Three Upper Valley districts join fight
Modified: 5/10/2021 9:56:32 PM
CLAREMONT Three Upper Valley school districts plan to join a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s education funding system as part of a coalition that now stretches from Sullivan County to the Seacoast.
Claremont, Newport and Grantham will join seven other school districts that intend to argue state funding fails to meet students’ basic educational needs, according to Manchester attorney Michael Tierney, who represents the plaintiffs.
Tierney said Monday that other districts also are debating joining the suit, which was first filed in 2019, and could be named in future filings.
Those include the Mascoma Valley Regional School District, which is scheduled to discuss the matter next month, according to School Board Vice Chairman Tim Josephson.
Dartmouth COVID-19 case counts continue to decline
Modified: 3/8/2021 9:33:26 PM
HANOVER Dartmouth College has begun easing COVID-19 restrictions after case counts continued to decline at the college over the weekend.
The relaxation of restrictions on Monday included reopening group spaces including Baker-Berry Library, Collis Center, Top of the Hop, Kemeny Hall, Alumni Gym and Zimmerman Fitness Center, Dr. Lisa Adams and Josh Keniston, the co-chairs of the college’s COVID-19 taskforce, said in a message to the community.
Despite the gradual reopening, students continue to be barred from visiting one another in their rooms or gathering in hallways, the message said. Common spaces and kitchens in residence halls remain closed and dining options will continue to be “grab and go.”
COVID-19: More Upper Valley retirement communities report virus clusters
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Modified: 1/15/2021 9:48:54 PM
WINDSOR More retirement communities in the Upper Valley are dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks.
At the Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community on Route 5 in Windsor, five residents and four staff members in the Village at Cedar Hill memory care center have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to co-owner Patricia Horn.
“So far we have been able to confine it to that,” she said, noting that Cedar Hill’s assisted living and nursing home patients have so far tested negative.
No one has required hospitalization, with residents showing “minimum symptoms” including a low fever, some congestion and some who are more lethargic, she said.
COVID-19: Kendal at Hanover sees cases in residents
Modified: 1/14/2021 10:59:59 PM
UNITY An outbreak at Sullivan County nursing home in Unity has grown to include 35 people, including 21 residents and 14 employees, said Ted Purdy, the facility’s administrator, in an email. Five employees have recovered and returned to work, he said. Elsewhere in the Upper Valley, Kendal at Hanover now has an outbreak.
Kendal’s outbreak includes three residents, Kendal spokesman Jeff Roosevelt said in an email Thursday. He also said there was one new case in an employee in addition to the four he described earlier in the week.
Kendal, which is on Lyme Road north of downtown Hanover, was one of 11 long-term care facilities that state officials on Thursday added to the list of facilities with ongoing outbreaks.