Hartford, CT
Business
COVID-19: Bradley Airport Flights Down By 90 Percent - Airline Makes Cuts COVID-19: Bradley Airport Flights Down By 90 Percent - Airline Makes Cuts
Covid-19: Bradley Airport Flights Down By 90 Percent - Airline Makes Cuts In light of COVID-19 travel restrictions, flights at Bradley International Airport are down by 90 percent compared to this time last year. By May of last year, the airport had seen 302,763 boarding passengers since the start of 2019. In 2020, so far there have been 27,941 boarding passengers, according to the airport’s flight logs. This plunge in flights has led Southwest Airlines to cut direct flights from the Windsor Locks airport to other locations - except for Baltimore and Chicago. The change takes place in September. The change in flight availability is temporary. Southwest’s number…

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by Kristin Palpini
Bedford, NY
News
Westchester Native Awarded Nobel Prize For Breakthrough Discovery Westchester Native Awarded Nobel Prize For Breakthrough Discovery
Westchester Native Awarded Nobel Prize For Breakthrough Discovery A Hudson Valley native was one of three researchers who were awarded a Nobel Prize for showing how cells sense and adapt to changing oxygen levels, leading to the discovery of new drugs. The Nobel Prize was awarded to Gregg L. Semenza, a Sleepy Hollow High School alum, who is the C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. William G. Kaelin Jr., who teaches at Harvard, and Peter J. Ratcliffe, who researches at the University of Oxford and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, were also named as the honorees of the 2019 Nobel Prize in …

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by Zak Failla
New Rochelle, NY
Schools
Iona Prep Unveils Five New Hall Of Fame Inductees Iona Prep Unveils Five New Hall Of Fame Inductees
Iona Prep Unveils Five New Hall Of Fame Inductees Iona Preparatory School will induct five new members into its Hall of Fame as part of its Reunion Weekend on April 27-28.  The 2018 honorees include business and community leaders from Under Armour, Nasdaq, Richard Bernstein Advisors, O.C. Tanner and Iona Prep Lower School. “For more than 100 years, Iona Prep has been developing young men into moral, ethical and spiritual leaders, and the Hall of Fame honorees represent the very highest level of excellence,” said Brother Thomas R. Leto, president of Iona Prep in New Rochelle. “We are so proud to add another five outstanding individuals to t…

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by Jon Craig