Mountain Times - Volume 49, Number 48 - Nov. 25- Dec. 2, 2020
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The <strong>Mountain</strong> <strong>Times</strong> • <strong>Nov</strong>. <strong>25</strong> - <strong>Dec</strong>. 1, <strong>2020</strong> LOCAL NEWS • 3<br />
Covid strikes Rutland schools<br />
Staff report<br />
Courtesy dft.vermont.gov<br />
Vermont has seen an increase in Covid cases at schools, but still fewer than most.<br />
While schools seemed to be<br />
limiting the spread of Covid-19 fairly<br />
well initially, a number of cases have<br />
recently been reported in Rutland<br />
County.<br />
Earlier this month, a preschooler<br />
at Orwell Village School tested positive<br />
and last week there were three<br />
confirmed cases in Rutland City<br />
Public Schools — each at a different<br />
school. The cases involved a<br />
kindergartner at Northwest Primary<br />
School, a Rutland Intermediate<br />
School (RIS) sixth grader and an<br />
Rutland Middle School (RMS) staff<br />
member.<br />
At Northwest, both kindergarten<br />
classes were put in quarantine and<br />
moved to remote learning until<br />
next Monday. At RIS, the entire sixth<br />
grade was placed under quarantine<br />
and will remain remote until <strong>Dec</strong>. 2.<br />
At Rutland Middle School a cohort of<br />
students was also placed under quarantine<br />
but will return to in-person<br />
instruction next Monday.<br />
Superintendent Bill Olsen has said<br />
cases have shown that the district’s<br />
preparation has paid off, as infection<br />
doesn’t seem to have spread within<br />
the school.<br />
Additionally, in the nearby Greater<br />
Rutland County Supervisory District<br />
a sixth-grader at Poultney Elementary<br />
School tested positive Friday, <strong>Nov</strong>.<br />
20. The combined fifth- and sixthgrade<br />
classrooms are now remote<br />
and will remain that way for two<br />
weeks. It was the first case of Covid in<br />
the GRCSU school district.<br />
Earlier this month, a Pre-K student<br />
who attends Mary Johnson Children’s<br />
Center (run out of Orwell Village<br />
School) tested positive, but since<br />
the student was not in school during<br />
the time they were infectious so it did<br />
not affect the K-8 school.<br />
David Younce, superintendent of<br />
the Mill River Unified Union School<br />
District, said that although his district<br />
has not seen any cases of Covid<br />
it has connections to the cases in the<br />
Rutland. Employees with children in<br />
city schools may have to quarantine.<br />
He described it as “the tangled web of<br />
quarantine impacts” in an interview<br />
with the Rutland Herald.<br />
Younce said about 50% of district<br />
employees opted to be tested as part<br />
of the state’s new K-12 surveillance<br />
Schools >10<br />
Man steals car, leads<br />
police on chase through<br />
Rutland, Clarendon and<br />
Wallingford<br />
On Thursday, <strong>Nov</strong>. 19, at 9:10 p.m., officers from<br />
the Rutland City Police Dept. were advised of a stolen<br />
vehicle complaint from Panera Bread parking lot in<br />
Rutland City.<br />
While investigating this complaint, officers observed<br />
this vehicle traveling on Route 7 and attempted to conduct<br />
a motor vehicle stop. The vehicle failed to yield, and a<br />
brief pursuit ensued. Officers discontinued the pursuit at<br />
the intersection of Route 7 and Route 103 in Clarendon.<br />
Vermont State Police troopers then again attempted to<br />
conduct a motor vehicle stop on Route 103. The vehicle<br />
failed to yield to troopers and a pursuit ensued. The vehicle<br />
traveled southbound on<br />
Route 7 in the northbound<br />
lane of travel at a high rate of<br />
speed.<br />
The vehicle turned on<br />
to Hartsboro Road and<br />
Homerstone Road in<br />
Wallingford, where troopers<br />
successfully used a tire<br />
deflation device to stop the<br />
vehicle. The operator was<br />
Troopers<br />
successfully<br />
used a tire<br />
deflation<br />
device to stop<br />
the vehicle.<br />
identified as Jeffrey Kozikowski, 43, of Rutland, who was<br />
taken into custody without incident.<br />
Kozikowski was transported to the Rutland City Police<br />
Dept. for processing. After processing, Kozikowski was<br />
issued a citation to appear in Rutland Superior Court<br />
Criminal Division on <strong>Nov</strong>. 20 to answer to the charges<br />
of Attempting to Elude, Grossly Negligent Operation,<br />
Aggravated OOC, and Grand Larceny. Kozikowski was<br />
ultimately lodged at Southern State Correctional Facility.<br />
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