West Brook High School shifts to virtual learning for 5 days due to COVID-19 pandemic
West Brook is switching to virtual learning for all students and staff from January 21 through January 27. Author: Kierra Sam (12News) Updated: 4:05 PM CST January 20, 2021
BEAUMONT, Texas Beaumont Independent School District announced West Brook High School will be closed for the next five days due to a “significant number of students and staff” who tested positive or have been exposed to the coronavirus.
West Brook is switching to virtual learning for all students starting Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021 through Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. The school said they re using this time to deep clean and disinfect the entire campus.
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The sign at the entrance to Island Nursing Home in the Hancock County town of Deer Isle. Students from the University of New England’s nursing and osteopathic medicine program have been helping work at the home since a COVID-19 outbreak in November and December led to staff shortages.
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DEER ISLE For eight months, staff at Island Nursing Home had managed to keep the virus away from residents of their small facility in this historic fishing community.
But when COVID-19 finally arrived just before Thanksgiving, it swept through the Deer Isle nursing home with “insidious” ferocity. Every one of the home’s 62 residents was sickened – 15 of them fatally – along with 38 staff members, despite efforts to immediately segregate and isolate cases.
Westbrook moves forward with solar power plan
A solar farm at the Sandy Hill landfill is expected offset all energy used by municipal buildings, including the schools.
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WESTBROOK The city has contracted with a company to build a solar array that will power all city and school buildings and could save the city $3.5 million over the next 30 years.
C2, an energy company out of New York, is expected to have the solar array at the Sandy Hill landfill off Saco Street built in the next 12 to 14 months, according to Mayor Mike Foley. The company was chosen by both city and school administration.
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An Old Lyme man charged in connection with a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of 19-year-old pedestrian Yeison Jayson Gomez Cruz in 2017 has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, suspended after 2½ years served, with three years of probation.
Daniel J. Coffee, 38, was sentenced before Judge Hunchu Kwak in New London Superior Court on Dec. 14 after pleading no contest to evading responsibility for leaving the scene of the accident that took place on a stormy October night three years ago.
Coffee, who had rejected an earlier plea offer and appeared to be headed for trial, in October accepted an offer from prosecutor Rafael Bustamante that called for the sentence of 10 years in prison, suspended after three years served, followed by three years of probation. His sentence was reduced and carried out by Judge Kwak on Monday. Coffee was taken into custody and brought to Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center to begin his sentence.
BISD relaunches COVID tracker, corrects inaccurate case count
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The Beaumont ISD COVID-19 Tracker pictured here on 12/08/2020 will be replaced after the district says glitches caused data to update inaccurately.Isaac Windes / Beaumont ISD Website
Beaumont ISD is relaunching its COVID-19 tracker this week with a new system, after the district said a system glitch led to incomplete and inaccurate reporting of case numbers.
“We were having issues with Google Data Studio, so it was not feeding the correct information into our COVID tracker from our data sheet,” Denise McLean, BISD director of community and media relations, told The Enterprise Wednesday. “That data sheet always had the correct information.”