OLD LYME — On Saturday, July 13, I put on a protective vest, buckled up and joined Old Lyme Police Officer Kevin Roche for his daytime shift. “I’m guessing you’ve already missed the busiest part of the day,” he said to me as soon as I was in the car. Before 9 a.m. Roche had… Keep Reading
OLD LYME — More than seven years and $14,000 of donations later, the Jonathan Glenn Court at Lymes’ Youth Service Bureau was dedicated in the memory of a Lyme-Old Lyme graduate who took his own life on December 21, 2011. The summer after Glenn’s death, several of his former classmates had the idea to honor… Keep Reading
OLD LYME — Contradictory statements from town and state agency officials have raised further doubts about the status of $256,000 in legacy state funding for the Lieutenant River project on Halls Road in Old Lyme — funds that at least one town commissioner believes were green-lighted months earlier by the Connecticut Port Authority. The funds… Keep Reading
OLD LYME — Between 1980 and today, private residents and developers donated approximately 43 conservation easements to the town of Old Lyme. The easements restrict development and use on a portion of each landowner’s property as well as specifying that the town will “vigorously enforce the conditions established.” To date, the town has yet to… Keep Reading
OLD LYME — On Monday, July 8, for a third straight year, Rogers Lake was treated with Clipper, a Flumioxazin-based herbicide meant to eradicate invasive pond weeds. What has changed this year, however, is that neither residents, nor the Parks and Recreation Department in Old Lyme, nor the Rogers Lake Authority, was given prior warning.… Keep Reading
OLD LYME — The Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center, a local affiliate of the statewide Connecticut Audubon Society, has begun planning and discussions with the town on a new 3000–4000 square foot center on a recently-purchased 1.1 acre undeveloped lot at 314 Ferry Road in Old Lyme. The site, in a residential area near the… Keep Reading
The number of beaver-related nuisance complaints filed with the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) over the past three years rose from 113 in 2016 to 163 in 2018. Another 150 complaints have already been filed this year. “Beaver complaints are definitely on the rise, and the damage they are causing can be… Keep Reading
While three chartered beach associations have already negotiated agreements to install sewers -- and the town following behind with a referendum this summer approving sewers for Sound View Beach, Hawk's Nest Beach, Inc. continues to challenge the town’s mandate to install sewers. Keep Reading
CT Examiner's Julia Werth reports on Freedom of Information law in Old Lyme, the first of a series of reports from towns across the region. Keep Reading
"At the time I observed obvious high water of Black Hall Pond encroaching on the property caused by active beavers and beaver dam at the south end of the pond." The water table has risen to the point where it has affected the existing structure's foundation bearing soils to an extent of causing the structure to be "sinking." Keep Reading
