Volume 19, Number 2
Berlin’s Only Hometown Newspaper
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
Kids do their part to help animals By Charles Kreutzkamp
Town Council. “There will be some happy pets here today.” “I want to commend both teachers for showing their stuStudents at St. Paul School dents compassion and emparecently donated more than thy for less fortunate beings, $300 worth of pet food, blan- be it animals or humans,” Ankets, cleaning supplies, tow- imal Control Officer Jan Lund els, laundry detergent, toys told The Citizen. “It is someand treats to the Friends of thing missing in today’s youth Berlin Animal Control and the and it is a good experience for municipal animal control fa- them to show that their efforts cility that houses the shelter. are needed and appreciated.” In January, each class at St. “What a huge donation,” wrote town animal control officers in a Feb. 4 letter to the See Kids / Page 5 The Berlin Citizen
Icy roads cause slew of fender-benders By Charles Kreutzkamp
Sheets of treacherous, wet ice reportedly formed on Berlin Road and Savage Hill Conditions were extremely Road. Most of the main roads slick March 5 morning in Ber- were fine, Klett said, which lin, resulting in police leap- may have resulted in some ing into action to respond drivers being surprised at to nine minor car accidents. the extremely poor traction Deputy Chief John Klett de- on some side roads. The slick roads weren’t scribed the incidents as “fender-benders,” that did only a problem seen locally – not result in serious injuries. in fact, conditions at LaGuar“We had quite a few of them… dia Airport in New York was it came in and froze pretty quick.” See Accidents / Page 5 The Berlin Citizen
Techno-Nuts mascot Nutty and safety captain Mathieu Letendre receiving the Safety award from judges in Waterbury.
Local robotics teams nab awards By Charles Kreutzkamp The Berlin Citizen
Two robotics teams with local flavor took home awards from the FIRST Recycle Rush competition held in Waterbury Feb. 28 and March 1. To play Recycle Rush, each team must build a robot and then form an alliance with two other teams,
so that each alliance has three teams and three robots. Red and blue sides compete to stack totes on scoring platforms, and both alliances can earn “coopertition” points by collaborating to stack yellow totes in the center of the field. Robots have to carry objects without being derailed by pool noodles, referred to
as “litter,” thrown by the other team. Teams play many twoand-a-half-minute matches and are ranked by total scores. The Techno-Nuts, a team drawn from Berlin High School and McGee Middle School, took home the Industrial Safety Award See Robotics / Page 3
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