This initiative also will include the distribution of N95 masks. The Connecticut Department of Public Health, Connecticut Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, and Connecticut National Guard will oversee the distribution of the kits, with support from regional and local emergency management teams. Distribution of these kits is scheduled to begin on Thursday, December 30, 2021, and is expected to run through the following week. The first allocation will include the distribution of 500,000 iHealth kits – each containing two tests for a total of one million tests – that will be designated for the general public. Governor Ned Lamont today announced plans to distribute three million COVID-19 at-home rapid tests and six million N95 masks in Connecticut in an effort to help curb the spread of COVID-19 during this heavy travel and holiday season. He’s the only one in the world who could possibly understand. I had to call John Murray (the Publisher of The Waterbury Observer) immediately. ![]() A sudden surge of memories hit-followed by pain, regret and shame that the story was never published. I had no idea that I still had the files and notes from a huge story I had been working on when I left my job as police reporter at the Register-Citizen newspaper in Torrington, Connecticut. Printed in faded ink on the tab was the word, “Waterbury”. After my mother had died, we sold our family home of 50 years and I had a lot of boxes to rummage through.īuried deep in one box was a folder I hadn’t touched since 1993, the year I left my career in journalism. ![]() ![]() In April 2020 I was in pandemic-lock down in my Boston apartment and surrounded by unopened boxes, some that had not been peeked into for decades. Clockwise from top left is Karen Everett, Mildred Alvarado, Frederica Spinola and Jessica Muskus. Six remain unsolved, and a seventh is shrouded in unanswered questions. Since 1988 eight women have been killed along the Route 8 corridor north of Waterbury.
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