OLD LYME — Under earlier rules governing a $1.6 million Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) grant given to Old Lyme in 2015 for dredging, the town will be able to redirect $256,000 of funding unused for the original project toward a plan to build a ramp and platform on the...
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...percent increase you’d get laughed out of the park, but that’s what we’re talking about here,” Fortuna said. “The good news is we can plan for it.” Or at least they can plan for it starting next year. Old Saybrook, just like Old Lyme and most other Connecticut towns, passed...
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Old Lyme — Raised aloft on a sail mast improvised as sturdy dowel, a 13-feet-tall by 18-feet-wide American flag with 34 stars fluttered in the breeze on Lyme Street as the Memorial Day parade streamed by on Monday morning. Constructed in 1861, the flag belongs to Polly Merrill, of Old...
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Lovely weather for Old Lyme’s Memorial Day Parade...
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...peppers, eggplant — all that stuff,” said Susie Kelly, of Old Lyme Landscape in Old Lyme, where rows and rows of vegetable plants were on display, ready for customers to plant in their gardens. “The farmer’s almanac always says the last full moon in May you can have a frost...
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...“It is really a privilege to be part of the post,” Griswold said. “I get more credit than I deserve, I have a really good bunch of people.” Griswold was born and bred in Old Lyme. He was supposed to go to Choate, then Yale, then marry the wealthy girl...
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...this would be accomplished before the end of the current legislative session on June 5. The Connecticut Examiner is based in Old Lyme, but in our coverage and editorials, we will not play favorites among the towns of southeast Connecticut. So, we ask, does it make any sense that the...
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...reception, on June 30th at 3 p.m. at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, followed by a sneak preview of the exhibition at 5 p.m. at the Cooley Gallery, 25 Lyme St. There will be an opening for the exhibition at the Cooley Gallery on July 6th, 5-7 p.m....
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...State Trooper assigned to Old Lyme. “There were a lot of arrests on the beach this past year,” said State Trooper and acting Chief of Police of Old Lyme, Greg Hunter. “I stay down at the beach to make people think about it, even an empty police car helps.” According...
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Kelly Enoch, an Old Lyme resident, will take the place of Dr. Patricia Downes as principal of Mile Creek School on July 1. “After a long and extremely thorough process that began back in February, we are very excited to welcome Kelly Enoch as the new Principal of Mile Creek...
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...the end of the Oyster River is from septic systems. In Old Lyme, on the other hand, where the soil has more organic material, water at the cove at the end of the Black Hall River shows pollution that is 28% fertilizer and 39% septic. East Lyme is on the...
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...Old Lyme versus how many moved into Lyme, so our share or percentage of that Region 18 budget went up,” he said. Future expenses Upcoming financial considerations for Old Lyme were $1,250,000 for repayment of the library project, a portion of the total $1.75 million voters approved in July 2018....
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...was such a high amount of nicotine in them. We thought it was just like juice,” said Eveliz Fuentes, a sophomore at Lyme-Old Lyme High School. Both the Lyme-Old Lyme Prevention Coalition and REACH have worked to reduce this awareness gap. At each presentation they emphasize that one pod...
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...Hadlyme-Chester Ferry and the river. Only two houses were visible from our side of the cove and none across the way, just woods. The first was an old yellow house with multi-paned horizontal windows that were common to old Connecticut houses redone in the thirties and forties. The other was...
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...a goal of 2/3 local coverage and 1/3 regional coverage. At the time of our launch, we will be the only newspaper in the region that will offer ‘hard’ news coverage on daily basis for Lyme and Old Lyme, but we will write our stories as much as possible to...
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...11:30 A.M., Ken Kitchings talks jazz as world renowned artists perform every weekend at The Side Door in Old Lyme. 6:00 p.m., Jeff Cohen anchors CRaVe Sports Talk to review regional sports and the major sports headlines with a local take…and a lot of fun. Thursday 9:00 a.m., Library Chat...
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...part directed toward urban, poor and disadvantaged districts, to relatively (though hardly uniformly) well-to-do and rural Lyme-Old Lyme. In meetings with the board of Hope Partnership last year, I learned that the affordable housing proposed near Exit 70 in Old Lyme was not aimed at the semi-transient families moving between...
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...was promised a seat on the Connecticut Port Authority, but if he gets the seat, he will only be able to vote on issues affecting New London, despite the fact that towns like Old Lyme have a seat and a vote on every issue. “You always have to eat a...
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OLD LYME — With the start of the 2019-2020 school year, Center School will offer five pre-kindergarten classes, enough to accommodate interested parents with pre-kindergarten age children in Lyme-Old Lyme as well as additional out-of-district students. The new program is expected to cost district taxpayers $180,000 in renovations and $208,000...
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...reception, on June 30th at 3 p.m. at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, followed by a sneak preview of the exhibition at 5 p.m. at the Cooley Gallery, 25 Lyme St. There will be an opening for the exhibition at the Cooley Gallery on July 6th, 5-7 p.m....
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...George James, an 89-year-old resident of Old Lyme who helped start the initiative with McCulloch. James is a current member of the Conservation Commission, he walks and grooms trails throughout town each morning with his dog Holly. The Old Lyme Planning and Open Space Commissions have unanimously supported the acquisition....
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...top-down planning often does great harm to communities, and frequently fails, because it fails to account for local and vernacular knowledge. What is the thread that ties together my academic work, my opposition to high-speed rail planning, my critique of plans for a housing project in Old Lyme, and our...
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OLD LYME — One possible solution for encouraging development on Halls Road in Old Lyme, but still providing the town with control over aesthetics, could be the creation of a “village district.” On May 13, the Halls Road Improvements Committee presented ideas for the future of Halls Road, a commercial...
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OLD LYME — After 43 years of providing students with a classical education in the arts, Lyme Academy of Fine Arts will close its doors this September unless a partner institution comes forward with funding. Established in 1976 by sculptor Elisabeth Gordon Chandler, the school was accredited to grant Bachelor...
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OLD LYME — The interior walls may change, but the footprint of the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library will remain the same after its $3.05 million phased renovation scheduled to begin in September or October 2019 and to finish in Spring 2020. Along with hiring Lerner, Ladds and Bartels...
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...prizes. Mountain bikers (Credit: CT Examiner/Werth) Riders of all ages come out for the Tour de Lyme. Jack Schroeder, a 13-year-old Madison native, was excited before his seventh mountain bike race and first time at the Tour de Lyme. Schroeder started riding when he was 10, at the time he...
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CT Examiner senior reporter Cate Hewitt reports from the Annual Town Budget Meeting in Old Lyme, that Old Lyme’s budget passed unanimously. In addition, the vote to acquire the McCulloch Preserve for open space was also unanimous in favor. Robert Doyen, was named Old Lyme Citizen of the Year...
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