Amy Bass
By Amy Bass
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News The outbreak started in a New Rochelle shul. A year later, a look at that community.
I forgot to go outside at 7 p.m. on Wednesday to clap. Honestly, until I got the email from New Rochelle City Hall a few days earlier outlining plans to mark the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 arriving in our town, I had forgotten about the clapping altogether. It feels like it was all so long…
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News Notes from the future: A view from New Rochelle, N.Y., where “social distancing” started
America, I know where you are headed, because I’m already there. We in New Rochelle, N.Y., became the experts at social distance, physical distance, early on. A “hot spot” – “New Roch-HELL” – “a problem area” – throw at us whatever you have because we can take it. Here at a forefront of the pandemic,…
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