...was sandy and accessible, but the Old Lyme had a 40-foot drop to the water, making the area difficult to access. Moving forward Twining said the subcommittee had spoken with Matt Prosser, managing partner of Guilford-based Provident Holdings, which owns the major share of the Big Y shopping center. “He’s...
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...head-on.” In April, Health Management Associates estimated that between 130,000 and 382,000 individuals in Connecticut could lose their employer-sponsored health insurance as a result of the economic shutdown. State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, the committee co-chair, said that he receives calls every day from people in some of the most...
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I wanted to write and tell about the place my Dad lives at, Gladeview in Old Saybrook. In March of 2016, my Dad was sent to Gladeview from the VA, we chose this place because of out of all the places we visited in Guilford, Madison and Old Saybrook, this...
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...were two of the twelve municipalities reporting more than $10 million in estimated revenue impacts Guilford reported an estimated impact of $18 million based on the number of local taxpayers expected to take advantage of a state-mandated tax leniency program — in the case of Guilford, a 3-month deferral of...
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...new fiscal year begins in July. Of Chudwick’s clients, the Town of Seymour has also authorized tax anticipation notes, and he said he wouldn’t be surprised to see other towns follow suit. Earlier in May, the Essex Board of Selectmen approved a $5 million note. Guilford has also discussed tax...
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...22 at the town lines of Guilford and Branford, for which the department is accepting bids through May 20. Connecticut’s Special Transportation Fund was budgeted to end the year with a $38.8 million surplus, but declining revenues could leave the fund with a $135.8 million deficit when the fiscal year...
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...so people need to give us a little bit of advance notice. We can do anything, just give us some time.” The bakery will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with extended hours the day before Easter. At Hen and Heifer in Guilford, owner Whang...
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...their disposal,” said Paul Freeman, the superintendent of Guilford public schools and the other co-chair of the task force. “If a student doesn’t have a device they can’t access what the state department or their district has compiled.” For those students losing two or more months of education there is...
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...double that amount, but most people really just have vegetables as a side not as a main course, in which case it’s sufficient for four people.” She also sells produce at two farmer’s markets: Madison and the Dudley Farm Market in North Guilford. Willis said joining a CSA is a...
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...second set. She and Carabello are students at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford. Terzakis is from Guilford. Moro lives in Brookfield. They travel some distance to get together and play. Each plays other forms of music — gospel, shout, R&B, funk, jazz-fusion — but Moro...
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...few revisions, so it might go down even more.” Compared to neighboring school districts, the modest increase is all the more striking — the draft budget for East Lyme schools includes an increase of 4.26 percent, Old Saybrook of 0.98 percent and Guilford of 2.14 percent. According to Neviaser, the...
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Guilford-based musician and songwriter Clare Byrne will be appearing this Friday at Nightingale’s Acoustic Cafe in Old Lyme. Take a look at our interview with Byrne — now a regular arts columnist for CT Examiner — earlier this summer. Byrne will be appearing solo, with a guitar, a piano, and...
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...extremely successful would not achieve that success if people were not attracted to our community.” Of nearby towns, Spera said that Old Saybrook’s police department is most comparable to East Lyme, which according to his presentation, has 24 full-time law enforcement officers. Madison has 30 officers, Guilford has 38, Stonington...
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...never heard that before,” said Nico Anthis, the owner of Georgie’s Diner in Guilford. “But, we realized it was going to get bigger and bigger and we determined if we were going to evolve as a restaurant, we needed to understand it.” Anthis spent a full month analyzing every ingredient...
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...like it on the shoreline, but Hen & Heifer in Guilford surprised me. With a side of their most-popular salted caramel toffee cookie, the small cup of chocolate was a perfect reminder of home during the holidays. And unlike L.A. Burdick, chef Whang Suh at Hen & Heifer understands that...
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...out there and we had little tables and people came back and they found us.” In 2009, she moved to space across from The Kate in Old Saybrook and then to her current location at 75 Main Street in 2015. “I live in Guilford, so I was looking for something...
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...internet services. The Old Lyme Republicans paid over $12,650 to Majority Strategies of Jacksonville, Florida, over three payments between October 2 and October 27, and another $6,062 to Provider Strategies of Madison on October 6. The Old Lyme Democrats paid about $17,619 to DNA Campaigns LLC of Guilford in four...
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...hundred pounds of four different kinds of stuffing, including country sage sausage stuffing, cornbread stuffing. “It’s amazing how much goes into Thanksgiving,” Crosby said. Walt’s is located at 178 Main Street in Old Saybrook. Scott’s Meats & Deli in East Lyme sells turkeys sourced locally from Gozzi Farms in Guilford....
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...schools would bring. “The draw is our school system — we don’t want to dilute that by being like Groton or Guilford — we should be Old Lyme,” he said. “I would resist governance from afar.” Closing statements Thompson said the nine-member school board was meant to provide guidance and...
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...Connecticut Water Services (CWS), which serves about 325,000 residents across 56 towns statewide. According to its website, the company currently has WICA projects in Coventry, Ellington, Enfield, Essex, Farmington, Griswold, Guilford, Killingly, Mansfield, Naugatuck, Tolland and Vernon-Rockwell. Contingent on merger, not on sewers The Sound View upgrades are contingent on...
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...Partnership announced that Dave Carswell would become President, Pam Days-Luketich, Vice President, and Bill Attridge, Treasurer. Larry Freundlich will continue to serve as Secretary. Carswell is Branch Manager & Mortgage Loan Originator at Guilford Savings Bank. The email also confirms intentions to abandon efforts to build a 37-unit housing development...
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...residents and 56 towns across the state, including Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Clinton, Deep River, Essex, Chester, Madison, Guilford and Stonington. The merger has raised some concerns about the status of commitments to install updated water service to the Sound View neighborhood of Old Lyme. Regulatory hurdles According to the...
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...Mianus River $486,633.23 out of $1.7m: Clinton, Clinton Harbor $85,436.62 out of $2.2m: Guilford, Guilford Harbor $116,993.48 out of $944,000: Wethersfield, Wethersfield Cove $256,577.04 of of $1.6m: Old Lyme, Black Hall and Four Mile Rivers $2,742,000.00 out of $4.2m: Old Saybrook, North Cove “The Port Authority has not acted on...
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There is enough conflict in the world without needlessly proclaiming any one place the very best pizza on the shoreline, but I suppose it says something that my two companions sparked to the idea on a Friday of a 20-mile trek on I-95 from Old Lyme to Guilford to sit...
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...on cookies at Hen & Heifer in Guilford. “The idea is that when I’m frustrated working on a project with writing, I know I can make something. That I can succeed. That I can do something from start to finish. If you love baking there is a comfort in it....
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...of 25 officers, DeMaio said. Several of the surrounding towns including Madison, Guilford and Branford also have K-9 units, while smaller neighboring towns may rely on these units for assistance. “In a big altercation, if only two officers are going — trying to get that whole crowd compliant may lead...
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Three weeks ago we asked CT Examiner summer intern Oliver Falla to help locate the best strawberries from small farms across southeast Connecticut. Falla asked the advice of local farmers. He asked Guilford-based James-Beard-nominated pastry chef Whang Suh, who uses local strawberries in his strawberry, vanilla, citrus, pistachio “Frasier.” He...
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...previously a teacher and assistant principal in the Guilford Public Schools. “I had seen how much good it did for students in Guilford and wanted to bring that here,” Neviaser said. The mentor is not meant to be a tutor, advisor, teacher or counselor to the student. The role is...
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...owns Hen & Heifer, a little blue shop tucked behind the town green in Guilford. His shop is filled with exquisitely crafted pastries, crème puffs, macarons, tarts, cakes, cookies and confections I have never seen elsewhere. Pistachio Délice, Hen & Heifer (Credit: Hen & Heifer) “When I walked in and...
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