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Fairfield council to discuss how to spend $9.8M in Rescue Plan funds Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — The City Council has nearly $9.81 million in federal funds it needs to spend over the next five years. The funds are what is left of the $19.8 million in American Rescue Plan Act dollars the city is allocated, the first $10 million of which on May 18 was allocated toward improving and expanding broadband infrastructure in the city. “Since that meeting, additional guidance was released by the U.S. Department of the Treasury tightening the eligible uses related to broadband projects,” a staff report to the council states. “The guid-
ance is not finalized and the city continues to work with advocacy groups to expand . . . Treasury’s definition of eligible projects.” One of the clear directives in the Rescue is broadband Plan investment must reach underserved households and businesses. The council will meet in the City Hall chamber for a special meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday to discuss how to spend the rest. The city must show on what it intends to spend the funds by the end of 2024, but has until the end of 2026 to actually use it. The staff report also notes that the council See Funds, Page A9
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A statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee is lifted off its pedestal in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday.
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Death toll reaches 86; site to be cleared ‘sooner than expected’ Tribune Content Agency MIAMI — First responders continuing the search and recovery mission in the debris of the collapsed Surfside condo tower on Saturday worked at times through heavy downpours and strong wind gusts to uncover more of the former residents and visitors of the Champlain Towers South, with perhaps dozens of victims yet to be found. The recovery effort – which overnight pulled seven more bodies from the rubble – briefly paused at 7 a.m. after a lightning strike. But
The pace of finding victims has increased substantially since the demolition of the remaining part of the building nearly a week ago, as rescue workers have accessed a wider area. the grueling, gut-wrenching task went on amid intense heat, and policeescorted trucks carrying debris from the site were seen on the Julia Tuttle See Toll, Page A9
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Nearly a century after it was first erected, and almost four years after it triggered a deadly weekend of violence, the statue of Robert E. Lee sitting on horseback in downtown Charlottesville was hoisted into the air Saturday and carted away on a truck. Many of those watching the bronze monument come down shared the same response: It had been a long time coming. “I don’t have much to say other than this is well overdue,” said Zyahna Bryant, who started a petition while in high school in 2016 to remove the statue. “This should have happened a long time ago.” After years of legal battles, protests and tensions that gripped the community and sometimes the nation, it took only a few minutes
‘We just don’t need things in Charlottesville to intimidate some people because we all have to live together.’ — Lena Jones, lifelong Charlottesville resident
for workers to pull the 1,100pound figure off its pedestal and drive away. Charlottesville City Council had initially voted to remove the statue in February 2017, following Bryant’s petition. But a group of residents sued only a few weeks later, sparking a prolonged fight in court over whether the city could topple such monuments.
Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — A wildfire in Northern California more than doubled in size from Friday to Saturday, sending up a massive cloud of smoke and ash that combined with the dry heat generated its own lightning and created dangerous weather conditions for firefighters, authorities said. The Sugar fire, which ignited July 2, had spread to 54,421 acres and was 8% contained
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Others took their defense of the Confederate iconography to the streets. That summer, white supremacists descended on the city in violent protest. One man drove his car through a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-yearold Heather Heyer. Long a fraught symbol for many in Charlottesville, the Lee figure quickly became a national flash point over tensions on how to deal with statues honoring the Confederate war leaders who fought a losing battle to preserve the institution of slavery. Like a statue of fellow Gen. Stonewall Jackson three blocks away, the Lee monument was vandalized with paint and graffiti, and “patrolled” by armed groups last summer. Residents fought over whether it could be shrouded
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