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Vehicles and a bicyclist share the road along Texas Street in Downtown Fairfield, Friday.
Pilot homeless program, workforce housing part of Fairfield’s future Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — Mayor Catherine Moy gives the city “C” grades, or worse, when it comes to dealing with the homeless and quality-oflife issues. She thinks the city has MOY done better in setting the course for the downtown area and when it comes to providing housing, but emphasized the need for more workforce housing options. The report card follows the City Council’s recent two-day retreat to look at existing priorities and policies, and considering a new agenda moving forward. “Our focus has not changed as far as priorities,” Moy said in an interview at the downtown Coffee Bar. But Moy said the city is changing how it will approach its top
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priorities – homelessness, quality-of-life issues, housing and the downtown – but some of those changes, she admits, will likely come with a price tag. That includes a pilot program in which the city is considering paying the county to send physicians, psychiatrists and social workers into homeless camps to begin treatment for substance addiction and mental health issues. “What we are hoping is we can get these people healthy enough so that they will accept more services,” Moy said. “It’s a gamble,
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WASHINGTON — Three flying objects were downed over North America in as many days and another was reportedly spotted over a Chinese port city, showing how “unidentified aerial phenomena” are keeping the world on edge since entering the international mainstream in the past two weeks. U.S. fighter jets brought down objects over Alaska and Canada on Friday and Saturday, and another was taken down on Sunday over Lake Huron in Michigan. While the Biden administration said the high-altitude craft brought down on Feb. 4 was a Chinese spying balloon, details on the latest objects remain sparse. With shootdowns over the U.S. and Canada coming at a pace of one per day, the incidents prompted renewed pledges by lawmakers in Washington to seek greater U.S. readiness against the overflights
and a measure of bipartisan praise for the Biden administration’s military actions. The White House said Sunday it’s too early to definitively describe the second and third objects. The one taken down over Canada appeared to be a small, cylindrical object, Defense Minister Anita Anand said. Both were flying at about 40,000 feet, while the latest object was spotted about at 20,000 feet – altitudes that were assessed to pose risks to civilian flights. Authorities are working to retrieve the debris from all three downings. In China, the news outlet The Paper reported Sunday that authorities were ready to shoot down an unidentified object over waters near Qingdao, home to the Jianggezhuang Naval Base. It hosts ballistic and nuclear attack submarines, the country’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, and is the command headquarters of the See Objects, Page A7
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because no one here has done that before.” The intervention work would be coupled with the existing city Homeless Engagement and Response Team, Homeless Intervention Team and Community Action Team. The mayor, however, thinks more than ever before the council has the right people to get the work done. She expects new council members Doug Carr and K. Patrice Williams – both with extensive See Program, Page A7
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Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Feb. 5.
Russians step up attacks on Ukraine as war’s anniversary nears dpa correspondents
KYIV, Ukraine/ MOSCOW — Ukrainian forces are coming under increasing pressure in the heavily contested city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, the site of some of the bloodiest battles to date, as the Russian invasion is 12 days away from its first anniversary. The head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner claimed on Sunday that his private army has captured a suburb of Bakhmut amid heavy fighting. Ukrainian officials have not confirmed this. Yevgeny Prigozhin said
his mercenary units would go on to take Bakhmut itself, about four miles away. The monthslong battle over Bakhmut has been particularly fierce and costly for both Russian forces and Ukrainian defenders. The British Ministry of Defence tweeted, citing daily figures released by the Ukrainian General Staff, that Russia “has likely suffered its highest rate of casualties since the first week of the invasion of Ukraine.” Although London could not verify the figures it believes the information is “likely accurate.”
It said average Russian casualties for the last seven days were 824 per day, more than four times the rate reported in June-July. But “Ukraine also continues to suffer a high attrition rate,” it added. Reasons for the increased casualty rate likely included a “lack of trained personnel, coordination, and resources across the front,” the ministry wrote, pointing to Russia’s failure to seize the strategic town of Bakhmut as an example. Apart from hefty casualties See Ukraine, Page A7
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