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Middle schoolers in Torrington are required to keep their cellphones locked away during the school day as of April 25. School officials say the effort is part of a greater plan to help students recover academically and socially from remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. But high schoolers and parents oppose the measure, saying cellphone access is important in emergency situations.

The towns of Kent and New Milford celebrated a newly revived piece of º£½Ç»»ÆÞ history this past Saturday. Eighty years ago, a key figure in prison reform, Florence Chandler Maybrick, died in the village of Gaylordsville.