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First Selectwoman Brenda Kupchick addresses town officials Monday. (Town of Fairfield)
FAIRFIELD, CT The nearly $25 million Fairfield will soon receive from the federal government will be used to install school air conditioning, prevent flooding, and replace or repair infrastructure across town, the first selectwoman announced this week.
Fairfield will be given the $24.8 million over two years as part of the American Rescue Plan Act, introduced in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The act allocated over $65 billion to municipalities throughout the country and $2.55 billion to Connecticut towns and cities.
First Selectwoman Brenda Kupchick held a joint meeting Monday of the Board of Selectmen, Board of Finance and Representative Town Meeting to detail how she intended to spend the money. Kupchick said she planned to use the funds for projects that are shovel ready and will affect large sections of the community, but also encouraged residents to call, email or visi
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Fairfield students gathered Monday to decorate the sidewalks at McKinley Elementary School with messages of unity. (John Whaley)
FAIRFIELD, CT Less than a week after McKinley Elementary students encountered vandalism outside their school, they received a much different surprise messages of kindness and unity, artistically rendered along the school sidewalks.
Students discovered Tuesday on the school s front walkway chalk drawings of hearts, rainbows and flowers, and words encouraging them to be a light in the darkness and reminding them there is unity in our diversity.
The happy surprise was the result of a collaboration between several Fairfield high school and middle school groups. The organizations came together after graffiti that said United States of China and Biden For Socialism was reported to police Jan. 13 on sidewalks near the school and a snow mound in the parking lot.
Officials believe in-school transmission caused COVID spike in Fairfield school
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File photo of Fairfield Woods Middle School.Genevieve Reilly / Genevieve Reilly
FAIRFIELD School officials said they believe that a recent spike in COVID-19 cases at Fairfield Woods Middle School was because someone came to school while contagious.
“While many schools have experienced cases and quarantines among staff and students since the winter break, a recent cluster of cases at Fairfield Woods MS appear to likely be the result of in-school transmission,” Sands Cleary, Fairfield’s health director, said in a message to families this week. “An undiagnosed case was present at the school during their infectious period and later became symptomatic at school.”