UVM reports nearly 80 cases since spring semester started
February 18, 2021 GMT
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) The University of Vermont has reported nearly 80 confirmed COVID-19 cases among students during the first two weeks of the spring semester.
The school sent an email to the UVM community on Wednesday after 46 students tested positive for COVID-19 in one week, the Burlington Free Press reported.
“We write now both to put that number in perspective, but also, importantly, to remind everyone of the critical importance of all COVID protocols,” said the email from Patricia Prelock, provost and senior vice president, and Gary Derr, vice president for operations and public safety.
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Bathurst trainer Chris Frisby has had plenty of highs and lows in the sport of harness racing - but he admits a win with Our Uncle Sam in the Group 3 Shirley Turnbull Memorial on Saturday night was more than a little emotional. The Shirley Turnbull is the race everyone in Bathurst wants to win because of who the Turnbulls are, and because everyone knew and loved Shirley - it s always a bit of an emotional race and for me this win was a bit of a tear-jerker, Frisby said. Shirley was a lovely lady and Tony (legendary Bathurst trainer Anthony Turnbull, who is now 90) was there on Saturday night. I had a bit of a yarn with him before the race - it was just an unforgettable night.
How a North County boy became the first U.S. military officer ever to be convicted of treason
Martin James Monti went off to World War IIâand wound up an officer in an elite unit of the Nazisâ Waffen-SS.
JANUARY 26, 1948
Sergeant Martin James Monti steps off a plane at Mitchel Field on Long Island. With customary ceremony, he is presented with an honorable discharge.
Minutes later, federal agents clad in their own uniformâdark suits, white shirts, skinny tiesâapproach. Monti is taken into custody.
Cameras flash, capturing his strong jaw and finely carved features. He is only 23, but his childish softness is long gone. He stands a lean 6-foot-2, his hair wavy and dark against skin made even paler by the flashbulbs. As a teenager in North St. Louis County, he probably drew more admiring glances than he bothered to notice. Quiet, intelligent, and serious, he had no time for frivolity. His mind was consumed with serious ideas, and his convictions were rigid and u