Volume 18, Number 35
Berlin’s Only Hometown Newspaper
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
A charitable canine occasion By Charles Kreutzkamp
Krzykowski will be at the event with K-9 Officer Titan to put on a police dog Bark for Life is returning demonstration. Bark for Life is an event put for its second year, this time at the Berlin Fairgrounds on by A.S. Labieniec, a local where there will be room for farm and pet supply store. “We got involved because the enormous community response the first year’s event one of our employees participated in the Southington Bark elicited. Cancer survivor and local for Life and loved it so much K-9 Handler Police Officer that she thought it would be Amy Krzykowski explained something fun for us to do,” that Bark for Life is like the said Anna Labieniec. Relay for Life, “but this time you get to bring your dog.” See Canine / Page 9 The Berlin Citizen
Crossing cuts the ribbon tures 16 one- and two-bedThe Berlin Citizen room apartments located above 9,000 square feet Depot Crossing has of- of commercial space right ficially opened its doors, a across from the train staherald of possible changes tion and the proposed site that transit-oriented de- of the new police station. The arrival of Depot velopment could bring to Crossing is the first of town. The ribbon cutting for many proposed changes Depot Crossing, the first that could transform the mixed-use building along town center along FarmFarmington Avenue, was ington Avenue. New Planto occur Oct. 15, after press time. Depot Crossing feaSee Crossing / Page 9
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Farmington Avenue gets festive for the fall season A wide variety of creative scarecrows has cropped up along parks and businesses Chances are many res- as part of the 10th annual Fall idents will have already Foliage Festival, a unique tranoticed a change on Farm- dition for Berlin that brings ington Avenue. festive beautification to the By Charles Kreutzkamp The Berlin Citizen
town every October. Rain didn’t drown out the festivities at Volunteer Park Saturday morning, though the event was cut short because See Festive / Page 8
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These owls were submitted by the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library.