Salisbury

LIME ROCK — In a decision made public on May 22, the state Supreme Court ruled that town planning and zoning commissions may regulate auto racing tracks.

LAKEVILLE — A “happy accident” is how author David Kamp describes the optimistic contingent of Northwest Corner residents who, in the early 1970s,  helped revolutionize educational television for children, thereby closing the “achievement gap” between kids from lower-income and middle-class households.

LAKEVILLE — Connecticut’s public schools closed on March 16 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Initially the closure was for two weeks. Then it was extended, and finally Gov. Ned Lamont ordered that schools remain closed for the remainder of the school year.

LIME ROCK — The state Supreme Court has ruled that town planning and zoning commissions may regulate auto racing tracks. 

The decision — involving Lime Rock Park, Salisbury’s Planning and Zoning Commission and the Lime Rock Citizen’s Council — was issued on Friday afternoon, May 22.

SALISBURY — Dr. James Childs of the Yale School of Medicine described the complexities of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic during an online talk sponsored by the Scoville Memorial Library on Thursday, May 14.

Childs, an epidemiologist, began by saying COVID-19 is the third coronavirus  in the last 20 years.