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RepublicanAmericanMONDAY, APRIL 5, 2021 ALL EDITIONS $1 REP-AM.COM CORONAVIRUS CARDINAL RULE KIANA WILLIAMS, COVID claims debated STANFORD BEAT ARIZONA TO Lamont’s strategy slowed deaths but data are still limited CLAIM NCAA BY KASTURI PANANJADY >> Five UConn dorms did decrease more quickly wrong? Also no. WOMEN’S CTMIRROR.ORG go into quarantine over the time period than The answer is that the data TITLE, PAGE 10A after COVID-19 cases neighboring states. But do the are limited in what they can Gov. Ned Lamont last week increase, Page 7A. data and analysis presented show, particularly now, since took a victory lap for choosing prove the claim that the age- deaths lag from infection by to defy federal guidelines and decline in people dying from based rollout gets the credit? at least two weeks. Even when roll out the COVID-19 vaccine COVID compared to our No, say Saad Omer and Ted the data have a chance to almost exclusively by age. neighboring states,” his office Cohen, epidemiologists at the catch up, correlation doesn’t “Our strategy to rank those tweeted. Yale School of Public Health. necessarily imply causation. GONZAGA VS. BAYLOR most at risk based on age has The number of Connecti- Does this mean that Lam- NATION’S TOP TWO TEAMS MEET contributed to a more rapid cut’s COVID-related deaths ont’s claim is necessarily See VACCINE, Page 6A IN INDIANAPOLIS TONIGHT FOR NCAA MEN’S TITLE, PAGE 10A “Developing our own and having the kids come back to the community and show what is Aid for Sacred Heart planned possible would be an amazing experience.” — Torrington High School Principal Robin Ledversis Representatives from Holy Cross, St. Paul, the Archdiocese of Hartford and Waterbury Mayor Neil M. O’Leary’s office have been meeting to plan scholarships for displaced Sacred Heart students. PAGE 3A EDUCATION MENTORS ARRIVE Opening in downtown Winsted Jackie McNamara of Torrington has reopened her clothing store Live in a new location, one of a number of businesses opening in downtown Winsted. PAGE 1B Kent filling town positions After a year when town offices had to conduct business with their offices closed to the public, Kent now must fill several vacancies due to resignations. PAGE 3A BRUNO MATARAZZO JR. REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY NEWS, PAGE 3B Jenna Nikirk, lead teacher in the pre-kindergarten lab at Torrington High School, reads a book to students Thursday. The lab is part of the school’s child development curriculum. High school students enrolled in child development classes join the lab weekly to observe, interact and implement skills they are learning with the preschool students. OPINION OF THE DAY: “Humanity is looking for the good in people; treating everyone as equals; and ‘Game-changing’ national program expands to Waterbury showing compassion, respect and empathy to others. We BY LANCE REYNOLDS New Britain High School should care for and help others whenever and wherever REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN CLASSROOM GAP launched three years ago, has expanded to 13 other Con- possible — when they need that help the most.” >> About 47% of 527,830 students enrolled in the state’s 205 WATERBURY — Jahana public school districts last year were from racial and ethnic necticut public school dis- — Carmel Perillo, Oakville Hayes wanted to get a jump minorities. tricts, including Hayes’ native READ THE FULL LETTER ON PAGE 8A start into her dream career city of Waterbury, Stamford, as a teacher before going to >> More than 90% of the state’s 52,005 full-time certified New Haven and Danbury. college, but she said she did- school employees were white. “This is exactly what I n’t know what classes and Source: Connecticut State Department of Education needed,” Hayes said during a programs to take for that to virtual Educators Rising con- happen. ference last week. “This is TODAY AT Hayes, now a Democratic Year in 2016 while teaching tors Rising, an organization the type of program I wish I congresswoman representing social studies at Kennedy providing high school students had. 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High 60 LITCHFIELD — There is The homeowner is mostly clear and no “for sale” or business sign VDARE’s director, Peter Low 37 chilly tonight. outside the contemporary Brimelow. Page 8B home at the prestigious local VDARE is a 501(c)(3) foun- address of 447 South St., but a dation, which means it has woman at a number listed for met the IRS standards for an Business 1B Editorials 8A Obituaries 4B that address answers the organization intended “for Classified 2B Horoscope 8B Sports 9-10A phone, “VDARE Foundation.” the public good” and is ex- The foundation’s website de- empt from federal income Comics 6B Jumble 7B Sudoku 7B scribesRepublican-American the nonprofit organiza- taxes, -IRS 04/05/2021 spokesman Ken- Page : A07 Crossword 7B Local news 3A Television 7B tion as one which seeks to “in- neth Vargas said. MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2021 L M REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN 7A form the fight to keep America Brimelow founded VDARE DearAnnie8B Lottery 2A Your Day 2A American” as “America’s im- in 1999, according to the non- CONTRIBUTED/KLEMM REALTY migration voice.” profit. Property records show HOUSE: Tax-exempt VDARE 18 pages. © 2021 Republican-American This house at 447 South St. in Litchfield, which has a low Litchfield won’t be the or- he bought his Litchfield home Established 1881, profile and is hardly visible from the road, is listed for sale ganization’s home much in 2007. With aid, schools seek Waterbury, Connecticut through Klemm Realty for $810,000. The homeowner is longer. The house, which has moving to castle in W. Virginia All rights reserved VDARE’s director, Peter Brimelow. a low profile and is hardly See HOUSE, Page 7A 6 34373 12494 2 Read it at rep-am.com Continued from Page One >> What is VDARE? An email interview with its director, Peter Brimelow of Litchfield, Page 7A. The tax code stipulates solutions to problems that exempt purposes must be “charitable, religious, ed- ucational, scientific, liter- ary, testing for public safety, BY COLLIN BINKLEY fostering national or inter- ASSOCIATED PRESS national amateur sports competition, or prevent cru- With a massive infusion of elty to children or animals.” federal aid coming their way, Vargas said VDARE is up to schools across the U.S. are date on its 990 filings and is weighing how to use the wind- in good standing as a public fall to ease the harm of the pan- charity. demic — and to tackle prob- Brimelow said in an email lems that existed long before to the Republican-American CONTRIBUTED the coronavirus. that the organization seeks In February 2020, VDARE Director Peter Brimelow of The assistance that was ap- to “provide information and Litchfield bought this 19th-century castle in Berkeley proved last month totals $123 analysis, with the difference Springs, W.Va., for $1.4 million. His intention, he said by billion — a staggering sum that that we are actually truth- email, is to use the property as a venue for conferences will offer some districts several ful.” times the amount of federal ed- that he said have been canceled under pressure of ASSOCIATED PRESS threats at other venues. ucation funding they receive in BRIMELOW, BORN IN ENG- a single year. The aid will help In this March photo, science teacher Christopher Duggan LAND 73 years ago and an schools reopen and expand squirts hand sanitizer on the hands of student Jaiden Taylor, immigrant, is a former con- summer programs to help stu- left, at Windsor Locks High School. tributor to Barrons, Fortune, dents catch up on learning. It Market Watch and National also offers a chance to pursue schools in other relief pack- 83% of students come from Review. He was a senior ed- programs that have long been ages during the pandemic. low-income families, the dis- itor at Forbes from 1986 un- seen as too expensive, such as Schools must reserve 20% trict expects to get $120 mil- til 2002. His controversial intensive tutoring, mental for summer programs and lion — nearly three times the best-seller “Alien Nation: health services and major cur- other efforts to address learn- amount it gets in federal edu- Common sense about Amer- riculum upgrades. ing loss, but they expect to cation funding in a typical ica’s immigration disaster” “This feels like a once-in-a- have wide flexibility in how to year. Along with building up- was released in 1996. generation opportunity for us use most of the aid. With more grades, the aid will help VDARE communicates to be able to make critical in- than three years to spend the achieve a goal to provide sum- largely through the internet, vestments," said Nathan Kuder, new money, school leaders mer programs and after- where its website states its chief financial officer of Boston are thinking big.