Volume 17, Number 47
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Regional towns looking for Fastrak connection
Thursday, November 21, 2013
After 37 years, Cathy Nelson to retire By Daniel Jackson The Berlin Citizen
By Daniel Jackson
erational in 15 months, in February The Berlin Citizen 2015. It has opened a comment period on bus routes that service the According to a service plan re- region. Local towns hope DOT will add leased recently, The Connecticut Department of Transportation is more bus routes or more times changing very little to the local bus when buses travel through their routes feeding into the CT Fastrak towns, as a way to help residents system in the towns surrounding connect to and from the Fastrak system. New Britain. Under the current plan, DOT DOT hopes to have Fastrak, the busway that will shuttle riders from New Britain to Hartford, opSee Fastrak / Page 9
Children’s Librarian Cathy Nelson sat at her computer Nov. 7 and cataloged books. The new children’s books lay in piles on her desk as she took them one by one, affixed labels and scanned them into the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library’s system. On her first day working at the library, Nelson did the very same task. On June 1, 1976 — 37 and a half years ago — Nelson cataloged books. She walked into the basement of the old library on Peck Street, sat at a table piled high with See Retire / Page 6
Cathy Nelson cataloges children’s books at her desk. | (Daniel Jackson/ The Berlin Citizen)
Thanksgiving, Hanukkah intersection a rare occurrence rare occurrence. So rare an occurrence that the next time Thanksgiving and Hanukkah are predicted to coinOn the evening of Nov. 28, Jews cide is 79,811 A.D. For many local Jews, this year prescelebrating Hanukkah will gather around and light the second candle ents an opportunity to combine and in the Jewish Festival of Lights. For celebrate the holidays at the same many Jews living in the United States, time. Rabbi Joshua Ratner of they will be stuffed from a meal of turkey and pumpkin pie, the traditional Congregation Kol Ami, a conservative synagogue in Cheshire, said the Thanksgiving meal. Thanksgiving and Hanukkah fall on See Rare / Page 17 the same date this year, an extremely By Daniel Jackson The Berlin Citizen
The CT Fastrak bus station in New Britain undergoes construction. Connecticut Department of Transportation expects the project to be finished in 15 months. | (Dan Jackson/The Citizen)
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