Amid recent government guidance that gives hope an end to the pandemic may be in sight, residents and business owners are trying to figure out what the
Jason Navallil vaccinates a customer at the Nutmeg Pharmacy in Taftville. (Photo submitted)
A sign in front of Nutmeg Pharmacy invites residents to get vaccinated. (Photo submitted)
Cailin Wadja vaccinates a customer at the Nutmeg Pharmacy in Taftville. (Photo submitted )
Published April 06. 2021 8:40AM
Brian Barganier, Special to The Times
Locally owned pharmacies were a thing you once would see on every corner block in a major city. Now it almost feels like we took for granted how often you’d seen them because pretty much anywhere now they are a scarcity.
Norwich was once a city dotted with locally owned pharmacies that have faded away throughout the years. Uncas Pharmacy recently became a Walgreens, which was really sad news to the community, to see an underdog bought out by big business.
NORWICH - Norwich Free Academy teachers, staff and administrators were the latest group of Eastern Connecticut school personnel to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, courtesy of a mass clinic that planned to put shots into 185 arms on Friday.
The clinic, inside the school’s Norton Gymnasium, came together through the efforts of NFA and the Nutmeg Pharmacy in Taftville with school nurses helping to give first-dose shots of the Moderna vaccine to waiting staffers.
NFA Director of Office Communications Michael O’Farrell said by day’s end about 95% of the school’s roughly 300-member staff would have received their first vaccination dose, a number that included employees who sought out and received shots on their own.