Thursday, May 10, 2018
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Volume 22, Number 12
Elevator is finally installed at library By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
Visitors to the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library will find navigating the building easier with the recent addition of an elevator.
“Everybody was very happy to see it,” said library Director Helen Malinka, who cut the ribbon at the elevator’s opening Saturday, April 28. “It’s been a long time coming.”
Road building is home to the library, while the first houses the Parks and Recreation Department, Community Center, Library Book Sale Room and some library storage.
The second floor of the Kensington
See Library, A4
Finance board requests assistance
By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
Gift shop manager to open new store
The Board of Finance asked the mayor and Town Council for input on budget cuts and requested council members attend the Tuesday, May 8 finance board meeting.
By Ashley Kus The Citizen
After years of managing the garden center gift shop on the Chamberlain Highway, Tracy Shipman is opening her own store on Farmington Avenue filled with local artisan products .
“We think it would be best if the two boards can come together,” said finance board Chairperson Sam Lomaglio. “We feel it’s better government this way.”
“Dragonfly came about the last couple months,” the Berlin resident said of her new Dragonfly Home & Decor shop next to Dynasty Jewelers. “Now’s the opportunity to start my own and go off of that momentum.”
Lomaglio hopes working with the council will help the finance board create a budget acceptable to voters, preferably one without cuts to personnel or core services.
The garden center recently announced its closing and impending sale after more than five years in business.
“We’re getting there, I appreciate them looking at it hard,” said Mayor Mark Kaczynski.
Shipman, 37, said Dragonfly will be an extension of the center’s gift shop where she often assisted customers in
Last week, Kaczynski said he would be willing to attend the finance board meeting and had been speaking with
See Shipman, A12
Tracy Shipman, owner of the new Dragonfly Home & Gift, 1064 Farmington Ave., Ashley Kus, The Citizen Kensington.
See Finance, A15
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 6:35PM
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 6:35PM
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1:35PM
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Fat Tire Friday $5 Fat Tire Amber Ale Drafts
Community of Caring Night, by Community Foundation of Greater New Britain & Ulbrich Steel • $5 Coors Light Drafts
Pre-Game Autograph Session Post Game - Kids run the Bases
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