Thursday, August 16, 2018
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Volume 22, Number 26
Town gets first urgent care center Getting treatment for colds, cuts and concussions will be easier after the opening of the town’s first urgent care clinic. “It is a much-needed service,” said Dr. Thomas Brown, who said he’s been interested in opening his third Kathy’s Urgent Care Clinic in Berlin for years. The lack of such a clinic could force those in need of care into hospital emergency
Changes to bus service proposed By Mary Ellen Godin Record-Journal staff
The Capitol Region Council of Governments is recommending changes to the transit system that could add a bus through Plainville and Southington and move a Meriden-New Brtain route from the Chamberlain Highway to the Berlin Turnpike.
Dr. Thomas Brown checks the heart rate of his 11-year-old daughter, Anjali Brown. Thomas opened Berlin’s first walk-in medical clinic, Kathy’s Urgent Care, on Webster Square Road on Monday, Aug. 6.
rooms, Brown said, which tend to be more expensive and have longer wait times. “We are thrilled because, again, we don’t have a medical walk-in,” said Economic Development Director Chris Edge, adding that he had been courting various urgent care clinics to open a branch in Berlin. “It’s been one of the goals I’ve (had) for the last year and a half.”
Devin Leith-Yessian, The Citizen
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A CTtransit 501 bus to New Britain exits the Westfield Meriden shopping mall in Meriden, Thursday, Aug. 9. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
Citizens academy gives an inside look at policing By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
The public will have a chance to see the town’s police officers in a new light with a Citizens Police Academy showing many of the lesser known aspects of law enforcement. The academy runs Tuesdays, Sept. 11 through Nov. 13, 6:30 to 9 p.m. “A lot of people generally don't
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