...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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