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Amherst County Public Schools honored the most recent student of the month recipients at the county school board’s Dec. 14 meeting. The recipient students are listed below with comments from

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Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, is accused of killing Somaiya Begum (pictured), 20, at her home in Bradford, in June last year. She was found with a metal spike in her chest 11 days after disappearing.

Vaccine demand dropping sharply in Connecticut, even as vaccination rate ranks high nationally Emily Brindley, Hartford Courant © Provided by Hartford Courant The demand for the coronavirus vaccines has dropped sharply in Connecticut in recent weeks, signaling a shift to a new — and in some ways, more challenging — phase of the state’s vaccine rollout. Even as Connecticut continues to rank among the top states in the country for overall vaccination rates, the number of n...

Written by Gov. Ned Lamont Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Department of Public Health is partnering with the Connecticut chapters of nine historically African American, Greek-lettered fraternities and sororities to further combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and increase access to the vaccine within the state’s Black and Brown communities. The partnership stems from the Department of Public Health’s Trusted Messenger Forum program, which works to train and prov...

Messengers go door-to door in their neighborhoods, organize pop-up vaccine clinics and...