Some Milford school projects delayed in $99.7M budget
Donald Eng
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The MIlford Board of Education discusses Superintendent Anna Cutaia’s 2021-22 budget proposal at one of its January budget workshops.Zoom screen capture
MILFORD The Board of Education approved a budget members said meets the needs of the city’s students, but puts off most of their wants.
“I think the administration has had to make difficult choices,” board Chairman Susan Glennon said. “I’m confident this administration knows what’s needed.”
The board decided in a 9-1 vote last month to approve Superintendent Anna Cutaia’s $99.7 million proposal. It’s a decision board member Andrew Fowler opposed, citing a continuing trend of rising costs and declining enrollment projections.
When classes transitioned online in March, Andrew Fowler began working as a clinical care technician in the intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Andrew Fowler)
Junior Andrew Fowler pulled countless all nighters last semester, but not for the same reasons most college students did. It wasn’t because of wild nights or grinding on research papers that Fowler would head to sleep at 9 a.m. it was because mornings were when he could finally lie down after a 12-hour night shift at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Despite being a premed student majoring in pharmacology and drug development with 18 units of coursework, Fowler has been balancing responsibilities as a full-time student and clinical care technician since last March. Having worked in an ER since age 17 and receiving certification as a pharmacy technician, phlebotomist, EMT and nursing assistant in high school, Fowler said he felt responsible to take on the new challenge o
By Keith Johnson
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178-year-old church bell returns to St. Augustine after months of restoration
The church bell at Trinity Parish, the first Protestant church in Florida, was restored in Cincinnati. It will be rung on the church s 200th birthday. Author: Leah Shields Updated: 6:02 AM EST December 18, 2020
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. It’s a homecoming for the history books.
The bell at Trinity Parish in St. Augustine is returning back to its proper place in the church after it was restored for the first time since 1842.
It will be lifted back in the steeple after it was removed for restoration in August. Father Matt Marino says the wheel of the bell has crumbled over the years.