...and amended October 1. Scott and Kathleen Boulanger, who live in Colchester and own property in the Miami Beach Association, are the owners of the .12-acre site and received approval for a variance for the project from the Zoning Board of Appeals in July. The site is partially located in...
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ESSEX – CHESTER – DEEP RIVER — Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 was passed to prevent discrimination in any education program or activity, including sports, based on sex. The idea is that boys and girls are given equal opportunity to participate in all federally-funded activities. To...
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...serves as state senator for the 33rd District which includes Essex, Deep River, Chester, Westbrook, Colchester, Portland, Haddam, East Haddam, Lyme, Clinton and part of Old Saybrook. But Needleman said he often sees state mandates as a challenge on the local level. “It’s always a challenge because the state tends...
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ESSEX – CHESTER – DEEP RIVER — On Thursday, the Region 4 Board of Education voted to drop an appeal of a two-year-old freedom of information (FOI) request by an Essex resident. The litigation had cost the district $23,771.50. The request was originally made of the Region 4 board of...
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ESSEX – CHESTER – DEEP RIVER — In August 2017, Regional School District 4 purchased the 13-acre Mislick property without an independent appraisal. The district relied instead on a seven-month-old appraisal completed for the seller, Essex Savings Bank. That appraisal was labeled “for Estate Planning Purposes and, the only intended...
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Perhaps you don’t live in Essex, Chester, or Deep River and have decided to skip over Julia Werth’s remarkably damning news story detailing years of failure to follow state law and to exercise adequate financial oversight, both by the superintendent and the school board. Well don’t. If ever there was...
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In August of 2017, the Region 4 Board of Education, representing the towns of Chester, Deep River and Essex, spent $379,916 to purchase the Mislick Property adjacent to Valley Regional High School. The idea was that someday in the future the land could be used for additional sports fields. In...
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...Barone said. In southeastern Connecticut, state Troop F based in Westbrook and serving Essex, Deep River, Chester and Old Lyme among others was flagged for racial disparities in 2013-14 as well as 2014-15. “Troop F has come up before with significant disparities in their search data. They were disproportionately searching...
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At the start of the 2013-2014 school year, 656 students attended Vinal Technical High School in Middletown. By last year, that number had dropped to 407. The schools serves students from across Middlesex County, but this year the towns of Clinton, Westbrook, Old Saybrook, Essex, Deep River and Chester combined...
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...EEE has been identified in Chester, Haddam, Hampton, Killingworth, Madison, Plainfield, Shelton, Ledyard, Groton, Colchester and Columbia, as well as Voluntown, North Stonington and Stonington. Although Massachusetts and Rhode Island have both begun aerial spraying of insecticide, the experiment station and the Connecticut Department of Public Health are for the...
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...region – or the state – to see such a dramatic jump in growth from the 2017-18 to the 2018-19 school year. In math, both Chester and Old Saybrook saw more than a 20 percent jump in students meeting or exceeding their goal as well. “The idea behind the growth...
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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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...receiving Care 4 Kids benefits. In April of 2019 Old Lyme, Lyme and Chester all had zero children receiving subsidies. Old Saybrook, Westbrook and Essex had just four, six and seven respectively. When compared with the number of children receiving free or reduced lunch, across the board, all towns have...
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...of curriculum that is offered at Bright & Early. “Most of our families are from Old Saybrook, but some of them are also driving West toward New Haven and drop their kids off on the way,” Lukasik said. “We have Chester, Killingworth, Essex and Old Lyme and much of the...
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...and native plants and areas historically significant to the Griswold family and the Old Lyme art colony. Artists’ impressions The museum and its surrounds have special meaning to several local artists, including Jerry Weiss, of Chester, who said he came to Lyme almost 25 years ago to teach at the...
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CHESTER — At the end of a restaurant meal, how often have you asked to take home your leftover bread and butter? It was the first time for me at Grano Arso in Chester last Tuesday night where I hovered over a side plate of house-cultured butter and bread all...
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...southeastern Connecticut that includes Westbrook, Old Lyme, North Stonington, Montville, Killingworth, Haddam, Essex, East Haddam, Chester and Deep River. Prior to 2014, participating towns paid 70 percent of a trooper salary. Since 2014, towns with a resident state trooper pay 85 percent of a trooper’s salary, and 100 percent of...
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...that schools want to without being classified as a regional district. It gives us the statutory leeway to find the most efficient way of working.” Needleman’s home district is an example of where this statutory leeway might be most helpful. Essex, Deep River and Chester have separate school districts for...
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...towns, but neither Norwich nor New London. The 11 towns are Old Lyme, Lyme, East Lyme, Old Saybrook, Essex, Deep River, Chester, Westbrook, Killingworth, Clinton and Madison. The primary mission of SSKP is to ensure that residents of these towns do not go hungry. “I would like to make sure...
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...the golden light spilling towards us across the ice and water, we stopped dead and together gasped, “Oh, My God.” Eventually pulling ourselves away we moved on, down along the road, to the Hadlyme-Chester Ferry and the river. Only two houses were visible from our side of the cove and...
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...there will be no quiet in the quiet car. So far, I’ve always arrived safely. And that’s probably the takeaway on the underfunded and not inexpensive American commuting experience. It’s often dyspeptic and sometimes offensive, but the odds are very good that you’ll reach your destination alive. Jerry Weiss, Chester...
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...Hadlyme-Chester Ferry and the river. Only two houses were visible from our side of the cove and none across the way, just woods. The first was an old yellow house with multi-paned horizontal windows that were common to old Connecticut houses redone in the thirties and forties. The other was...
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