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COVID-19: This University In Northeast Requiring Students Be Vaccinated Before Fall Semester COVID-19: This University In Northeast Requiring Students Be Vaccinated Before Fall Semester
Covid-19: This University In Northeast Requiring Students Be Vaccinated Before Fall Semester With the recent expansion of eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine in Connecticut and around the country, at least one university in the state is requiring all students to receive a vaccine prior to returning to campus for the fall semester. Wesleyan University in Middletown announced this week that the decision was made to allow for all to return to "residential life and the close-knit, stimulating campus environment so meaningful to all of us." Exceptions to the rule would be those who have approved medical or religious reasons, the university added. For students who are currently on camp…

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by Kathy Reakes
News
COVID-19: College Students To Sub For Teachers In Quarantine COVID-19: College Students To Sub For Teachers In Quarantine
Covid-19: College Students To Sub For Teachers In Quarantine Connecticut is seeking to use college and university students to fill staffing gaps at public schools reeling from COVID-19 infections. On Tuesday, Dec. 1, Gov. Ned Lamont expounded on a plan to recruit college students to work as substitute teachers, either on a volunteer or paid basis, in the state's public schools. The state has had to get creative due to a lack of available teachers during the pandemic. The requirement that people exposed to COVID-19 quarantine for 14 days has left many schools in Connecticut and neighboring Massachusetts short-staffed. With not enough faculty and st…

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by Kristin Palpini
Police & Fire
Middletown Domestic Violence Murder Suspect Captured in Georgia; Bond Set To $1.5M Middletown Domestic Violence Murder Suspect Captured in Georgia; Bond Set To $1.5M
Middletown Domestic Violence Murder Suspect Captured in Georgia; Bond Set To $1.5M A man accused of stabbing his significant other to death has been arrested in Georgia. William Bigaud, Jr., 37, allegedly fled the state after a woman was found dead in a Green Street apartment in Middletown on June 8. Police said her death stemmed from a “domestic violence” incident. Two days after the killing, Bigaud was located in Georgia, police said, and transported back to Connecticut. He is being held on $1.5 million bond and will make a court appearance Friday,, Aug. 7. Bigaud is being charged with: risk of injury to a child, home invasion class A felony, and murder.

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by Kristin Palpini