Volume 19, Number 44
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Thursday, December 31, 2015
Santa came to town, in a fire truck By Ashley Kus
Berlin AD to step down By Nick Carroll and Nate Brown
The Berlin Citizen
The Berlin Citizen
For the eighth year, Berlin got a special visit by the Santa Express. For nine days this month, Santa delivered presents in the decorated Kensington Fire Rescue truck, which was decked out in Christmas lights, paper snowflakes, and played Christmas music as it completed its stops. Of course, the Santa deliveries included a few elves and several helpers. “Throughout serving the community we see people in bad situations and now is the time we get to interact with the community and see kids happy,” Chief Mark D. Lewandowski said. Everyone in the department participated in the event, as it was one of its biggest fundrais-
Berlin High School director of athletics Dan Scavone has submitted his resignation and will leave his job at the end of the school year. Scavone, who has held the post since July 1, 2012, informed the school board of his decision recently. “I was conScavone templating this at the end of my last school year, several months ago,” said Scavone, who is in his 25th year in the public education sysOnce again, this year, Kensington Fire Rescue’s Santa Express completed its tem. “This job in athletic ad| Courtesy of Kensington Fire Rescue ministration has evolved into See Santa / Page A4 stops around Berlin. a difficult job from a stress standpoint. I have some health issues that I’ve been dealing with, and my health issues do not correlate well By Ashley Kus gram with Tanko Lighting fore the Tanko presentation project should pay for itself with stress. The Berlin Citizen “I’ll be 54 in a couple was detailed, and ultimately began. A Tanko representa- in four years. Installation will approved. It’s proposed tive contrasted the current be by local contractors. Cur- months, and at that age, with It was a heavy agenda for to save Berlin more than annual cost of town lighting, rently, test lights have been the amount of years I’ve at almost $392,000, versus the set up in the entrance of Sage served in education, I want to the last Town Council meet- $300,000 each year. prioritize things and put my Mayor Mark Kaczynski cost of about $74,000 with Park. ing of 2015 on Tuesday, Dec. It will be about 120 days health and my family first.” 15, at Town Hall in the Town moved to approve the ac- new LED lights. While the day-to-day Kaczynski explained that from notice of approval to Council Chambers. The quisition of town streetlight town’s proposed cost-saving assets, such as fixtures and the Tanko contract will run LED light conversion pro- poles, from Eversource be- for three years and the whole See Light / Page A2 See Scavone / Page A3
Town light conversion plan moves forward
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