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Affordable housing proposal rejected The Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously rejected an affordable housing zone that a developer sought to allow construction of 11 multi-story buildings with 319 apartments.
Ava Barbagallo, 10, of Berlin, holds a goat at the Berlin Fair petting zoo on Friday, Sept. 13. The three-day event wrapped up Sunday. Photos by Devin Leith-Yessian, The Citizen
As usual, volunteers helped make the fair a success That seems like a good time to remember that the late summer staple has reTens of thousands of visimained a volunteer-driven tors flock to the Berlin Fair event, giving dozens of loeach year and the event cal faith, civic and educamakes for some of the busi- tional organizations a est three days in town. On chance to participate – and Sunday evening, the Berlin is a significant source of Lions Club wrapped up its fundraising for them. Many 71st year of operations, familiar faces are seen beheld Sept. 13-15, and hind the grills and counters closed the gates at the serving up recipes perfectBeckley Road fairgrounds. ed in communal kitchens that are then transformed
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Since Berlin is under the 10 percent threshold of affordable housing prescribed by state housing statutes, the commission’s ability to reject the proposal was limited to issues “necessary to protect substantial public interests in health, safety or other matters which the commission may legally consider.” Residents who attended public hearings in June and July were also uniformly opposed to the changes. The PZC voted occurred on Sept. 11. "With respect even to the road safety, the road widths and the proposal in the text amendment allow for a
After that meeting, the commission directed Town Planner Marek Kozikowski to draft a written motion outlining its reasons for rejecting the amendments. The document describes Atkins Street and surrounding roads as “narrow, rural farm roads with no existing stormwater, sanitary sewer, or water infrastructures; no shoulders or sidewalks; poor road conditions; and difficult site lines. A development with the density proposed would have detrimental impacts on traffic in the area as supported by the significant amount testimony received by the commission from residents.” See Housing, A6
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building to be 20 feet off the street with no sidewalks on a narrow roadway that two cars have a hard enough time passing to begin with ... to me it is outrageous to think that the applicant thinks that that's a reasonable proposal," PZC Vice Chairperson Diane Jorsey said during the commission’s first round of deliberations on Aug. 22.
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Stump removal may proceed this spring By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
The removal of tree stumps on town property along the banks of roads and sidewalks could begin in the spring if money can be saved throughout the rest of the year, according to a presentation by Public Works Director Michael Ahern to the Town Council earlier this month. With an estimated average cost of $500 to remove each of the approximately 75 stumps he has identified, Ahern said the number that could be grinded down this spring, if any, is entirely dependant on how much money might be left as the end of the fiscal year nears, though road repairs would take priority.
like to get the stumps out, but I would like to see that this is a project for the whole community," Powers said.
"I think we should have an arborist ... planting trees to replace many of those that have been taken down and have the arborist, of course, recommend trees that will The next step Powers would not grow up into the wires,” like to see the town take is to he said. plant new trees to replace those that were felled to replace the thick canopy he said the street was once TREE SERVICE known for.
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While he said he couldn’t blame the utility company for trying to reduce outages by removing trees which could damage lines during inclement weather, he said the number of stumps left behind created an eyesore in the historic district.
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In future years, Ahern suggested that increasing his department’s annual allocation for tree removal by around $5,000 would allow them to set aside money to chip away at the number of stumps around town over the course of a few years. He also suggested that utilizing contractors would be more cost effective to the town than purchasing grinding OF...
Most of the stumps marked for eventual removal are in the historic district centered around Worthington Ridge. Former mayor and Worthington Ridge resident Arthur Powers first broached the issue in the spring after a large number of trees along the road were removed by Eversource Energy as part of their annual tree culling.
"I don't intend to push Worthington Ridge over the others. They are a historic district and obviously the historic district people would
"If we have paving work to do or drainage work to do, I'd rather, for obvious reasons, pave a road than take out 20 stumps. Or fix a broken drain line,” he said.
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"There's an effort here to recognize that people who live in town or work in town, candidly, don't necessarily make enough to buy in town,” Bercham said. “This project ... will allow a teacher, a fireman, a policeman, to stay in Berlin ... Right now, the availability of rental stock is simply so low as to be almost nonavailable."
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Vietnam veterans honored in Berlin ceremony By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
you are an amazing, patriotic and resilient group of people that persevered through Giving an overdue thanks for some of the most difficult all the trauma those who combat ... and you came served in Vietnam went back, having survived all of through on the battlefield that, raised very beautiful and upon returning home to families, started very proa hostile country, Lt. Gover- ductive careers and particinor Susan Bysiewicz held a pated in this community and ceremony recognizing contributed in so many ways around 80 veterans who to our beautiful state. So we served in the war. have the opportunity to say The event was held Monday, an overdue, but emphatic Sept. 9 at the McGee Middle thank you for everything that you did for our country," School auditorium. The Ring Tones perform God Bless America during a ceremony to recognize Berlin Bysiewicz said. veterans who served in the Vietnam War. Photos by Devin Leith-Yessia, The Citizen "I think we realized years too late that our country made a The lieutenant governor has tion to support all veterans. visited municipalities across cluding Deputy Mayor Bren- After learning of the insults mistake in not saying thank and attacks his own cousin den Luddy, state Rep. you to you upon your return. the state to pay homage to "To our Vietnam and Vietveterans of Vietnam, Korea Catherine Abercrombie and faced after returning from And the Vietnam era is, for nam-era veterans, whether Vietnam, Saadi said he has and the Second World War, state Sen. Gennaro Bizzarro, that reason, very painful and which her father served in. as well as Thomas Saadi, the seen the veterans of that war you served in country or in a very complicated time in support of theater operabecome a driving force to In Berlin, she was joined by commissioner of the Conour country's history. But tions, or somewhere around local elected officials, innecticut Department of Vet- make sure today’s veterans the globe, you served. You do not face what they went erans Affairs. through 50 years ago. He still raised your right hand and took that solemn oath to One by one, Bysiewicz preIn Brief keeps the 7th Cavalry Regiprotect and defend this nasented each veteran with a ment patch his cousin gave tion ...” he said. “I thank you citation thanking them for to him in his office to reington Congregational for your service, for standing their service and Saadi GOP fundraiser mind him of his own obligaChurch, 860-828-4511. awarded them a pin. See Veterans, A9 A Berlin Republican Town Committee Candidate Cocktail Party will be held Satur- Walk For Autism WORTHINGTON FIRE DISTRICT day, Sept. 21, 6 to 9 p.m., at The 2nd Annual Benhaven COLLECTOR’S NOTICE the home of Charles and Le- Walk for Autism will take cia Paonessa, 1906 Champlace Sunday, Sept. 29 at TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THE WORTHINGTON FIRE DISTRICT, BERLIN, CT: berlain Highway. Meet the North Haven Middle Republican candidates and School. The event features a learn what they hope to acWater/Sewer bills have been mailed to all residents of the Worthington Fire District. All persons 2-mile walk and a celebracomplish. Tickets are liable to pay Water/Sewer Fees in, and to, the Worthington Fire District of the Town of Berlin, tion offering live music, $20 and can be purchased in food, refreshments and CT, are hereby notified that payments for the October 2019 Water/Sewer Billing Cycle are due advance or at the door. and payable in full on or before Tuesday, October 1, 2019. SAID CHARGES SHALL BECOME more. To learn more about
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up for your brother and sister veterans after you returned home to ensure that today, this country respects, thanks and supports all of our veterans and members of our military.” During an open microphone where veterans were invited to share some of their stories, Henry Stefanowicz said
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he was excited for the ceremony as a chance to meet more of his “blood brothers,” fellow Berlin natives who he did not know he shared this bond with. He encouraged all those in attendance to continue ensuring that servicemembers continue receiving the support they deserve by giving to Hero Boxes, a Berlin nonprofit which sends boxes of supplies to soldiers serving in the Middle East. Its annu-
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al box-packing event is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Nov. 9 at the New Britain Veterans of Foreign Wars post. "Come down and join us. Help us, be part of it. And trust me, if you come on Nov. 9, you will leave with such a good feeling in your heart and soul you will be back every year after that," Stefanowicz said. "We have one more mission to complete.”
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The event features live music, a dog and human costume contest, fun dog trick and talent contests, food, raffle prizes, and much more. To register your dog for the contests, or to be a sponsor or vendor, visit theanimalhavenct.org.
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General admission is $3. Children 12 and under enter for free. Car registration is $10. Flea market spaces are $15. The market opens at 7 a.m. For more information, call Deborah Shapiro at 860-344-0033.
Carvers needed Hungerford’s Pumpkin Palooza is back and more than 200 pumpkins need to be carved. Come carve pumpkins on Tuesday, Oct. 15 and Wednesday, Oct. 16. All ages, 2 to 5 p.m. Adults only, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call 860-827-9064 or visit newbritainyouthmuseum.org.
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All eyes at the Middlesex County Historical Society’s 34th Annual Antique Car Show and Flea Market will gravitate to this year’s featured car, a 1966 Ford Mustang retractable hardtop designed and built by chief Ford engineer Ben J. Smith. The Mustang will motor to the show located at Palmer Field adjacent to Washington Street, Route 66 in Middletown on Sunday, Oct. 6. Car registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Judging starts at 11:30 a.m., with trophies awarded to the top vehicles at 2:30.
Pine Loft Cafe presents a new Saturday music series. Admission is $20. Sept. 28 – Connecticut's own Bill Wallach, Don Sineti and Steve Roys performing sea shanties, Americana, instrumentals and more.
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Saturday, see supercars of the past in New Britain This Saturday, Sept. 21, Klingberg Vintage Motorcar event will be a treat for car lovers and history buffs alike. The event will offer a unique contrast between today’s supercars of power and style and vintage supercars of the past.
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Locally, hemp farming grows new life in old farms By Mary Ellen Godin Record-Journal staff
BERLIN — Sunny Border Nurseries Inc. on Kensington Avenue is about three weeks from harvesting its first hemp crop. As one of the first growers granted a license under the state’s hemp pilot program in June, Sunny Border wasted no time planting cannabis seeds on day one. After a summer in the farm’s 11 greenhouses, 15,000 hemp plants now range from three inches to almost four feet. Sunny Border is also one of two operations licensed to process cannabidiol, or CBD, from the plants and has applied for a manufacturer’s license to make and distribute products. “Being that it’s in its infancy stage, there are a lot of people preying on the innocence of farmers,” said coowner Randy Persaud. “That’s why they call it a pilot program. Instead of shipping from California, Washington, Oregon, we can produce it here to fulfill the demand here. We want to take
it from seed to CBD. We’re trying to create the ‘farm to table CBD.’” Hemp is considered a booming industry in the state because the plant, a type of cannabis, produces a non-psychoactive substance known as CBD oil, which is used to treat inflammation, pain and anxiety. Entrepreneurs have incorporated it into lotions, pills, tinctures and candies, and in pet products. But because it doesn’t have federal Food and Drug Administration approval, manufacturers and distributors can’t make health claims. Hemp refers to varieties of the cannabis plant that have Randy Persaud, left, and Dan Laviana are the co-owners of Sunny Border Nurseries Inc. in Berlin. The business is about three weeks away from harvesting its first hemp crop. less than 0.3 percent THC Dave Zajac, Record-Journal and no psychotropic effects. It is federally defined as the plant cannabis sativa L. The ers and pull in profits of Growers were granted conWhen Marc Laviana, the for2018 federal 2018 Farm Bill $37,500 to $150,000, accord- ditional licenses because the mer owner of Sunny Border removes hemp from the ing to The Connecticut Mir- national background check Nurseries in Berlin, died two Federal Controlled Subror. could not be completed in years ago, his son, Dan Lastances Act and recognized time for the growing season. viana, was at a loss to sushemp as an agricultural crop The state licensed 82 hemp tain the 90-year old farm Anyone who grows or cultigrowers, two processors, and vates hemp must be licensed that had been in the family by the federal government. 21 manufacturers in the pifor 50 years. by the state Department of The Connecticut Farm Bulot program, allowing for the Agriculture. reau Association estimated cultivation, harvesting, pro“The industry needed a last spring that an acre of cessing, and manufacturing breath of fresh air or a shot Opp ortunity hemp could generate 500 to of hemp plants and byprodof adrenaline, some new State officials and farmers 1,500 pounds of dried flowucts. revenue streams to get it say hemp could help strugrunning again,” said PerIn total, there are currently gling plant and dairy farms saud. 294 acres of land being used diversify their product lines. to grow hemp in ConnectiSeveral licenses were grant- Persaud is a real estate redecut, according to informaveloper from New York, ed in Berlin, one grower is tion from Gov. Ned Lamwhose family is connected licensed in Cheshire, and ont’s office. with Laviana. He evaluated another in Meriden. the business and saw potential. Complete Affordable
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Kaczynski said the massive effort that keeps the fair going matches the everyday volunteerism that keeps the town running.
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At the Legion’s fair booth, “You work out by the window, you get to meet them all – senior citizens right down to the ones in the strollers,” Trigila said.
Other associations contributed to the fair by lending helping hands to the Lions, including Berlin High As for the dozens of food choices, Berlin’s mayor said School’s Upbeat and Interact his favorite would have to be clubs. Students helped run the American Legion’s shells food booths and helped direct people getting off the and meat sauce. But the shuttle buses. raised doughnuts and fried dough were top choices, too. As a novel way of fundraisVinny Trigila, commander of ing, students in the Interact Club could be seen pushing American Legion Post 68, strollers packed with recysaid the fair is the group’s largest fundraiser of clables around the fairgrounds, keeping the bins the year, supporting assisfrom filling up and raising tance for veterans’ utility bills and an annual scholar- money through bottle returns to send students ship for a Berlin High to leadership conferences School graduate. It also and award scholarships. helps the group connect with the community, both “It just shows them it’s good for recruitment and to show to serve the community,” off the many events memsaid Lisa Downey, the club’s bers hold in town. advisor and a math teacher
at BHS. “It also teaches them The first visitor to her table a lot about recycling.” on Friday morning was a The students were motivated Vietnam veteran so impactand Downey said they didn’t ed by the good will being shown to today’s soldiers even require her direction, that he began to cry. By the allowing her to focus on end of the conversation he sorting through the flow of pledged to return for the recyclables – and ward off nonprofit’s annual boxthe bees. packing event, scheduled for Karen Cote, founder of Hero Nov. 9. Boxes – a local nonprofit “This is the only booth at the that sends care packages to whole fair where people overseas service members cry,” Cote said. – said the fair is a special time for her, since it introIn a memorable moment duces her to veterans excitfrom last year’s fair, Cote ed about her efforts.
said two visitors began singing the national anthem, silencing the entire area. After they subsided, Caitlin Williams, who served in Iraq, stopped by to ask about the commotion. She was so struck by Hero Boxes’ mission that she began volunteering and this year joined Cote behind the nonprofit’s table. “The fair is amazing, what a place to make connections when you’re a nonprofit,” Cote said.
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Hemp
It also has rules, lots of them.
Those involved with growing hemp are subject to criminal stream,” Persaud said. “Dan background checks. The wanted to just pick up on his seeds must be certified by dad’s legacy. It was his cathe state and federal governreer for his entire life.” ment. Plots and buildings where hemp is grown or Persaud was interested in stored must have GPS idenrecreational marijuana growing, but when the state tification. Owners are responsible for pre-harvest General Assembly failed to sampling and testing. They pass legislation this spring, must also meet requirehemp production provided ments for THC testing rean alternative. ports, harvest reports and Hemp had promise with its destruction reports. The multiple uses — as a fiber state Department of Agriculproduct for hay or bedture conducts random inding and rope and the burspections and sampling for geoning CBD industry, THC content. which comes from seeds, Persaud knew it would be a flowers and leaves. challenge to get approvals. To obtain a license in the pi- Should recreational marijualot program, the state dena be legalized, Sunny Bormands a research and marder is ready. keting plan. Plans are to separate the From A12
Worker Aurelia Romero hand trims hemp plants at Sunny Border Nurseries Inc. in Berlin last week. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
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Yet when the Department of Revenue Services released a policy statement to instruct retailers on how to apply the new tax, it was applied to a much wider range of prepared foods.
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The tax on prepared foods remained in the new state budget — but instead of giving the money to the towns, the state would keep the revenue. But regardless of who was getting the tax receipts, the tax itself was described largely as a tax on restaurant food or on “prepared meals.” In other words, someone who purchased a grinder and small soda combination, even at a supermarket, would pay the extra tax.
The legislature’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis estimated back in early June that the tax surcharge would raise $48.3 million between Oct. 1 and the end of the fiscal year on June 30, and $65.8 million in 2020-21, during its first full fiscal year of implementation.
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“I’m still waiting for the Republican budget,” said Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague, cochairwoman of the Appropriations Committee. “I feel it is a little bit disingenuous.”
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Frozen deserts of less than one pint; Lettuce or greensbased salads in containers of From A16 eight ounces or less; Doughnuts, muffins, rolls bagels “It opens up so many items and pastries if five or fewer to taxation,” said Deputy are sold at one time; Loose House Minority Leader Vincookies, if less than five are cent Candelora, R-North Branford. “… At best this [tax “They consider this a meal,” sold at one time; Pizza, cake and pie, if sold by the slice; legislation] was slippy work. Fasano said, holding up a Hot dogs served heated or At worst it was very purpose- power bar. on a bun; Popcorn, kettle ful.” What was described as a tax corn and nuts served heated; GOP lawmakers predicted Soup sold in containers on prepared meals evolved the new tax, which was into a levy on meals, snacks holding eight ounces or less; adopted by the DemocratCooked chicken sold by the and other foods that could controlled legislature and piece, and whole cooked be purchased and consigned by Gov. Ned Lamont, sumed with little or no work, chickens; “Meal replacealso a Democrat, will ment" bars. Candelora said. amount to a sweeping sales Democratic legislative leadSmaller quantities of pretax hike on many consumers said Republican criticism pared foods subject to the ables that most residents of the budget are unfair, givnew tax include: consider to be groceries — en that the GOP offered no and which therefore should Popsicles and ice cream plan last spring. be tax-exempt. cones sold individually; Sandwiches and grinders — whether sold at a restaurant, grocery store or convenience store — were included in the memo listing “examples of taxable meals.” But so were much smaller quantities of prepared foods.
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