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At the 2016 NCHS graduation ceremony. Credit: Michael Dinan District officials said this week that they’re hopeful New Canaan High School’s class of 2021 will be able to have a graduation ceremony at Dunning Field with at least parents in attendance and possibly others. The state issued guidance on end-of-year events and it includes many of the strategies long in place at New Canaan Public Schools, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bryan Luizzi told members of the Board of Education during their regular meeting Monday night. Those strategies include wearing masks, social distancing, limiting ...

Print article Alaska has changed a lot during my decades here. In my personal opinion, some things have changed for the better, but at least as many have changed not for the better. Very few Alaskans living today can have any memories at all about World War II and the consequences of far-right Nazism on the entire Western world. If they did, perhaps they wouldn’t be so glib about standing up for the far-right fascist extremism that is such a change in Alaska from when I was decades and decades younger. Almost all the Republicans that I knew in the 1960s and 1970s would be classified as �...

Print article JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s third State of the State address will be delivered from his Anchorage office, not in front of the Legislature in Juneau. It may be the first time an Alaska governor has not delivered the annual speech in person to the Legislature. The speech will be broadcast at 7 p.m. Thursday on the governor’s Facebook page and public broadcasting. In a brief written statement Monday night, the governor said his action was caused by “complications created by the COVID global pandemic.” However, Senate President Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, said ...

To understand America’s tumultuous present, we need to be honest about its history Author: Steve Haycox Published January 16 National Guard troops stand behind a fencing outside the U.S. Capitol on Capital Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in Washington, D.C. The House of Representatives convened for a session to take up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, nearly a week after an insurrectionist mob of pro-Trump supporters breached the security of the nation's capitol while Congress voted to certify the 2020 election results. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Sh...