FROM THE TOWN OF BERLIN
A message to residents The following measures have been taken by the town to limit the possible exposure and the spread of the COVID-19 virus:
No tenant yet for former Ferndale Market location By Everett Bishop The Citizen
The vacancy left by Ferndale Market Fresh Grocery has existed since 2017 and may remain that way for the foreseeable future.
Town Hall will remain open for business, but the activities at the following locations have been curtailed as noted below for the period beginning March 16, 2020 through March 30, 2020: - The Berlin Senior Center is closed to the public and all activities are cancelled. Congregate meals provided by CW Resources are cancelled. Transportation will be provided only for medical appointments and the weekly grocery shopping trip. Senior Center Staff will continue to be in the building during normal business hours and will be available by phone.
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- The Berlin Parks and Recreation Department will cancel all programs that take place in this time frame but will continue to register for spring and some summer programs. - The Berlin Community Center will adjust its
hours to close at the same time as the Parks and Recreation Department with the exception of Fridays when it will remain open until 5 p.m. - The Exercise Room within the Community Center See Residents, A11
According to Economic Development Director Chris Edge, the town is working with the owners and Newington-based commercial realtors Reno Property Group to find a tenant for the property. At the moment, Edge said that he was “eagerly trying to find supermarkets” to fill the space. One of the biggest challenges he’s faced with the vacancy is its size. “The space is bigger than a specialized market would use,” he said. “That side of
The space once filled by Ferndale Market Fresh has remained empty since 2017.
town would support a market, but at that size it would almost have to be small and family-owned.” The market was updated before opening in 2016 with new shelves, floors, refrigeration and handicap accessible bathrooms, further establishing the space as a grocery store. ebishop@ record-journal.com 203-317-2444
Local bakery owners open a new spot in Southington By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
SOUTHINGTON — Christine Formica had just arrived with the cash register when the first customers started coming into The Bakery on Center Deli & Café midday Friday.
The Formicas run The Bakery on the Ave in Berlin and have been working since last year to open their second location, at 50 Center St. Rich Domagala got an apple Danish and was impressed with the flavor and consistency. He’s had the bakery’s treats at the Southington farmer’s market and said he was glad to have them permanently in his hometown.
Enzo Formica had been at the bakery all night preparing for the opening. Atop a ladder, he was stocking “I’ll be coming back,” Domabread into wire wall bins gala said. when his wife arrived with the final piece of equipment. Enzo Formica said the bak-
ery’s cannolis, bread and stuffed breads are the most popular. He bakes and sells a host of Italian and American cookies and pastries, grinders and calzones. All the food is made daily at the Berlin bakery. “We do about a hundred dozen a week,” Enzo Formica said of bread. Margaret Dionne, a Southington resident, bought a rye loaf on Friday and planned to return. See Bakery, A12
Enzo Formica, the co-owner of The Bakery on Center Deli & Café, stacks up fresh breads Friday at the new business at 50 Center St. in Southington. It’s the second bakery for the family, to go with one in Berlin. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
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BHS Hall of Fame: Matt Carasiti The Berlin High School Athletic Hall of Fame will celebrate its Class of 2020 on Sunday, April 26 at the Aqua Turf in Plantsville. The inductees are: Steve Baccaro (Class of 1947), Phil Perretta (Class of 1961), John Steurer (Class of 1980), Cynthia Gozzo Dastoli (Class of 1990), Robert Manzo (Class of 1990), Allison Murphy Semenuk (Class of 2002), Matt Carasiti (Class of 2009), and the 1999 and 2000 BHS wrestling teams.
Matt Carasiti, Class of 2009 Carasiti was a four-year letterman in baseball and was a team captain his senior year. He was a two-time AllState selection and was instrumental in helping the Redcoats win a conference title and finish as Class L runner-up.
Player of the Year and was Northeast Coca-Cola Player of the Year. Carasiti was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 38th round of the 2009 MLB Draft, but opted to attend St. John’s University.
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As a college freshman, he made 19 appearances, including seven starts with a 5.94 ERA and 34 strikeouts in 53 innings, and appeared in the NCAA tournament. During his sophomore year, he made 29 appearances, including one start, and went 2-2 with eight saves and a 2.47 ERA with 39 strikeouts in 43.2 innings. That season he held opponents to a .219 batting average and didn’t allow an earned run in 20 of 28 relief appearances. He also ranked fifth in the Big East in saves.
With Carasiti getting it done on the mound, St. John’s As a senior, Carasiti earned won its record seventh Big Louisville Slugger All-Ameri- East Conference baseball can honors, was named tournament. Connecticut’s Gatorade
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SCHOOL CROSSING GUARD TOWN OF BERLIN An Equal Opportunity Employer
The Town of Berlin Police Department is seeking applicants for a School Crossing Guard position. Applications are now being accepted and will be until the position is filled. We are looking for a candidate that can begin immediately.
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Successful applicants must pass a background check, have a high school diploma or equivalent, and a valid CT driver’s license.
applications Deputy Chief ofEmployment Police Chris Ciuciand the job description are available at www.berlinpd.org or
can be obtained at the Berlin Police Department Records Bureau. Records Bureau hours are Monday through Friday, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Our address is 240 Kensington Road, Berlin, CT 06037.
After his junior season, in The Town An ofEqual Opportunity Berlin Police DepartmentEmployer is seeking applicants for a School Crossing which he compiled a 7-5 Guard position. Applications are now being accepted and will be until the position is looking for a candidate that can begin immediately. record and 3.98 ERA in 83.2 filled. We Theare Town of Berlin Police Department is seeking applicants for innings over 18 appeara School Crossing Guard position. Applications being Successful applicants must pass a background check, have aare highnow school diploma or ances, including 14 starts, equivalent, and a valid license. accepted andCT willdriver’s be until the position is filled. We are looking Carasiti was selected in the for a candidate that can begin applications and the job description areimmediately. available at www.berlinpd.org or sixth round in the 2012 MLB Employment can be obtained at the Berlin Police Department Records Bureau. Records Bureau Successful applicants must background check, have is 240 Draft, 198th overall, by the hours are Monday through Friday, frompass 8:00 aAM to 4:00 PM. Our address a high school Kensington Road, Berlin,diploma CT 06037.or equivalent, and a valid CT driver’s Colorado Rockies. Chris Ciuci Deputy Chief of Police Public Information Officer (860) 828-7086 cciuci@berlinpd.org
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CHESHIRE — About 500 student-athletes, coaches and supporters from all over the state gathered together last week to make their voices heard at the CIAC office in Cheshire.
The Wednesday, March 11 protest came came almost 24 hours after the CIAC announced that the remainder of the winter championship tournaments were cancelled due to concerns over the coronavirus COVID-19. The high school athletes
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Following guidelines from the CCHD and CDC, BerlinPeck Memorial Library has cancelled all programs and events through Monday, March 30. This includes all meeting room bookings.
The Kensington Garden Club’s Thursday, March 19 program at the Community Center has been cancelled.
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Benigni updates community regarding school closures Superintendent of Schools Brian J. Benigni sent the following notification to local families on Friday, March 13. As you know, the situation related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is quite fluid, and it seems that it contin-
ues to change nearly hourly as more information and guidelines from the Governor, the Department of Health Commissioner, and the Commissioner of Education. We have implemented, and will continue to imple-
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HARTFORD — Connecticut officials on Monday ordered movie theaters, gyms and other businesses closed until further notice, joining with New York and New Jersey in announcing restrictions
Many businesses were ordered to close as of 8 p.m. Monday, and bars and restaurants were limited to offering only takeout. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont also urged the Foxwoods Re-
sort Casino and Mohegan Sun to close. Essential businesses such as supermarkets and gas stations will be able to stay open. “We are in this together,” Lamont said during a conference call with the governors of New York and New Jersey. ”This is changing so fast. We’ve got to work together on a coordinated basis.” Public gatherings of more than 50 people were restricted, in line with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lamont on Sunday ordered all public schools in the state to close beginning Tuesday. For most people, the virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever
and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, or death. The vast majority of people recover.
“We are urging the tribes in the strongest possible way, they ought to be closing down those casinos,” Lamont said. Messages were left seeking comment with representatives of both tribal casinos.
Lamont also urged the state’s off-track betting facilities to close. The operator of TRIBAL CASINOS off-track betting sites in the Lamont acknowledged Mon- state, Sportech, announced day there are “legal and juSunday that the facilities will risdictional issues” concern- close at least until the end of ing whether the Mashanthe month beginning at 5 tucket Pequot and Mohegan p.m. Monday, but said teletribes will agree to his call to phone betting and its online close Mohegan Sun and Fox- site will remain open. woods Resort Casino in southeastern Connecticut. On Saturday, business was The tribes’ casinos are on slow at Mohegan Sun, where reservations that are considered sovereign nations. See Closures, A10 ___
Organizations seeking release of prisoners due to COVID-19 By Lauren Sellew Record-Journal staff
A number of organizations are calling for Governor Ned Lamont to release as many state prisoners as possible and place a moratorium on new admissions into the state’s prisons during the COVID-19 crisis. The groups said they were publishing an open letter to Gov. Ned Lamont on Mon-
day calling for urgent action to protect people in the state’s prisons and jails, including employees. The organizations making the requests include the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, the Connecticut Bail Fund, the Global Health Justice Partnership, the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale
Law School and Stop Solitary Connecticut. They said more than 20 other organizations and nearly 375 people had also signed the letter. The letter also calls for evidence-based, humane and rights-affirming measures to protect the health and well being of the people who will remain incarcerated. See Prisoners, A10
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Sunshine Week is the annual nationwide celebration of access to public information and what it means for you and your community, sponsored by News Leaders Association and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Two recent developments involving the Partnership for Connecticut have raised
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state's $20 million annual contribution to the Partnership, according to reports by The Connecticut Mirror. Although the administration says the accounting maneuver is justified by the importance of the partnership’s goals, it has sparked objections from both sides of the aisle in Hartford. See Editorial, A9
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Close upon that controversy came news that Dalio Philanthropies, without consulting the board, had engaged a public relations firm, Global Strategy Group — headed by managing director Roy Occhiogrosso, a well-known political operative who was a senior policy advisor to Gov. Dannel Malloy — to speak for the Partnership.
These developments only reinforce objections that some lawmakers and newspapers, including the Record-Journal, have raised to the special treatment being afforded to this new entity. From the creation of this unusual agency, there has been steady pressure to hold it above the open-government standards that have been a feather in Connecticut’s cap since Gov. Ella Grasso signed the landmark Freedom of Information Act in 1975. As the preamble to the FOI Act declares, “The legislature finds and declares that secrecy in government is inherently inconsistent with a true democracy …” It would be a big step backward to abandon those principles now, even in view of the $100 million that Dalio Philanthropies has pledged to the laudable effort to assist struggling schools.
While the Dalios’ efforts in this regard are worthy of praise, the people of this state have an intrinsic interest in seeing that government — or, in this case, a hybrid, private-public entity — does not conduct its business, and spend taxpayer money, from behind closed doors. Just how public and how private this unusual Partnership should be has been a recurring question for the General Assembly. “These lines are blurred,” said Deputy House Minority Leader Vincent J. Candelora,
R-North Branford, who was the first legislator to object to the partnership's exemption from the state’s FOI statutes and ethics code. While we are concerned about Lamont’s plan to use budgeting tricks to fund the Partnership (“I want to be clear — no more funny math or budgetary gamesmanship,” he said last year), we are more worried about the continuing pressure to shield this public-private entity from the reasonable and necessary laws of our state.
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This was ironic, at best, coming at a time when a legislative panel was looking at a bill to revoke special privacy rules for the Partnership, including its controversial exemption from the state's Freedom of Information law.
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Stop & Shop enacts special shopping times for seniors A message from Stop & Shop: “In order to allow more time for our associates to unload deliveries, stock shelves, and better serve our customers throughout the day, Stop & Shop has adjusted its hours of operation to 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. at most stores beginning Monday, March 16. Effective on Thursday, March 19, Stop & Shop will create hours specifically geared to accommodate customers 60 and older. Stop & Shop stores will open from 6 to 7:30 a.m. only for customers over the age of 60 who the CDC and local health officials say are most vulnerable.
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“This is really good for all of us to be here and it really shows how the State of Connecticut can come together The students made their for a cause,” Larkin said. “It’s message clear. They felt a great feeling being around cheated by the CIAC’s everyone that feels the same decision and wanted to way we do. No one wanted finish the season, even if the season to end this way. it’s in empty gyms with We all just want to keep no spectators. playing whether it’s in front of fans or not. We think it “We just want to play in should be a compromise bethe tournament we cause we don’t feel it should worked so hard to get be ripped away like this.” into,” Sheehan girls basketball senior captain The Sheehan boys basketMaddi Larkin said. “We ball team, led by 1,000-point don’t care how it goes, scorer Garrett Molampy, what day it’s on or if was a senior-laden there are any spectators. squad with high expectaI don’t think anyone tions for the state tournahere cares. We just want ment. to play the games.”
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“We are hoping they can possibly change their minds,” Lyman Hall senior Matt Pettit said. “We worked our (butts) off for four years. It was tough. I hoping they could have done (the state tournament) with no fans. I guarantee everyone here would agree to that. “I would give anything to have another chance to play with my boys,” he added.
In a press conference following the protest, CIAC Executive Director Glenn Lungarini said he had hoped to speak with the protesters. “It was my intention to go out and speak with them,” Lungarini said. “Based on the behavior, we didn’t have the opportunity to do so. I would be happy to speak with people. We’ve spoke with a number of people who reached out. We’ve also spoken to principals and superintendents who thanked us throughout the course of this.”
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He spent six seasons in the minor leagues and one in Japan. In 2016, with DoubleA Hartford, he recorded 29 saves with a 2.31 ERA. Carasiti was called up by the Rockies on Aug. 12 of that season, making his MLB debut the same day, pitching two innings in relief. On June 27, 2017, Carasiti was traded to the Chicago Cubs for Zac Rosscup.
In November 2017, Carasiti had his contract purchased, but was released in December to pursue playing in Japan. He signed with the Tokyo Yakul Swallows of the Nippon Professional Baseball League for one year before returning to the Cubs organization. In June of 2019, following his release from the Cubs, Carasiti signed a minor league contract with the Seattle Mariners and made it on the 45-man
roster, appearing in relief before being sent back to Triple-A . Carasiti continues to pursue his professional career. The Hall of Fame induction dinner is scheduled for Sunday, April 26 at the Aqua Turf, 556 Mulberry St., Plantsville. For ticket information contact Marie Siegal at 860-828-1115, email mvs7581@ yahoo.com or visit bhshalloffame.org.
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