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Volume 27, Number 6
Selectmen form Equity, Diversity & Inclusion panel
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By Nadya Korytnikova Town Times
gious creed, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, status as a veteran, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial and marital status, pregnancy, or physical and mental disability,” the committee's preamble reads.
The Durham Board of Selectmen voted last week to create a town Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee. The committee, which will consist of five members, is tasked with organizing and supporting events, programs, and opportunities to promote and encourage diversity and inclusion.
Water makes its way down the ice-covered Wadsworth Falls located along the Coginchaug River at Wadsworth Falls State Park in Middlefield on Friday, Jan. 29. Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
The panel will report to the Board of Selectmen at least biannually and will make recommendations to the town as necessary.
The panel will work in conjunction with any diversity committees that Regional School District 13 might form. The Durham selectmen approved the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee at its Monday, Jan. 25 meeting. “The Committee shall identify programmatic, community, and legislative practices with regard to race, color, ethnicity, reli-
“I think it’s a great thing that we do this,” Selectman John Szewczyk said. “It’s probably long overdue … I heard from a few people, but one person wants to be on it specifically so I think we need to start trying to find individuals who have an interest and want to serve ...” The Board of Selectmen is scheduled to appoint committee members during its Feb. 8 meeting.
Governing body drops sport-by-sport ‘risk’ categories By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
eration of State High School Associations.
CHESHIRE — The label of “high risk” is off the national high school sports table. So is “moderate risk.” So is “low.”
The NFHS, which oversees high school sports associations across the country, including the CIAC, announced Tuesday afternoon that its Sports Medicine Advisory Committee has revised the COVID-19 guidance that has been in place since last May. It’s been replaced it with a new “Statement on Risk of COVID-19 During High School Sports.”
The categories that have been used to gauge the risk of COVID-19 spread among high school sports — and shaped decisions on which sports would play and not play — have been abandoned by the National Fed-
The move was prompted by greater understanding of COVID-19, including growing evidence, according to the NFHS, that the majority of sports-related spread of the disease appears to occur from social contact, and not during sports participation. “As knowledge of the virus that causes COVID-19 has evolved, we have increasingly recognized that transmission depends upon multiple See NFHS, A12
The Lyman Hall/Haddam-Killingworth/Coginchaug ice hockey team basks in the glow after winning the 2019 CIAC Division III state championship. Ron Buck, Special to the Record-Journal