each student grapples differently with the impact of the virus on their schooling. Etter said that parents and caregivers need to take into account “where they are at in their developmental stage and maturation level.” See Students, A2
The election is over, but not the fighting On the morning of the Nov. 3 election, the United States Postal Service disclosed that more than 300,000 mail-in 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 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 See Election, A17 R233461
By Nadya Korytnikova The Citizen