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Connecticut — already in the Top 5 states nationwide for its COVID vaccine program — took a huge step forward yesterday.
Governor Lamont announced the expansion of the vaccine to everyone over the age of 16. The planned date to begin scheduling those shots is April 5. That’s significantly ahead of the previous target date.
This Friday (March 19), scheduling opens to all residents age 45 to 54.
For information on making appointments and finding the closest available clinic. click here. You can also call Connecticut’s vaccine appointment assist line: 877-918-2224 7 days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Other vaccine providers include:
Yale New Haven Health
Sign up online here, or call 833-275-9644
CVS Health (limited locations)
Sign up online here, or call 800-679-9691.
Walgreens (limited locations)
Sign up online here, or call 800-925-4733
Stamford Health
Sign-up online here, or call 203-276-7300.
Hartford Healthcare
Sign-up online here, or call 860-827-7690.
Infants are not yet eligible for the COVID vaccine. Maybe soon though …
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The best selling book on Amazon yesterday was LifeLines: An Inspirational Journey from Profound Darkness to Radiant Light.
And by “best selling,” I mean just that. Westporter Melissa Bernstein’s book about her battle with existential anguish and depression was #1.
Not just in the self-help category. Not in “books by women authors.” Not in any of the dozens of other categories that Amazon uses to try to create buzz.
Lifelines was Amazon’s best selling book, among the bajillions of titles the retail behemoth sells.
It may have gotten a boost from fellow Westporter David Pogue’s segment about it on “CBS Sunday Morning,” the day before.
But it also benefits from being a very important book, by a well-known and very honest writer, at a time when talking (and reading) about mental health is crucial.
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Alec Lobrano graduated from Weston High School in 1973. Until he landed a job in the Paris office of Women’s Wear Daily, his experience with French cuisine was limited to browsing cookbooks at the Weston Library, where he worked as a teenager.
But he carved out a niche as a food critic in Paris. The lessons he learned from leading culinary figures helped him master fine dining, and also find his place as a gay man navigating the alluring city and his exciting career.
Lobrano has won several James Beard Awards. He writes on food and travel for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Saveur, Food & Wine, Eater, Condé Nast Traveler and more.
His memoir — My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris — will be published June 1.
The book is filled with vivid descriptions of Parisian restaurants, his favorite and least favorite meals, and run-ins with figures from like Julia Child and Ruth Reichl. It’s also a coming-of-age story about the healing power of food. Click here for details.
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On March 30 (7 p.m.), Westport takes center ice in hockey world.
NBC Sports’ Emmy-winning NHL broadcaster Mike Emrick sits with USA Today‘s veteran beat writer Kevin Allen, for a discussion about Emrick’s new book, Off Mike.
The candid discussion about his exciting life is free. Click here to register.
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Weston’s beloved Jolantha celebrates St. Patrick’s Day:
(Photo/Hans Wilhelm)
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And finally … though the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, was officially ratified in 1865, it took 130 more years for Mississippi’s formal approval. It happened on this day in 1995.
