...allows students to see nature in their own backyards. As for the lectures, they will continue to be held in venues such as the Old Lyme Town Hall, Essex Meadows and the Lyme Art Association. This fall, one of the lectures will be held on the campus of Connecticut College,...
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OLD LYME — With only five days left before the deadline to submit a petition, Tim Griswold has begun collecting signatures to appear on the ballot in November for first selectman of Old Lyme. Griswold, who previously served as first selectman for 14 years until losing a 2011 election to...
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...list and try to preserve our spot for next year and see what happens.” Hawk’s Nest The neighboring beach associations — Miami Beach, Old Colony Beach and Old Lyme Shores — each have a separate WPCA and plan to install sewer systems. It is likely that Old Lyme’s Sound View...
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...of Old Lyme Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) to place as much of the entire cost as possible onto the properties, restaurants, and businesses that make up Old Lyme’s Sound View neighborhood. Alternately conciliatory and aggrieved, Pappalardo made efforts not to personalize an issue that had clearly become for many...
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...said “were inappropriate and unacceptable given the importance of this board.” According to David Bednarz, press secretary and director of digital media for Lamont’s office, the actions referred to the authority’s purchase of artwork in 2016 created by Reemsnyder’s daughter for the authority offices in Old Saybrook. “The governor was...
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...to Prendergast by email on Friday, but had not received a reply as of Monday evening. Hicks said the Clean Water Funds are not reserved for projects that are on hold and that Old Lyme will be eligible when the project is funded. “We can’t hold the money at the...
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To the Editor: Re “Architect Chosen, CT Audubon Plans Center in Old Lyme” (News, July 8). The Connecticut Examiner has described in detail the plans for a new site for the Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center, which as outgrown its current space on Halls Road. The 1.1-acre site was purchased...
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To the Editor: Re “Architect Chosen, CT Audubon Plans Center in Old Lyme” (News, July 8) My wife and I recently built a house on Sandpiper Point Road, two lots over from RTP Estuary Center’s proposed new headquarters on Ferry Road, and also bordering on open space property and Shippee...
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...get every two years.” Towns across southeastern Connecticut have reported increased difficulties with operating a mostly volunteer government. Several towns – including Clinton and Old Lyme – are unable to fill all the positions on their boards and commissions. Other towns, like Essex, have gradually transitioned much of their former...
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OLD LYME — For artists and art lovers, the lawn, the gardens, the light, and the views at the Florence Griswold Museum are iconic, hallowed by the footsteps and brushstrokes of the Old Lyme art colony and the many painters who have followed and continue to flock to the site....
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On August 13, the Town of Old Lyme will vote to decide whether to borrow $9.5 million to finance the installation of sewers for commercial and residential properties in Sound View, and an adjacent neighborhood just north of Shore Road called “Miscellaneous Town Area B.” It’s our understanding that state...
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...Old Lyme Soup Kitchen and Pantry said. Throughout the volunteer concerns, Steve Jungkeit, pastor of First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, has said that the ten-year partnership between the two organizations is important for successfully meeting the mission of both. “We’re grateful to be working with Amy Hollis and the...
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...any restrictions on town-owned property,” he said. Joseph Halloran, chair of the Old Lyme Shores Beach Association WPCA, also spoke in favor of the application and said the town would join the three beach associations pump house. “Old Lyme will join the three beaches in this pump station once the...
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IN THE REGION — The Lyme Land Conservation Trust (LLCT) holds 69 conservation easements. At least once each year, one of 42 volunteer stewards inspects every property, and documents any changes with photographs and in writing, said Sue Cope, LLCT’s environmental director. The Town of Lyme has not previously conducted...
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...paid by the town as a whole, thus obligating Sound View property owners not only to pay 100% of the town’s share at Sound View, but also a share of the costs for projects elsewhere in town. The concern of Sound View residents is well founded. Jim Lampos Old Lyme...
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...a town-wide referendum on August 13. At least 80 people attended the second of two informational sessions organized by the town’s Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) at the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School. On July 15, the Town of Old Lyme signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding with the three private...
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...beach associations. Written on the Town of Lyme letterhead, the letter was addressed to Miami Beach Association and Miami Beach Association WPCA, Old Lyme Shores Beach Association and Old Lyme Shores Beach Association WPCA and Old Colony Beach Club Association and Old Colony Beach Club Association WPCA. “Per recent discussions”...
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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....
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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...
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...the world around us, made more beautiful by creative spirits of artists, writers and musicians. In this regard, Old Lyme has been fortunate. At the south end of Lyme Street stands the Congregational Church, where Musical Masterworks performs five concert series every year. At the north end of Lyme Street...
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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...
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...add pollution runoff into the Connecticut River not to mention the over-loaded septic system of this large facility. It seems as though they are contrary to their own objectives as an organization and of those of the state who want to preserve the Lower Connecticut Valley. Julie Dunbar Old Lyme...
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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,...
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...a contractor for the Wildlife Management Institute at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). In place of a balanced woodland with different stages of growth, the state is now almost completely older forest. “Before there were beavers, fires and hurricanes that would naturally destroy old forest and...
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To the Editor: My wife and I live a couple of parcels away from the proposed Audubon Center on Ferry Road. We moved here four years ago because we wanted to live in a nice, quiet neighborhood in Old Lyme close to town. We found the perfect spot here. We...
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...New London Day on July 1, but no other warning or information given to any Lyme or Old Lyme residents, departments or organizations. “In the past, I always was told beforehand. Yesterday, I found out after the fact,” said Don Bugbee, the director of Parks and Recreation in Old Lyme....
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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...
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...Museum on June 30 that introduced his show, opening on July 6 at the Cooley Gallery, located at 25 Lyme St. in Old Lyme. The show, representing work from 1989 to the present, is bursting with large flowers drawn in black ink on white paper, sometimes with a blue-gray background....
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...in Old Lyme. Rocherolle, along with his wife Eugenie Rocherolle, watched the water in their backyard rise more than a foot in the last two years. The slightly damp bog that their dog used to run around in is now completely flooded. The plants have begun to rot, and two...
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After being referred to the Lymes Juvenile Review Board, one boy chose to do his mandated community service at the Volunteer Fire Department in Old Lyme. “He loved it so much that he became a volunteer firefighter after his time was done,” said Mary Seidner, the director of the Lymes’...
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