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For the first time in two months, some Charlotte-Mecklenburg School students will return to the classroom Thursday morning.
The first group of students was back in-person Monday and Tuesday. The second rotation of students will attend in-person instruction Thursdays and Fridays. Wednesday is a remote learning day for all students.
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Students who are in Pre-K, elementary schools, K-8 schools, and some students with disabilities who need in-person services went back this week.
Sonny Fox, Pioneering Host of Children’s Show ‘Wonderama’, Dies at 95 of COVID-19
Popular TV personality and producer was known for his role on the syndicated kids series in the 1950s and ’60sReid Nakamura | January 28, 2021 @ 11:42 AM Last Updated: January 28, 2021 @ 11:52 AM
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Sonny Fox, one of the former hosts of the local New York-area children’s variety program “Wonderama,” has died at the age of 95.
Fox’s daughter, Meredith Fox, told The Hollywood Reporter that her father died on Sunday from complications related to COVID-19.
Fox hosted the syndicated “Wonderama” for eight years between 1959 and 1967, taking over the Metromedia-owned series from Bill Britten and Doris Faye. During his tenure, the show ran for four hours every Sunday morning and featured sketches, games and contests, as well as segments in which Fox interacted with the show’s studio audience of children.
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A POW during World War II, he also emceed the game show The $64,000 Challenge and produced Tom Snyder s Tomorrow.
Sonny Fox, the beloved pioneer of kids television who demonstrated an amazing one-on-one rapport with children as the host of the New York-based Sunday morning program
Wonderama, has died. He was 95.
Fox died Sunday of pneumonia induced by COVID-19 in a hospital in Encino, his daughter, Meredith Fox, told
The Hollywood Reporter.
A native of Brooklyn who was a prisoner of war during World War II, Fox also served as a wartime correspondent for the Voice of America; emceed game shows like