...to the bill, all of which failed. One amendment raised by State Rep. Greg Howard, R-Stonington, would have expanded law enforcement’s ability to search vehicles if they suspect marijuana use, which failed 81-53 after Democrats raised concerns about racial profiling and clarified that officers are allowed to stop anyone driving...
More
Madison is hiring two new teachers for the fall. East Lyme needs two kindergarten teachers, two second grade teachers, a social worker and six paraeducators. Stonington plans to hire at least 20 teachers, tutors and interventionists. Region 4 and Guilford are hiring permanent substitutes. Old Saybrook is hiring temporary therapists,...
More
What started off years ago as a relatively uncontroversial proposal to turn an abandoned gravel quarry located in North Stonington into a 9.9 megawatt solar project, has shifted to a plan to clearcut 44 acres of forestland — North Stonington Solar Park is latest example of friction in Connecticut between...
More
...should not include new tax increases, especially with the amount of federal Covid relief Connecticut has received. As always, constituents are free to reach out to my State Capitol office with any questions or concerns on state issues at Greg.Howard@housegop.ct.gov Greg Howard State Representative 43rd District: Stonington and North Stonington...
More
...– similar to what Stonington does now — but the idea proved too expensive. Eventually, Needleman, who also sits as state senator and co-chair of the Energy and Technology Committee, expects a separate bin for curbside pickup to become more common. He said the legislature is working to open more...
More
...dollars will also be directed toward academic tutors, literacy and math intervention at the high school, special education, offsetting the cafeteria deficit and constructing seven temporary “outdoor classrooms” with tents and seating. Stonington “Don’t go into next year with a deficit mindset. Kids will surprise you,” Mary Anne Bruder, the...
More
...feel safer returning to the workplace. Businesses are also highlighting the safety of their workplaces in job postings, Zane said, in hopes of ensuring more confidence. Andrew Field, owner of Noah’s Restaurant in Stonington, said that as a father of two children in elementary school, he knows that trying to...
More
...and they have been remarkable for the entire year.” Teachers in other districts expressed more reluctance. In Stonington, a survey taken at the end of February found that between 84 and 87 percent of teachers at each of the district’s schools wanted to remain in the hybrid model. Stonington superintendent...
More
...to have their prom,” she said. Verrilli even started a petition in an attempt to convince the administration that students like her should go to prom. It just seems unfair, she said, that she can’t attend the big event while remote learners in Old Saybrook, Region 4 and Stonington still...
More
MYSTIC — The kitchen was in a groove on a recent Thursday night turning out dish after dish — small and large, across a tightly-woven menu — spot-on. Roast chicken, potatoes, salt, jus, baby lettuce. Roasted maitake mushroom, cashew cream, spicy oil, garlic and ginger chips. A crudo of Stonington...
More
NORTH STONINGTON — The Connecticut Siting Council will hold a public hearing for a proposed 47-acre solar project in the town that has drawn scrutiny from residents and town officials who have questioned whether the residential site is suitable for a large solar development. Nashville-based Silicon Ranch has proposed building...
More
...personal research, they are very afraid of the vaccines.” Pamela Wilkinson, director of North Stonington Christian Academy, said her school currently enrolls about 50 students. According to state data, 25 percent claim a religious exemption. Wilkinson, like Loomer, said that the number of parents asking for an exemption is very...
More
...adds charm to the area.” Lisa Konicki, president of the Ocean Community Chamber of Commerce, said restaurants along the shoreline will benefit greatly from the legislation, as the standard paperwork and regulations can be “a tremendous barrier” to outdoor dining. She shared the story of one restaurant owner in Stonington...
More
...incentivizes solar energy through tax breaks that allows commercial solar facilities to avoid paying municipal property taxes, which really hurts our cities and towns, especially Stonington and Lebanon. The intention is to ensure larger commercial facilities paid their fair share of property taxes. Instead of just taking up this bill...
More
...40 people registered for the baseball season, half of them from East Lyme, and the other half coming from anywhere from Madison to North Stonington to Preston. “We’re covering a pretty big geographical area,” Putnam said. “That was our focus and our intent when we built the field, we wanted...
More
STONINGTON — The Stonington Board of Education on Wednesday night asked Superintendent Van Riley to create a plan that would bring all grades back to in-person learning as soon as possible. The plan comes in response to demands from parents that the schools reopen, despite teachers and paraeducators asking to...
More
STONINGTON — Kirstin Valdez Quade wasn’t planning to write a novel but a few characters from her short stories wouldn’t let her go. One of her short stories, “The Five Wounds,” was published in the New Yorker in 2009 and was included in her collection of short stories, “Night at...
More
...may be tillable cropland, Cole said. “Loss of that acreage really starts to add up, and is incredibly impactful moving forward,” Cole said. There are currently six applications before the Connecticut Siting Council seeking to place solar arrays on prime farmland – though one is for Stonington’s Elmridge Golf Course,...
More
...well as Breakwater in Stonington and Go Fish and Steak Loft in Mystic. The concept would allow a new restaurant to be “built” on the 2.23-acre site that is located in a floodplain with an elevation of four feet, which would otherwise require constructing a building at a 13-foot elevation...
More
STONINGTON — “The whole question of who Baldwin was writing for and about, and who can write for and about him, is an ongoing one,” Nicholas Boggs said. “He lived such a profoundly interracial life … so writing and thinking about Baldwin is a good space to have a dialogue...
More
...and the person responsible for developing the system, Groton’s database is patterned on a system that Kizer helped develop in Stonington in 2017. Known as CASS (Citizens with Autism Safety System), Stonington’s system is a GIS-based system that stores information about individuals in the community who are on the autism...
More
...UP Fitness, a privately-owned gym in Stonington. At the start of the pandemic, Marr said, UP Fitness had to completely change its business model. They relocated to a much smaller facility and reduced their services to private classes of 10-15 people and one-on-one personal training. During the summer, they held...
More
...Sailing, which has locations in Stonington and New London, has also tried to provide activities for the kids that go beyond just schoolwork – things like geocaching, sailing, seal watching and excursions to tide pools. “Our main strength is to be out in the environment,” said Program Director Megan Strand. ...
More
“March” previously appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review STONINGTON — “What I say instead of ‘I write’ every day is ‘I scribble,’ which to me lowers the stakes,” said poet Jennifer Grotz. Grotz has published three books of poetry and is at work on her fourth. “I like to just scribble...
More
...says that their production levels have remained the same as always — albeit with COVID precautions. “It’s a little more challenging, you have to sanitize and everything, but other than that, we’re keeping pretty busy.” Facchini said that the station, which serves Groton, Ledyard, Stonington, North Stonington, and Voluntown, occupies...
More
...separated from that stream.” Trail camera images show the difference in flow at Pendleton Hill Brook in North Stonington between June 20 (high flow), and Aug. 27 (low flow). The stream is not passable for fish at the low level shown in the August photo. (Courtesy of DEEP) The cameras...
More
I just hope that voters understand that what’s good for teachers is good for kids. I work in the district of Stonington. Which you know, is — how should I put it politely — it’s fairly well off. We do okay. You know, we’re not really hurting for funds. But...
More
Against a backdrop of Republican gains in state and federal races across the country, and gains for Democrats on the state level in Connecticut, Republican Greg Howard’s victory over incumbent State Rep. Kate Rotella, D-Stonington, was the exception in southeast Connecticut, where voters largely chose to keep their incumbent representatives...
More
The police accountability bill is at the forefront of the race between first-term incumbent State Rep. Kate Rotella, a Stonington Democrat, and her challenger Greg Howard, a Republican and longtime Stonington police detective. Howard won the endorsement of the Republican Town Committee after Shaun Mastroianni withdrew from the race in...
More
...percent or higher. In Chester, for example, 83 percent of the people who requested absentee ballots have returned them; in Stonington, 79 percent of the absentee ballots issued have already been returned. The Connecticut Mirror reports that statewide 70 percent of the more than 455,000 people who requested an absentee...
More