...declining enrollment School officials in a number of districts told CT Examiner that the declines were roughly as they expected, given longer-term trends and birth rates. Madison and Clinton, for example, reported total enrollment declines despite enrolling pre-K and kindergarten class sizes similar to pre-pandemic levels. “Our enrollment numbers are...
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...top left): Alexander Lowry (D), Marisa Calvi-Rogers (D), Jason Kemp (D) and Martha Shoemaker. Democrat Jason Kemp works as a Family Relations Counselor with the Connecticut Judicial Branch, and has worked in family court and criminal court. Laura Dean-Frazier, who is unaffiliated, works in social services in Clinton and Old...
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...Last year, I spoke with Rob Derry, a Green Party police commissioner in Clinton and former police officer, and he shared some of his concerns about the idea of defunding the police. Do policy positions like that feel dissonant with the party overall? Goselin: I know folks in the Clinton...
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...Clinton has issued a voluntary evacuation order for areas south of Route 1, along with “the Kelseytown watershed area with additional emphases on Princess Pine Lane, Woods Lane, Whippoorwill Lane and Ironworks Road.” Cedar Island is under a mandatory evacuation order. East Lyme First Selectman Mark Nickerson in a video...
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...areas where children typically gather, and said she hopes municipal leaders will “build in a safe radius around locations like public parks, playgrounds, schools and libraries.” David Melillo, of Clinton Youth & Family Services, warned that public consumption of marijuana can normalize drug use for adolescents. “If kids see people...
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...These 169 towns, and 155 school districts, can make their own decisions, and have local control to make the decision about what they are going to teach in, say, Guilford, and that can be different from how they do it in Clinton. It plays well into the strength of the...
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...returns to the classroom. “I think our quarantine numbers, based on what we know, will be much lower [this year],” Martineau said at the meeting. Maryann O’Donnell, superintendent of schools in Clinton, said in an email to CT Examiner the district would use technology platforms like Google Classrooms and SeeSaw...
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CLINTON — The Democratic, Republican, and Green Parties have officially announced their municipal slates for this fall’s local elections, led by nominees for three open Town Council seats. The slates are led by candidates for open Town Council seats, for which Democrats endorsed Chris Passante, Paul Gebauer, and Carrie Allen....
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...it’s not even safe to be in a parade,” Bylone said. When one of the trucks was out for service to have its frame repaired, Colchester had to borrow one from Clinton. When a fire burned the abandoned Lincoln Lake Lodge in June, the engine that responded couldn’t get the...
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...extra nonsense?” Pappalardo said that raising parking rates would increase revenue and bring Sound View Beach into parity with area beaches. “First of all, our rates are significantly less than our neighboring towns. Misquamicut went up 50 percent on their rates, East Lyme has increased their rates, Clinton is now...
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...of $100 billion dollars. These plans include a new rail station for Hartford, the elimination of three at-grade crossings in Mystic, new rail stops along the Hartford Line for North Haven, Newington, West Hartford, and Enfield, and new rail platforms for Clinton and Madison. Service upgrades would include new direct...
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CLINTON — Jessica Flanagan is looking forward to her senior year at The Morgan School where she’ll be working on a catapult that can shoot melons across the river behind the school. Flanagan said the catapult was inherited from former engineering classes, but still needs design modifications before it’s ready...
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...on the Clinton Planning & Zoning Commission when we looked at dispensaries, and Clinton did allow for it, but it was extremely controversial. I expect that if anybody is interested in a store in Clinton, there will be robust conversation related to it. My community has gotten a lot of...
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Clinton schools are looking for public feedback on its reopening plan for the fall and how to use $1.7 million of federal dollars the town is expected to receive under the American Rescue Plan Act. Every school district in Connecticut must create a “safe return to in-person instruction” plan to...
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CLINTON — The town is making plans to strengthen its mental health and special education services at the Morgan School in response to an increase in student need for support. At a Board of Education meeting on Monday, Superintendent Maryann O’Donnell said that the partnership with the Wheeler Clinic, a...
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...the students at the high school. In an email, White said that the district was expecting $280,000 in American Rescue Plan funds, and that they were awaiting further guidance from the state before deciding how to use the money. Clinton At a board of education meeting on April 5, Superintendent...
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...is being spent. “Honestly, we’re going to have to see how good of a job we do there, because that is a place where we often fail,” Winfield said at the forum. A previous version of this story incorrectly identified State Sen. Christine Cohen’s hometown as Clinton rather than Guilford....
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...D-Clinton, who was also Clinton’s prior first selectman. Bergman said that having a town council is more “civil”, and leads to less political infighting. Goupil said that another advantage to having a town manager was continuity. A first selectman runs for re-election every two years, meaning that longer-term projects run...
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...requiring federal permits – like a trash incinerator, a sewage treatment plant or high-speed rail – the rules are already pretty clear under a doctrine known as “Environmental Justice.” That doctrine dates all the way back to 1994, when then-President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12898, “Federal Actions to Address...
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CLINTON — The Clinton Chamber of Commerce is offering $200 grants to local small businesses that are struggling to pay their monthly bills. Paul Orsini, executive director of the Chamber, said that the board decided to start fundraising for a grant program back in October, when they realized they were...
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...with the department identifies 28 officers who left the Old Saybrook Police Department between 2009 and 2020. The comparably-sized Clinton Police Department has had just 16 officers leave over the same period, according to data provided by the Clinton Police Department. Waterford, which employs nearly twice the number of officers,...
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...many of the boats. He found work within the week. “I’ve always liked boats, I like being on boats. I like making nice things for boats,” he said. “I could care less about cars, so I don’t work on cars.” He moved to Clinton in 2014 and began working at...
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CLINTON — Rob Derry was never interested in politics. From a young age, he knew he wanted to become a state trooper, just like his grandfather. For the last three decades, Derry has worked in law enforcement, as a local police officer and then a state police sergeant. Derry said...
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CLINTON — Eric Bergman, an English teacher at the Morgan School, was elected to the Clinton Town Council in November. A resident of Clinton for nearly 20 years and an active participant in local politics, he is an unsurprising choice. But Bergman ran as a Green Party candidate, making him...
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...by host Harriet Grayson Another popular show on VSCTV is Shoreline Music Monthly, which features local musicians. It’s hosted by Mark Koschwitz, a Clinton resident who started the show in 2013 after meeting a number of talented songwriters at open mic nights. “I’m trying to bring local songwriters into people’s...
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...Town Woods Road, Old Lyme, CT. The drive will last from now until November 29. The non-profit will also be hosting a virtual holiday market from November 15 through the 29. CLINTON: The Clinton Rotary Fund is hosting a drive on November 20, 21, and 22 at the Clinton Stop...
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...for just 7.57 percent of the ballots cast in 2016. Given widespread absentee voting, 351,219 more ballots were cast in person at the polls in 2016 than in 2020. In the town of Clinton, despite reports of long lines throughout the day and into the evening, voters cast 2,598 fewer...
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...list — the goal is to have a web of sidewalks that connect the area together,” he said. The town of Clinton will receive $128,205 “for a commercial façade grant program to improve exterior conditions as part of the Clinton Business Improvement Initiative,” which will require a $26,975 match from...
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...in Hartford. Howard, a popular football coach and longtime Stonington Police detective, centered his campaign on Rotella’s vote in favor of a police accountability bill in the July special session, which he called “rushed and ill-advised.” Democrat Christine Goupil will likely represent Clinton, Killingworth and Westbrook in the Connecticut House...
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...made things happen. During her tenure, Clinton moved forward. And, as a sign of her goal of strengthening Clinton rather than her own ambitions, she promoted and succeeded in changing the town’s government to a town council structure. She was proud to say she’d be the last First Selectman of...
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