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Community leaders and members gathered Thursday in celebration of the Pueblo Levee Trail and to remember the Great Flood of 1921.

The tallest mural in Connecticut, a 100-foot image of a young woman watering flowers, has been painted at the corner of Ann Uccello and Pearl streets in Hartford.

Expected COVID baby boom shaping up to be a baby bust Mike Stobbe View Comments New York — When most of the U.S. went into lockdown over a year ago, some speculated that confining couples to their homes — with little to entertain them beyond Netflix — would lead to a lot of baby-making. But the statistics suggest the opposite happened. Births have fallen dramatically in many states during the coronavirus outbreak, according to an Associated Press analysis of preliminary data from half the country. The COVID-19 baby boom appears to be a baby bust. Nationally, even before the epidemic, th...

The Associated Press analyzed birth data from 25 states for late 2020 and this year so far  In February of 2021- about nine months after Covid lockdowns swept the nation last spring - births were down 10% compared to the previous year Instead of a baby boom as expected, 2020 saw a slight decline  from about 60 births per capita in 2018 to 56.8 per capita Q4 of last year, CDC data show  But the decline got steeper in December 2020 and the first two months of 2021, according to the AP analysis 

pandemic, and now as vaccines become more widely available, we are reporting on how our local schools, businesses and communities are returning to a more "normal" future. There's never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces. Please support our work by subscribing today. AP analysis: The expected COVID baby boom may be a baby bust FILE - In this Monday, April 13, 2020 file photo, a couple walks alone in a Kansas City, Mo., park at sunset as stay-at-home orders continue in much of the country in an effort to stem the spread of the...