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Mosquito-borne diseases, such as EEE and West Nile virus infection, can cause life-threatening neuro-invasive disease, including encephalitis and meningitis. (Shutterstock)
CONNECTICUT The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station today announced it is monitoring mosquitoes for the presence of viruses that can cause illness in people, including West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis virus.
CAES will be trapping mosquitoes in 108 locations statewide in the program that will run from June 1 until the end of October. The first test results will be available the week of June 7. The mosquito monitoring program serves as an effective early warning system to detect and assess the risk of mosquito-borne diseases in Connecticut, said Philip Armstrong, medical entomologist at CAES.
The Washington, D.C. area performing arts organization Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts has awarded grants to eight local high schools across metropolitan Washington, D.C. grants to fund music, dance, or theater projects at their respective schools, as part of Wolf Trap s Grants for High School Performing Arts Teachers Program. Students will receive Master Classes with Broadway performers; guidance from local historians and artists; and instruction from area performance groups. Projects will be either in-person and virtual, and in some cases, will be collaborative across the school s county. Wolf Trap will feature grantees progress via #WolfTrapVirtualStage and via Wolf Trap s Virtual Stage platform.
(Updated at 6 p.m.) This year, Arlingtonians spread Christmas cheer in new ways to bring hope to people virtually or from a distance.
Choir directors at Arlington Public Schools and Bishop O’Connell High School spent hundreds of hours stitching together student videos to create virtual Christmas concerts. A troop of Brownie Scouts virtually judged a gingerbread contest for folks at a local retirement home. And Santa is making special stops in Arlington in his pickup truck, visiting with children from a distance.
Bishop O’Connell choir director Kyra Stahr burned the midnight candle to publish videos to replace the Christmas concert, which is normally the most well-attended performance, she said.