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UpdatedFri, Jan 8, 2021 at 9:19 pm ET Replies(312) Division Avenue High School in Levittown. (David Allen/Patch) LEVITTOWN, NY — Levittown Public Schools officials are investigating a teachers "offensive" and "hostile" social media post criticizing police following the riots at the U.S. Capitol this week. A high school teacher in North Babylon was also reprimanded for an "inappropriate social media post." The Levittown teacher, who works at Division Avenue High School, wrote a Facebook post d...

Updated / Friday, 8 Jan 2021 21:50 The hospital said that five or six vaccinators are working in rotation One of Dublins main maternity hospitals has said all eligible staff will have received their first doze of the Pfizer Biontech vaccine by this evening. The Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital began vaccinating staff on Wednesday when it received its first delivery. The master of the hospital, Professor Michael OConnell, said the vaccine was thawed when it was arrived and could be ...

Reply Elwood-John H. Glenn High School senior Rithika Narayan. (Courtesy: Elwood Union Free School District) ELWOOD, NY — Rithika Narayan, a senior at Elwood-John H. Glenn High School, was selected as a 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar, according to the school district. Rithikas project is "Machine Learning on Crowd-Sourced Data to Highlight Coral Disease." She is among 300 high school seniors who were selected as scholars from 1,760 applications. The Regeneron Science Talent Sear...

January 6, 2021, will go down as one of the worst days in our history. Subscribe At the national level, we saw armed insurrectionists, cheered on by the President of the United States, trash our Capitol Building and drive our elected representatives into underground tunnels and inside barricaded and locked offices. Four people died in a building where blood was last spilled in the 1998 murders of two Capitol policemen. As news broke of rioters taking over the halls of Congress, I was sitting in...

UpdatedWed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:58 pm ET Replies(2) Mayor Bill de Blasio pressed Gov. Andrew Cuomo — again — for permission to vaccinate wider swaths of vulnerable New Yorkers. (NYC Mayor’s Office) NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a pointed plea for permission to give the coronavirus vaccine to New Yorkers over 75. Left unnamed was the pleas target — Gov. Andrew Cuomo. De Blasios remarks Wednesday were the latest in a days-long campaign for the "state" — really, Cuomo — to g...

Reply Jan. 6, 2021 Subscribe First, thank you to the voters of the 34th District: Durham, East Haven, North Haven and Wallingford for putting your trust in me as your state senator. This is a great district and we all share the common concerns of making Connecticut affordable to provide for our families, living in safe communities and the ability to earn a living as small business owners and public and private employees. I was born and raised here in East Haven and was educated in our public s...

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Replies(2) (Google Maps) WALTHAM, MA —After years of back and forth and pushback from the community, a luxury apartment building with 25 percent of its units deemed "affordable" to be built at 341 2nd Ave near Bear Hill Road is under construction. The project "Broadstone Watch City" is set to feature 195 apartments, 49 of which will be designated affordable. The project was brought forward by Alliance Residential Co., a Phoenix-based developer, is being built using an affordable housing law...

Reply State Sen. Will Haskell (D-Westport) is proposing legislation for the creation of a Connecticut COVID-19 memorial. (Beth Dalbey/Patch) The following op-ed is by state Sen. Will Haskell (D-Westport): I was five years-old on September 11, 2001, when my mom picked me up early from school and we drove to Sherwood Island State Park. Standing on the shores of the Long Island Sound, we stared silently across the water and saw the smoke rising from Lower Manhattan. Today, Sherwood Island is home ...

UpdatedWed, Jan 6, 2021 at 10:22 pm ET Replies(27) No credible threats were made against the Rhode Island State House or other government buildings, according to state police. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) PROVIDENCE, RI — As the country reels from the unexpected siege of the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers prepared to certify the results of the presidential election, Rhode Island leaders are firing back and decrying the actions of President Donald Trump and his supporters. Amid concerns of simi...