...unit, the household would allow an income of $77,376 – about as much as two people working full time at $18.50 an hour – and the maximum rent would be $1,589 a month. Leif Klein, a long-time Madison resident who recently moved to Clinton, and one of the principals of...
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...There will be a public hearing about the regulations on December 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the Clinton Town Hall. The public is also welcome to send written comments through the eRegulations system, via mail to Justin Davis, DEEP Marine Fisheries Office, PO Box 719, Old Lyme, CT 06371 or...
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CLINTON — Town residents Justin Teague and his partner, Carolyn Dickson, love to vacation in Japan. They’ve gone three times since 2015, traveling through Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Kobe on the country’s bullet train. But there’s another purpose to their travels besides pure enjoyment — stocking up on Japanese...
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...and foremost, the election results may be a little misread. When I was getting involved in politics in the early 1990s, there was a huge backswing after Bill Clinton was elected president and won both houses of Congress. That December, the Republican won a special election in Georgia, and Republicans...
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CLINTON — While retaining a Republican majority, the town council has shifted from a three-party to a two-party body after incumbent Eric Bergman, a Green Party member, was not re-elected on Tuesday. Two Democrats Carrie Allen and Chris Passante, and one Republican, Tom Hollinger, were elected to fill the three...
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...we could look at.” “We know we’ve got seniors on fixed incomes that are having trouble staying in Salem,” he said. CLINTON — Only a few candidates are at the polls around midday, but voters are still coming in steadily. Moderator Kathy Hand said there had been a steady flow...
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CLINTON — The Board of Education voted unanimously on Monday to create a subcommittee devoted to looking at personnel issues in the district. Board Chair Erica Gelven proposed the idea for the subcommittee in response to the concerns raised over the last two weeks regarding complaints by former teachers in...
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...were competitive this year. Sharon Uricchio, the town clerk in Clinton, said that the elections for four-year positions on the Town Council might have attracted more people to vote. The distribution of absentee ballot applications in certain targeted towns, however, seems to also be playing a role. These mass distributions...
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...the federal Stewart B. McKinney Wildlife Refuge. “It’s a gull!” he calls out with a burst of exuberance. “A herring gull!” Lender is a longtime public radio journalist and Clinton resident specializing in wildlife stories that have sent him all over the planet to encounter untold species of animals and...
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...were on the Board of Selectmen. To what extent is this run about elevating the Green Party in Guilford? I’ve seen examples of Greens having success in many towns where they run local candidates, like Clinton, Windham, and New London. Those towns all have had elected Greens and have been...
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To the Editor: As a 35 year veteran of the teaching profession (retired) as well as a local union president (East Haven Education Association) for over 25 years, I feel the need to respond to some of the information put forth in your article regarding Clinton teachers complaints. Let me...
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...Under the proposed rules, what would stop a retail business with reduced setbacks, like the new CVS on the Main Street in Clinton, from simply opening laterally onto a parking lot adjacent to the road? Why are there detailed rules for bakeries and bed and breakfasts, for example, but not...
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CLINTON —Members of the Education Association of Clinton packed a Board of Education meeting on Monday in response to allegations from former and current teachers in Clinton about a hostile work environment in the district and criticism directed at the district’s union representative. On Sunday evening, Michael Meizies, president of...
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...number of teachers in Clinton public schools, unexpectedly, neither Dimon nor O’Donnell could offer any rebuttal. It’s that failure to respond – and this subsequent public campaign of intimidation based on outright falsehoods – which convinces us that there is something deeply wrong in Clinton. We stand by our reporting....
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...family, our union representatives, and our entire education community and we say enough is enough. Stop the attacks against our dedicated educators and our union. We all deserve better. Thank you. Michael Meizies, President Education Association of Clinton Meizies has been employed for 23 years with the Clinton Public Schools...
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...comment on individual cases due to privacy but you tell the angry, one-sided stories of disgruntled former employees that likely had significant allegations that were investigated and dealt with professionally? Shame on you. Kristin Cafferty Clinton, CT Cafferty is a 27-year art educator and head teacher at East Haven Academy...
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To the Editor: The Board of the Clinton PTA is incredibly disappointed with the recent article [Oct.16, “After Tragedy, Clinton Teachers Claim Age Discrimination, Hostile Work Environment“] in the CT Examiner. This reporter sensationalized the passing of one of our beloved teachers, and for no clear reason tied it into...
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...New Haven and the unions are totally different here,” said Greg Garb, a former math department head at Clinton’s public high school. “In Clinton it felt like the administration ran the union.” A Freedom of Information request for documents relating to complaints made against the administration over the last five...
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...For these values to take root in our towns, cities, state, and nation, we must facilitate partnerships with like-minded folk. It is only as we lock arms and put our hand to the plow that we will see a bright new day emerge. Brendan Saunders Chairman, Clinton Republican Town Committee...
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...the direction that advanced manufacturing was headed toward. “We went to industry and said, ‘What do we need?’ And we listened very closely,” said Carson. While nearby Clinton has a series of courses for students interested in manufacturing, Carson said that Westbrook’s small size meant that the district needed to...
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...money for itself as well as the players. When, seven years ago, the university wanted to ingratiate itself with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who seemed likely to become the country’s next president, the UConn Foundation picked up the phone and from just one donor collected the $250,000 Clinton outrageously...
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...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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