...such plans vary by district. Old Saybrook intends to continue cohorting its students.Superintendent Jan Perruccio said in an email that the district would cohort grades K through 8 by grade and have four classes at the high school. Clinton and Guilford will not be strictly cohorting, and Lyme-Old Lyme and Madison...
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OLD LYME — A public hearing by the town’s zoning commission to review three 10,500-square-foot buildings at 250 Shore Road intended for contractor services and storage will continue at Town Hall on August 12 at 6 p.m. More than 100 neighborhood and area residents have signed a petition in opposition...
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After eight years on the Lyme-Old Lyme Board of Education, Rick Goulding, along with three other members, including the current chair Diane Linderman, will not seek re-election this November, leaving nearly half of the seats open for first-time members. “Eight years was enough of a contribution to the community for...
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Lyme-Old Lyme schools are adding additional class sections to keep up with a growing population of students in the district. At a Board of Education meeting Tuesday, Superintendent Ian Neviaser said that the district needed to add an additional section of 5th grade at Mile Creek Elementary School, increasing the...
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...have the local resources and infrastructure to support projects of that size. Since 2014, the authority has approved the credits for 56 projects, and 11 have been in towns with a population of fewer than 20,000 residents, including developments in East Lyme, Waterford, Montville, Stonington, Griswold and Killingly. The five...
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EAST LYME – Town residents in a voice vote approved $200,000 of the town’s federal COVID relief money to replace the roof on the new public safety building during a town meeting on Wednesday night. It was the third time East Lyme residents have approved funding to renovate the former...
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OLD LYME — The Lyme Art Association is celebrating its 100th anniversary on Saturday, August 7, with an entire day of activities, including the Centennial Frolic, an evening 1920’s-themed fundraiser for the Second Century Skylight Project. The skylights are 100 years old — the same age as the building —...
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...building official in Old Lyme, said that many of the permits issued in Old Lyme were for smaller scale projects like generators, electrical service upgrades and replacing windows. The supply chain delays mean that contractors like Noble and Brodeur may be forced to postpone start dates and that unanticipated design...
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OLD LYME — In a surprising move, the Old Lyme Democratic Town Committee endorsed Martha Shoemaker, who was elected to the Regional Board of Education in Nov. 2017, to challenge incumbent Republican Timothy Griswold in this November’s election. Incumbent Selectman Mary Jo Nosal, who some expected to run for first...
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OLD LYME — A meeting of the Sound View Commission on Monday night debated the cost of parking in the beach community and whether it is fair to expect visitors to balance the cost of additional town services during the summer months. “The townspeople pay for police already and they...
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OLD LYME — A proposal to construct three 10,500-square-foot commercial buildings that would house storage units and businesses at 250 Shore Road (Route 156) will come before the Zoning Commission at a special meeting on August 12 at 6 p.m. CN&S Realty of Old Lyme has applied for a special...
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OLD LYME — The Republican Town Committee quickly nominated and unanimously approved its slate of candidates at Town Hall on Thursday night, including incumbent First Selectman Timothy Griswold for another term and Matt Ward, a longtime state trooper and unaffiliated candidate, for selectman. In the 2019 election, Griswold entered the...
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...continuously to every owner of the property, including to us.” Frampton said the public documents were cited from Hartford, Lyme and Old Lyme, and referenced historical archives. “There’s quite a lot of historical information that goes along with this but the important part is the title,” he said. Frampton emphasized...
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In December 2016 I traveled from Rhode Island to Connecticut to a meeting at the Old Lyme Town Hall where one of Connecticut’s US Senators, Richard Blumenthal, promised to do everything in his power to stop the Federal Railroad Administration’s plan for the “Old Saybrook to Kenyon Bypass” including tying...
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...between Old Saybrook and Kenyon, RI and New Rochelle, NY and Green’s Farm in Westport. At the time, Senator Richard Blumenthal called those plans, which would have crossed the historic district of Old Lyme at a height of 40 feet, with significant additional impacts to New London, Charlestown, RI and...
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OLD LYME — Longtime Artistic Director Ed Arron, who will lead Musical Masterworks in its 31st season this fall, has announced that he will step down in 2022, passing the reins to violinist Tessa Lark, a musician well-known to Old Lyme audiences. Lark, 32, who has been performing with Musical...
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...by Old Lyme Affordable Housing. Loretta McCluskey, operations manager for Hope, said Friday that the original ground leases that were put in place by Old Lyme Affordable Housing specify that any taxes received by Hope will be passed on to the homeowners, unless the taxes are abated or otherwise paid....
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OLD LYME — After considering an alternative on the south side of Ferry Road that would have saved a few trees, the Ferry Road Sidewalk Committee came to a consensus Thursday that the best location for the replacement of the buckling sidewalks was on the north side of the road...
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OLD LYME — The Halls Road Improvements Committee will hold an open house on Saturday, July 10, from 9 a.m. to noon in Town Hall at 52 Lyme St. to present phase two of the Halls Road master plan, designed by BSC Group of Glastonbury. Visual materials will show roadway...
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OLD LYME — Supplied with red stickers, blue stickers, and gold stars, many of the Lymes’ Senior Center Board of Directors and a number of selected community members marked their favorite and least favorite areas of the center on large site plans and floor plans Tuesday afternoon. “[Put the] red...
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OLD LYME — With a $1.657 million budget for FY21-22, about 120 students enrolled in summer classes, and a small full-time core program that will start in the fall, Lyme Academy of Fine Arts is rebounding after two rough years. “People are so enthusiastic to be able to finally come...
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OLD LYME — Point One Architects will conduct a public workshop on Tuesday, July 6 at 1 p.m to talk about options for updating the Lymes’ Senior Center and to gather input from the community. The Lymes’ Senior Center Building Committee has scheduled the workshop, which will take place inside...
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...it. Roger;’s Lake, Old Lyme, CT I really wanted to capture the majesty of the Connecticut River. I even went up in a plane, but it was so big, your eye had nowhere to land in the photograph. You know, it’s 410 miles from Canada all the way to Old...
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...predominantly white audiences within predominantly white communities arguing that systemic racism does not exist, and that to even explore and objectively examine the issue is, in itself, a threat, bad, wrong or — and this is the richest hypocrisy of all — racist. Richard W. Stout III Old Lyme, CT...
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...accommodation. This concept – related to common carrier law – applies to companies that hold themselves out to be public but do not “carry” freight, passengers or communications. In many ways, digital platforms that hold themselves out to the public resemble traditional common carriers. Though digital instead of physical, they...
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...Old Lyme to East Lyme’s sewer main, and the “trunk” set of pipes carrying effluent from the beach associations to the pump house. The total cost of the sewer installation will be shared among the town of Old Lyme’s Sound View Beach, the Miami Beach Association, Old Lyme Shores Beach...
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A minor tweak in Connecticut’s funding formula for school districts will more than double the amount that Lyme-Old Lyme schools receive from the state over the next two years. In 2021, Lyme received $60,216 and Old Lyme received $238,583. According to projections from the School and State Finance Project, Old...
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By the end of the summer, Louis Zubek, the former rowing coach for Lyme-Old Lyme High School, will be able to say that he has coached not one, but two Olympic athletes. That’s because Lyme-Old Lyme alumni Austin Hack, 29, and Liam Corrigan, 23, will be part of the U.S....
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Madison is hiring two new teachers for the fall. East Lyme needs two kindergarten teachers, two second grade teachers, a social worker and six paraeducators. Stonington plans to hire at least 20 teachers, tutors and interventionists. Region 4 and Guilford are hiring permanent substitutes. Old Saybrook is hiring temporary therapists,...
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OLD LYME — A new retail food shop slated for the little yellow house at 96 Halls Road received approval from the Zoning Commission on Monday night for a special exception change of use from retail to food service. Long River Local will feature coffee, prepared foods, sandwiches, baked goods...
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