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SHARON — Years of study and planning by town officials and the Sharon Connect Task Force have led to Comcast proposing a partnership with the town to expand their existing service to underserved homes and businesses within the town.
SHARON — With both officials in the town health department planning to leave their posts in April 2023, the Board of Selectmen at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 25 looked ahead to how the work of that office might be handled in the future.
SHARON — Although the town meeting to decide whether to approve a proposal by Comcast to expand internet service in the town had been postponed to a new date of Thursday, Nov. 10, the scheduled town meeting was still held on Friday, Oct. 28 at the Sharon Center School to decide two other items concerning the current year’s budget.
SHARON — A town meeting vote to consider a proposed partnership with Comcast to expand internet access service to all homes has been postponed.
SHARON — Françoise Rubinsztein Friedlaender, an early woman pioneer in business and science, died suddenly on October 10, 2022 in Sharon Hospital. She was 76 years old. Throughout her life, and against considerable adversity, she identified her own path to independence and fulfillment, with remarkable rationality and calmness.
SHARON — The flu is back, coronavirus is circulating and respiratory viruses are targeting the young. This stew of sickness has schools, nursing homes and hospitals bracing for a long, hard third winter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jerry Milner, a state forester, inspects a newly planted witch hazel shrub at Housatonic Meadows State Park on Tuesday, Oct. 18. Photo by John Coston
SHARON — State workers arrived with heavy equipment at Housatonic Meadows State Park on Tuesday, Oct. 18, to plant trees and prepare the park for restoration.
The same environmentalists who last winter fought the state’s broad-scale tree-cutting were on the scene, lending a hand and collaborating on the renewal work.
Dawn Woodruff Photo submitted
SHARON — Nuvance Health has appointed Dawn Woodruff, MSN, RN, as chief nursing officer of Sharon Hospital.
The appointment was made on Thursday, Oct. 13.
SHARON — With a town meeting scheduled for late October, the Board of Selectmen discussed the duties of the position of performance manager for the Comcast project at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 11.
The town meeting is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 28, beginning at 6 p.m. at Sharon Center School.
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) spoke at the Save Sharon Hospital rally in Sharon on Sunday, Oct. 16. Photo by Patrick L. Sullivan
SHARON — A crowd of more than 300 people, including U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), came to the Sharon town Green Sunday afternoon, Oct. 16, to protest the plan to close Sharon Hospital’s labor and delivery unit and reconfigure the intensive care unit.
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