Volume 19, Number 36
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Thursday, November 5, 2015
Active students, active minds at McGee By Ashley Kus The Berlin Citizen
| Ashley Kus / The Berlin Citizen
Hawthorne gets modern Italian makeover By Ashley Kus The Berlin Citizen
Banquets will once again be held on the Berlin Turnpike, at Casa Mia at The Hawthorne, formerly The Hawthorne Inn. Within the next couple months the new banquet halls, restaurant and lounge will open, under new ownership. Come December, Rocky Hill resident Tony Guglieli will open the doors for up-
See McGee / Page A5
The upstairs fitness center at McGee Middle School.
| Courtesy of McGee
Walkway to be dedicated on Veterans Day By Ashley Kus
erans Way between Massirio Drive and Farmington Avenue. This year’s ceremony The town, in collabora- will feature a special dedication with the Berlin Veter- tion at 11 a.m. of the new path ans’ Commission, will hold around the memorial. The new “America’s Wars a Veterans Day ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 11 at Veter- Walkway” illustrates hunSee Hawthorne / Page A3 ans’ Memorial Park, on Vet- dreds of years of war in The Berlin Citizen
America beginning with the Revolutionary War up until the Iraq War. Phase one of the walkway will be completed by Veterans Day, which Peter Galgano Jr., secretary of Berlin’s Veteran’s Commission, says is the perfect time to dedicate it. He said people in
town have already expressed their admiration of the new path. “So many people have come to walk it already and say how nice it looks,” Galgano said. See Walkway / Page A7
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“I want to bring back the old glory of the inn,” Casa Mia at The Hawthorne owner Tony Guglieli said.
At McGee Middle School, there’s a unique approach to physical education. In fact, the school’s wellness program is the only one in the state at a middle school. Tuesday, Oct. 27, a class of McGee sixth grade students climbed on elliptical machines, threw their fists into punching bags, and got active as their heart rates were recorded. The class, held once every six days in the cycle, offers a chance to work out in a cardio environment; the upstairs fitness center resembling a commercial gym with a variety of machines, weights, and equipment to accommodate students’ individual preferences. McGee physical education teacher Bryan Plona tracks