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Volume 28, Number 5

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Friday, February 4, 2022

COVID-19

Cases continue decline locally Town Times report

The state’s latest COVID-19 report, which includes two weeks of data, showed 110 positive cases in Durham and 50 in Middlefield, a marked drop from last month when local cases numbered 221 during one two-week span. Despite a slowing rate of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations statewide, health experts said that talk of turning the corner is premature.

Dominic Parciasepe, of Middletown, waits for a bite while ice fishing at Black Pond on Jan. 26. The 76-acre pond is located on the Middlefield-Meriden line. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal

Author to dish on ‘Real Housewives’ The “Real Housewives” reality television franchise is a guilty pleasure for many. If you count yourself among those faithful viewers, the Durham Public Library has just the program for you. On Thursday, Feb. 24, author Brian Moylan will discuss his New York Times bestseller, “The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives.” The virtual event begins at 6 p.m. “In the spring of 2006, a new kind of

show premiered on Bravo: The Real Housewives of Orange County. Its stars were tanned, taut, and bedazzled; their homes were echoey California villas; and their drama was gossip-fueled, wine-drenched, and absolutely exquisite,” the book jacket reads. “Fifteen seasons on, RHOC is an institution, along with The Real Housewives of New York, Atlanta, New Jersey, Miami, Potomac, and more. Over the years these ladies have done a lot more than lunch, See Real Housewives, A2

“It’s still too early to determine that,” said Dr. Ulysses Wu, chief epidemiologist & system director at Hartford HealthCare. “It has to move away from being widespread in all countries. I don’t know when, but eventually.” World governments, including the U.S., can do more to move things in the right direction, said Dr. Peter Hotez. A global vaccination effort, including developing and manufacturing vaccines that utilize a variety of technologies, is critical to keeping variants at bay and overcoming hesitancy. Hotez told reporters during a virtual media conference on Thursday, Jan. 27 that it’s time to take a look at the durability of the current mRNA vaccines now used to combat the pandemic. Hotez is dean of the National See COVID-19 cases, A2

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Letters to the Editor

Here are some tips stated in an article about Random Act of Kindness Day posted on NationalToday.com: Say hello to people you don't know and people you do; write a positive handwritten note to your teacher, friend, coworker or supervisor; pick up litter; place positive notes at work and home; pay for someone’s coffee or snack; shovel a driveway; or check on a neighbor. Spread cheer wherever you go, and on social media. And, most importantly, smile. Do this today, and don't stop on Feb. 17. Make it a habit. Frank Logiudice

Good point Editor : I’m commenting on a recent letter regarding voting no on Feb. 8; i.e. using a no vote to force a re-vote on closure of Lyman School. The letter-writer makes a good point. Namely, the additional educational costs of teaching children to think outside the box, which has always been controversial.

Editor : In December of 2018, there was a referendum to vote to convert Korn School into a Community Center. The cost would have been some $7 million.

William J. Witkowski, D.M.D. 360 Main Street P.O. Box 177 Allan A. Witkowski, John Zyzo, D.M.D. D.M.D. Durham, CT

The Community Center would have provided programs for young and old and would have offered innumerable opportunities for residents to interact and stay connected. It was resoundingly defeated, as the cost was believed to be prohibitive. Subsequently, the issue of purchasing Korn School, by the Town of Durham, was revisited and approved for a much lower cost. Now, we are being asked to spend $7.5 million to renovate John Lyman School. It seems unconscionable that at this moment in time we are being asked to spend an enormous amount of money for an under-utilized building and for a dwindling population of school-age children. The pandemic has already caused much strife to our citizens. I am voting no on Feb. 8. Please consider joining me. Lainy Melvin

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Mask-wearing, vaccines, boosters and regular testing are key to making COVID-19 an endemic illness like the cold and flu, the health experts said.

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“The omicron wave does seem to be subsiding. We have to see if it goes down as quickly as it accelerated,” Hotez said.

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The strange case of the shrinking driveway Of course, the frozen tundra that is my driveway has not receded one tiny little bit. Now it is all ice, and any hope of unmasking my driveway, to a significant degree, is long gone.

the road, vowing that I would do a better job when I returned. I did no such thing, I am sorry to report. My driveway has shrunk considerably over the past few weeks. It used to be sizeable enough, giving me lots of leeway for driving out into the world and returning again. But now it has about as much surface, sans snow and ice, as an area rug. Okay, maybe it’s not so much my driveway thinking it would be great fun to shrink as me not shoveling quite as much as I needed to. I just hate shoveling, which does not bode well for living in Connecticut, I know. With our first significant snowstorm, pressed for time to get to work, I shoveled just enough — a narrow strip — to get my car, Lila, out into

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I did attempt to turn my car around so that she was facing in the right di- This also poses a bit of a sticky wickrection. et when I return home. The naked part of my driveway is so sparse that No easy task, that. I kept getting it is no easy thing to turn into it. stuck, knocking up against snowbanks hither and thither, wondering I always end up driving over the ice if Lila would ever be facing Madison that is on either side, leaving tire Road again, instead of gazing at my tracks galore, hoping I do not take front door. out a tail light or two, since my Artic

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Things really are not looking good in the driveway department. As I write this we are in the direct path of a humdinger of a nor’easter, and that is not going to do my driveway any favors. I see a lot of rocking to and fro in my future.

She doesn’t. She says she can’t, no matter how hard she tries. I can relate.

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Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y., named Anja Dell’Oso to its dean’s list for the fall semester.

Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., named Benjamin Howell to its dean’s list for the fall semester.

Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., named Noelle Sorensen to its dean’s list for the fall semester. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I., named Erica Fontanella to its dean’s list for the fall semester. University of New Haven, West Haven, named Cameron Ledford to its dean’s list for the fall semester.

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In Brief Cookie sales Its our favorite time of year — Girl Scout Cookie season. The Huscher Team of William Raveis Real Estate will buy two boxes from each local scout, and the cookies will go to the community food pantries. Email cookie sales links to debbie.huscher@raveis.com.

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In Brief Referendum A referendum has been scheduled, for Tuesday, Feb. 8. Local voters will be asked: “Shall Regional School District No. 13, comprised of the Towns of Durham and Middlefield, appropriate $7,500,000 for renovations and improvements to John Lyman Elementary School and authorize the issuance of bonds, notes or temporary notes in an amount not to exceed $7,500,000 to finance the appropriation?”

absence from the town during all of the hours of voting, illness, religious tenets forbid secular activity on the day of the election, duties as an official at a polling place other than your own during all of the hours of voting, or physical disability. Absentee ballot applications can be found online at portal.ct.gov/SOTS.

ered at the Durham library to organize the first garden club in town. Now in its 88th year, the Durham Garden Club is faced with a dwindling membership. The club invites all who love gardening and nature to consider joining. Contact Karen Patterson at tashmoo4me@aol.com or 860349-3506.

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