Volume 27, Number 32
HERE IT COMES ...
Friday, August 6, 2021
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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Fall season remains on course By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
CHESHIRE — The calendar has flipped to August and dates are flashing along the Connecticut high school sports horizon like so many lighthouses. August 12-14 for football team activites. Aug. 21 for the start of football practice. Aug. 26 for the other fall sports. Also flashing: the increase in COVID-19 cases due to the Delta variant. Connecticut’s positivity rate has risen to over 2 percent and all of the state’s eight counties, as of Tues-
day, are considered to have “substantial” community spread. Gov. Ned Lamont and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are advising people, even if they are vaccinated, to again wear masks indoors That said, the CIAC remains on course to start the fall season on time and, with safety protocols again in place, to run it in full, complete with state championships. The CIAC was not caught by surprise by the changing COVID metrics. Nor, with the lessons learned from 2020-21, does it feel unprepared.
“We have anticipated that we would be managing some elements of COVID at least through another year, but we feel we have a lot more information, a lot more data this year from the sports that we were able to play last year, and that we can safely compete,” CIAC Executive Director Glenn Lungarini said Tuesday. See Sports, A9
Local groups decry hateful graffiti By Nadya Korytnikova Town Times
Durham resident Logan King winds up for a throw at the dunk tank during Carnival Day at Camp Nerden in Middlefield. See more on Page 8. Photo by Frank LoGiudice
In late July, Durham's White Farm open space park was vandalized. A swastika and racial and homophobic slurs were spraypainted onto two jersey barriers on the property. Now, police are investigating and town officials are considering adding surveillance cameras. The vandalism occurred Sunday, July 25 and was mentioned in a Middlefield-
Durham Racial Justice Team press release published the following Wednesday, July 28. “Although our two towns have made significant progress in combating racism and increasing dialog between neighbors about it, this act of hate demonstrates that we as a team, and as a whole community, still have a long way to go,” the release states. See Graffiti, A9
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