The Berlin
Cit itiz ize en Volume 13, Number 32
VIP forced to close
Berlin’s Only Hometown Newspaper
Thursday, August 6, 2009
We are the champions!
By Robert Mayer Managing Editor The roller coaster ride for the neighborhood known as Webster Heights continued last week. The neighborhood, which has fought with the town to keep a VIP store from opening at 717 Berlin Turnpike, saw the store open for a few days last week before the store was forced to close July 30. The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a “motion to stay” to the Town of Berlin, which will keep the proposed VIP store on the Berlin Turnpike closed. The store, which is situated at the entrance to the residential neighborhood, will have to stay closed until this same Court of Appeals rules on Judge Stefan Underhill’s decision that allowed them to open last week. The store opened for a few days and put up store signs. The store also had a provocative truck billboard sign on site Thursday that read “Relax, it’s just sex, everybody’s doing it.” The sign on the front door stated the store hours were from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. “It’s a good day for Berlin, we’ll take every little battle when it comes to VIP that we can,” Berlin Mayor Adam Salina said. “It just shows the continuing relentless nature that we have taken when it comes to VIP in this location and shows that we are going to fight until the end.” See VIP, page 4
Photo by Matt Leidemer
Berlin American Legion baseball players celebrate after winning the state championship Aug. 1 at Muzzy Field in Bristol. Berlin beat Milford 2-1 in the final game. For complete coverage, see page 19.
He had the Wright stuff for cross country journey
Berlin, will be finished Saturday morning when Wright pedals into Berlin to see his family. Wright, who graduated from Berlin High School in 2001 and attended Franklin Pierce, where he majored in photojournalism, has lived in Las Vegas for the past several years. He started up his own company, Wright Angle Photography, and has Patron Tequila as a major account. “My original goal was to ride cross country and raise a lot of money for a
By Robert Mayer Managing Editor Matt Wright has always been a free spirit. But when he told his family he was going to ride a bike across country to try to raise money for a charity, they thought he was a little bit crazy. “I bought my bike two months before I left on the trip,” Wright said with a laugh. “You can’t call me a cyclist, more of an adventure seeker.” This adventure, more than 5,000 miles from Astoria, Oregon to Yorktown, Virginia and then up the coast to
Matt Wright
See Wright, page 10