...to 54.2 percent of adults across the United States. Data show that Lyme, Essex and Old Saybrook are the towns with the highest percentage of fully vaccinated individuals in the state. Old Lyme, Guilford, East Lyme and Madison also placed in the top 10. As an incentive for young people...
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...to Old Saybrook and will not affect other towns nor set a precedent if a similar project proposed in another town. The Gateway approval came one day after the Old Saybrook Planning Commission approved the project in a 3-2 vote. On March 22, the Old Saybrook Zoning Commission approved a...
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...key in being able to have in-person school. “We weren’t battling staff members to come back, they were eager to come back,” said Neviaser. Old Saybrook, which opened fully in September, also pointed to the willingness of teachers as the reason they’ve been able to be in-person. “I am very...
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...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...
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OLD SAYBROOK — In a three to two vote, the Planning Commission has approved an application for a special exception for Smoke on the Water, a 300-seat outdoor restaurant to be created with customized food trailers at the former Dock and Dine property on College Ave. “[The property] needs to...
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OLD SAYBROOK — Smoke on the Water, a 300-seat outdoor restaurant slated for the former Dock and Dine property on College Ave., hit an obstacle Monday night when the Architectural Review Board agreed that the project application was incomplete and asked for a landscape plan that complied with regulations, elevations...
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...percent of students claiming a religious exemption, seven are Montessori schools and 12 are religiously-affiliated. Marci Martindale, head of school at The Children’s Tree Montessori School in Old Saybrook, told CT Examiner that the legislation would have a “tremendous” impact on the school. Of the roughly 80 children attending the...
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OLD SAYBROOK — The town’s Police Commission voted 5-2 on Monday night not to pursue an investigation into the conduct of Chief of Police Michael Spera in response to allegations made by former officers in the Old Saybrook Police Department. Alfred “Chub” Wilcox made a motion to request that the...
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OLD SAYBROOK — Smoke on the Water, a 300-seat outdoor restaurant slated for the former waterfront site of Dock & Dine, received the first of three necessary regulatory approvals at Monday night’s meeting of the town’s Zoning Commission. The Zoning Commission unanimously approved a zoning text amendment that will allow...
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...inside the radius, then will all Industrial districts allow 8-30g appeals? 3. By what metric will the success of this Bill be judged? More housing built, maybe denser housing than before but it may not result in more affordable housing. Old Saybrook’s TOD Incentive Housing Development of 186 units included...
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OLD SAYBROOK — A zoning text amendment change is one of three approvals needed for Smoke on the Water, an outdoor restaurant proposed for the former Dock and Dine site at 145 College St. Christina Costa, zoning enforcement officer for the town, said the text amendment on the Zoning Commission...
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OLD SAYBROOK — The proposal for Smoke on the Water, a 300-seat outdoor restaurant slated for the site of the former Dock & Dine at 145 College St, has attracted significant public attention, both positive and negative, as the project works its way through the town’s approval process for zoning...
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...said David Saunders, chef of Marker 37, a restaurant under construction on Railroad Ave. at Chester Marina. Saunders, who has been the chef of Saybrook Soup and Sandwich Co. since 2010, said his new venture, named for its location on the Connecticut RIver, will feature a “contemporary aquatic” menu with...
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About a dozen days ago I stood across the counter from owner Paul Kozey at Walt’s Food Market in Old Saybrook and asked for a whole flat-cut brisket — the relatively lean portion with the familiar boxy shape separated from the odd-shaped point. Cooked sous vide for 10 hours at...
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...rental units, which were also approved. He later sold the project to Hope Partnership and the Caleb Group. HOPE Partnership President Dave Carswell estimated the project will break ground in 2022. The organization was established in 2003 and opened Ferry Crossing in Old Saybrook with 16 townhouse units in 2011....
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OLD SAYBROOK — The town’s Board of Selectmen approved a $47,187,717 budget for fiscal year 2022, an increase of $167,292, or .36% over last year. First Selectman Carl Fortuna said the town’s stable financial situation allowed Old Saybrook to project a slight decrease in the mill rate — from its...
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...State Rep. Devin Carney, R-Old Saybrook, to place the Connecticut Pilot Commission within the Department of Transportation for administrative purposes only and that the salary of the department employee assigned to the port authority be paid by the DOT. Somers’ and Carney’s bill overlaps with the Osten (et al.) bill...
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...another request from previous years that has been given new urgency by the pandemic. “We are going to see gaps with many students who are not doing well with remote learning,” said Newton. Jan Peruccio, superintendent of schools of Old Saybrook, said that the school was planning to add a...
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...Saybrook — and one in Westerly, Rhode Island were part of the settlement that included 78 stations across the country. As part of the settlement, Amtrak agreed to fix problems of accessibility, and pay $2.25 million into a fund paying out claims to people with disabilities who were harmed by...
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OLD SAYBROOK — The town’s Police Commission voted 6 to 1 on Monday night to ask Chief of Police Michael Spera to compile a public report on the number of officers who have left the police department in the past 11 years. The request was in response to a Jan....
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OLD SAYBROOK — Two restauranteurs are proposing to open a seasonal outdoor restaurant using towable food trailers at the former Dock & Dine property at 145 College St near the mouth of the Connecticut River. “Essentially they’re like trailers, like a food truck hall, but the new ones are very...
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OLD SAYBROOK — The town’s police commission has decided not to take action on a complaint from a former sergeant in the Old Saybrook Police Department who requested in a letter that the commission investigate what he called a “toxic and hostile work environment.” The commission voted 5-2 to not...
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OLD LYME — In response to concerns from the maritime community concerning vertical waterway clearance, Amtrak has redesigned a portion of a new bridge that will replace the 1907 bascule bridge that extends across the Connecticut River between Old Saybrook and Old Lyme. The vertical clearance underneath the existing bridge...
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OLD SAYBROOK — The Old Saybrook Police Commission voted 5-2 to approve a budget of $5,333,360 for the town’s police department on Monday night — an increase of $95,088 over last year. The draft budget will next be sent to the town’s board of selectmen for a final vote. The...
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...on their Own Terms by Julia Werth and Emilia Otte Lamont Designates $2.5 Million to Rent Assistance for Undocumented Immigrants by Julia Werth Officers Say Toxic Environment Drives Departures from Old Saybrook Police by Emilia Otte Nursing Home Deaths in Old Saybrook Point to Deeper Policy and Care Concerns Across...
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...between Old Lyme and Old Saybrook. The 63-hour closures — which will be scheduled midweek from Monday to Thursday to minimize impacts to tourist traffic — will allow deck-replacement work that would otherwise be impossible. Construction also will be adapted to accommodate weekend Broadway shows at the historic Goodspeed Opera...
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...day for us, we might have 15 people.” Courtney Brooks, the owner of Saybrook Soul Sweat, a hot yoga studio located in Old Saybrook, agrees. She said that small yoga studios like hers shouldn’t be placed in the same category as “big box gyms.” This sweeping categorization has had serious...
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This reporter claims she was given information about illegal activity on behalf of cops in Old Saybrook. Did she report these crimes to the state’s attorney as she should? Did either of the ex-cops sign an affidavit or contact the state’s attorney as they would legally be required to? Does...
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...for office and retail are currently under 5%, that is expected to grow to 20% in 2021 as leases come due. There is only one apartment for rent in Old Lyme; there is pent-up demand. Newer apartments in East Lyme and Old Saybrook have very high occupancy and rents that...
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...9, Lucey said a friend fishing off Old Saybrook reported seeing what looked like millions of bunker jumping out of the water, and landing “like a giant rainstorm.” Bunker spawn in the Chesapeake in February and March, make their way north to the Gulf of Maine in the spring, then...
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