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New England College requiring vaccination for fall return
May 21, 2021
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) New England College in Henniker says it will require that students attending classes on campus this fall be fully vaccinated, as well as faculty and staff.
“With the COVID-19 vaccine now widely available throughout the country, we will add it to our list of required vaccinations, President Michele Perkins said in a statement Friday. “With limited exceptions, all students attending classes on campus in fall 2021 must be fully vaccinated. Faculty and staff must also be fully vaccinated by August 1, 2021 if they work on campus.”
Perkins said vaccination of the on-campus community will allow more face-to-face classes, field trips, athletic competitions, and opening up its galleries and theater.
There was a meeting of boys’ lacrosse royalty in Hopkinton on Tuesday afternoon when Derryfield, which has won four straight Division II titles and been to seven straight finals, was in town to visit the three-time defending D-III champion Hawks.For.
Dartmouth’s pandemic wave of applications didn’t carry down to all schools
Devon Johnson (left) and Bobby Hebel, both sophomores at New England College in Henniker, walk to lunch on Tuesday, April 20, 2021
The New England College campus in downtown Henniker on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.
Devon Johnson (left) and Bobby Hebel, both sophomores at New England College in Henniker, walk to lunch on Tuesday, April 20, 2021
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Competition at Ivy League colleges this year has been intense, with schools like Dartmouth, Yale, Brown and Harvard seeing a spike in applications and slimming acceptance rates.
At Dartmouth College, applications for admission jumped by one-third in a single year, according to Vice Provost and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Lee Coffin. In raw numbers, he said, the school saw about 7,000 additional applications over the year before.
Donât start writing Goldenâs political obituary just yet
Just six months from the last congressional election, attention is turning to the next one in November 2022. Republicans think they smell blood in the water around Democratic Congressman Jared Golden. That could be premature.
Maineâs 2nd Congressional District is mostly rural, covering about 80 percent of the vast and less populated parts of Maine. Golden has won the 2nd Congressional District twice now. A second win is usually enough to secure a lock on the seat but Golden knows full well that this is not a certainty.
His first race saw him up against two-term incumbent Republican Bruce Poliquin along with two write-in candidates. None of the four got a majority of the vote and for the first time ever ranked choice voting decided the outcome of a congressional race. In the first incumbent upset since 1916, Golden took Poliquinâs seat 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent.