...of the lower Connecticut River Valley from Portland to Old Saybrook, including Chester, Clinton, Colchester, Deep River, East Haddam, Essex, Haddam, Lyme, Westbrook, and Goff’s hometown of East Hampton. While balancing his State Senate campaign with his full-time job as an electronics technician for a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, his class...
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...across the country as a result. The focus has always been the top of the ticket and the race for President. Since 2020, it has been mainly Trump supporters concerned about dubious results in about half a dozen states. However, rewind to 2016 and it was the Clinton campaign fostering...
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...gradually becoming more and more proud of themselves,” he said. “I see Liz and everybody else so proud of being Sicilian.” Bazazi said her grandfather, Carmelo Mazzotta, came over from Sicily and settled in Middletown, in a boarding house on Clinton Avenue. Her grandmother, Philomena “Minnie” Bellobuono, who lived across...
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CLINTON — Despite declining enrollment numbers in the district, Superintendent Maryann O’Donnell said that this was not the year to reduce staffing. In a meeting of the Finance and Facilities Committee on January 18, O’Donnell said that despite expecting a decrease of 57 students next year, the majority from the...
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...towns went even further. Old Lyme, for example, is limiting kits to people who are showing COVID-19 symptoms or have been exposed to a positive case and “need to make wise decisions about quarantining or isolating.” Clinton distributed test kits to people who indicated in online registration that they were...
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Claims of a hostile work environment in the Clinton Public Schools topped CT Examiner’s list of most-read stories of 2021, with legalizing marijuana and the mysterious death of a Lyme, CT show horse rounding out our top 3. Two stories featuring Chef Colt Taylor made our top 10, including the...
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...former health education teacher in the Clinton Public Schools, said that proper training in the health instruction, and a solid curriculum, will help teachers covering more sensitive subjects. “When talking about sensitive subjects I could always re-route it if I needed to, but this becomes difficult when people are not...
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...Clinton are considering hiring additional staff for the contact tracing. Neviaser said he was thinking of hiring someone per diem, a cost that would have to come out of the budget. At a Board of Education meeting on Dec. 6, Clinton Superintendent of Schools Maryann O’Donnell said that the district...
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CLINTON — A large increase in the number of students with a first language other than English is prompting the district to look at options for an in-district bilingual education program. According to district data, in the 2017-18 school year, Clinton had 74 students who were considered “English learners,” a...
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CLINTON – It’s a carnivorous predator that survives on the ocean floor by using its muscular foot and hard pointed shell to pry open the body of its prey and eat the soft tissue inside with its long, nose-like proboscis. And whether you call it a conch or a whelk...
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...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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...then be approved by the Regulations Review Committee of the General Assembly. Davis said the department’s goal was to have the regulations approved by May 1, 2022. 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...
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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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