ESSEX, CHESTER, DEEP RIVER — Almost three years after Regional School District 4 made an unfunded purchase of property for $350,000, and almost a year after the board first became aware of the deficit, the state has requested a corrective action plan from the district. That purchase was made under...
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Across Chester, Essex, Deep River, Old Saybrook, Lyme and Old Lyme — after a sharp drop in listings and closings in March — the real estate market has quickly rebounded despite continued shutdowns ordered in response to the coronavirus pandemic. According to Coldwell Banker, April sales are up 22 percent...
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In an effort to reduce the chance of a second, more severe outbreak of Eastern Equine Encephalitis this summer, the Connecticut River Area Health District — serving Clinton, Old Saybrook, Deep River, Haddam and Chester — will hire a private contractor to treat all the storm drains in their region...
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Congratulations to last week's winner, Chester resident Jerry Weiss, for completing CT Examiner's Sunday Crossword....
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...health, life and family.” And finally, “my daughter’s boyfriend just had two more patients die on his floor this morning from COVID. Fake crisis? We don’t think so.” Christine Palm is the State Representative for the 36th General Assembly district covering the towns of Chester, Deep River, Essex and Haddam. ...
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...legal way to expand absentee ballot provisions. It’s complicated because Connecticut is one of a few states whose voting regulations are in the constitution and so changing them is a procedural challenge,” said Representative Christine Palm of Chester. “Many of us are urging caucus leadership, the Secretary of the State...
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...who owns Dina Varano Jewelry at 27 Main St. and has been open for business in downtown Chester for 25 years, said the artisans and shop owners have worked hard over the years to make Chester a shopping and gathering destination. Varano promised that Chester’s merchants will work together to...
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“They didn’t cover how to deal with a pandemic in school. We don’t know how to deal with this, but we do know how to care and we have two thousand plus years of dealing with adversity,” Rabbi Marci Bellows of Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek in Chester. Rabbi Rachel...
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ESSEX/CHESTER/DEEP RIVER — At $21.1 million, the revised proposal for the Region 4 Board of Education budget includes a 2.87 percent increase over the 2019-20 fiscal year. In a public hearing and special meeting of the Board of Education held on Wednesday via Google Meet, Superintendent Brian White said the...
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...the budget process not to be able to vote — our only way for input,” said Susan Wright, a resident of Chester, in regard to the Region 4 school district budget. “I am wondering what other towns that are regionalized might be thinking.” Many regional school districts – including Region...
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For those in need during the Coronavirus pandemic there are still services available and open. You can obtain groceries and prepared food in southeastern Connecticut from Clinton to Stonington every day of the week. Where: The Chester Food Pantry at Chester Town Hall When: 9am to 12pm, Monday, Wednesday and...
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...this even if it is a little scary.” The Connecticut River Area Health District which covers Deep River, Chester, Old Saybrook, Haddam and Clinton, was unavailable to comment for this story. As of Thursday evening, there were 159 total cases in Connecticut. This story has been updated to reflect additional...
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...to distribution,” according a post on the Lyme-Old Lyme School website. White said that in Region 4 — which draws students from Essex, Chester and Deep River — teachers will be communicating daily with all students, reviewing submitted work and providing students with feedback. “Some types of assessment will be...
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...District announced the closing of licensed cosmetology businesses effective 10 p.m. March 19. Lamont said that he was trying to coordinate with neighboring states, because “it doesn’t work for me to close a bar in Greenwich and then just have someone drive over to Port Chester.” He has already ordered...
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...including Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedke Congregation in Chester, are closed to worshipers following guidance from Centers for Disease Control discouraging gatherings of more than ten people. The timing — with Easter, Passover and Ramadan right around the corner –could not be more challenging for these religious communities. “Ramadan is expected...
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...release. Takeout continues At Otto in Chester, manager Connor Johnson said that Tuesday’s transition to takeout-only was not difficult because it’s part of the restaurant’s everyday routine. “I think it helps that we’re a pizza restaurant. Our to-go base makes up a considerable amount of how much we sell,” he...
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...Chester and Deep River, which make up Regional School District 4 for grades 7 through 12, have been losing population, adding pressure to the current budget situation. Heading into the 2020-2021 school year, the student population for Region 4 is expected to drop by 5.2 percent, or 83 students. Chester...
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...Wednesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. at the farm. Schacht said the farm will sell produce at the Waterford farmers market on Saturdays and the Chester farmers market on Sundays once the season begins in June. The farm also has a CSA program for families in need. Once the season...
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...the road race and others. To proceed without this critical planning will almost certainly to result in beautifully rebuilt downtown, one lacking the shops, restaurants, and the customers to support them, not to mention the employees, owners and their contributions to the community’s tax base. Bill DeJonge Chester Properties, LLC...
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ESSEX/DEEP RIVER/CHESTER — Region 4’s Board of Education debated sharp disparities in budgeting for regional cooperative school sports at a Monday night meeting In one instance, members of the boys and girls hockey team pay $900 and $1,100 each, while athletes in 28 other sports offered by Valley Regional High...
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...Chester,” she said. But recapturing a customer base that may have taken years to build could be difficult, she said. After three and a half years in Chester, McGinley said the anticipation of construction helped seal her decision to close her store at the end of March and retire from...
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...Chester-Hadlyme Ferry crosses the Connecticut River in Lyme. “Three years ago we got a college student to make a list of the invasives she found in Whalebone Cove and from that report we decided we needed a marine botanist,” said Humphrey Tyler, a member of the group, who with Fiske,...
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...towns can handle.” According to White, the selectmen of Chester, Essex and Deep River requested a budget increase of no more than 3 percent for Region 4 schools. “We worked very hard to come in with a very responsible number… and in some cases cutting without hurting programming… a number...
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...feel like we have a lot of choices here, there just aren’t a whole lot of options that are environmentally sound,” said Lauren Gister, the first selectman of Chester. “If we transport our trash out of state there is the wear and tear on the highways, gas, our carbon footprint,...
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...control the weed with herbicides. The Cedar Lake Watershed Commission in Chester has taken that lesson to heart and has approached the Board of Selectman with a proposal to prevent boats requiring a trailer to use the boat launch. The proposed ordinance would mean that only boats carried in, and...
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Recent filings of grand lists by Chester, Deep River, East Haddam, and Westbrook show modest growth across the region between October 2018 and October 2019. Of the four towns, East Haddam had the largest increase in its overall grand list, at 1.78 percent. The town’s total net assessment grew from...
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...glass counter in her women’s clothing shop, Compass Rose, in downtown Deep River on Friday morning. Novak opened a shop in Chester in 2015, but when the building at 4 River Street became available, she and her husband, Dan Kollmer, jumped at the opportunity to lease a space nearby to...
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ESSEX/DEEP RIVER/CHESTER — The amount allocated by Region 4 member towns to a health insurance fund for employees will likely increase by 18 percent, or $2.1 million, in the 2020-21 school budget. The increase comes after several years when the regional school district depleted the reserve due to a combination...
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...happened last season and what to plan for in 2020. According to CAES, mosquitoes testing postive for EEE in 2019, were found in Bethany, Chester, Darien, Groton, East Lyme, Haddam, Hampton, Killingworth, Ledyard, Lyme, Madison, Middlefield, Monroe, North Stonington, Old Lyme, Plainfield, Shelton, South Windsor, Stamford, Stonington, Voluntown, and Waterford....
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...a facility. But that would require a lot of land. We’re losing them to Chester Village to Essex Meadows and to Haddam. They leave and there goes all that wonderful knowledge and everything.” He said the corridor along Route 156 is seemingly ripe for some kind of an upgrade. “It...
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