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“Staff will be utilizing this time to make interior improvements that would be difficult to complete while remaining open,” Piezzo said, adding that staff will be checking messages and returning calls “the same day if you have questions about your library account or the online/off-site programs we are offering during this time.”

For more information, visit cheshirelibrary.org or call 203-272-2245.

Fire department celebration

The Cheshire Fire Department held its biennial dance and awards presentation May 5 at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville. Members were recognized for their years of active service to the department, and Benjamin Barry (HQ), Christopher Owen (Station 3) and Zachary Schiavi (Company 2) earned “Captain’s Choice” awards. In a social media post following the May 5 gathering, the CFD said “962 years of combined service time” was represented in the crowd.

“This dance started in the late 50s and was held every year until recent years when it was changed to every other,” the department stated.

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A shorter early voting period would be offered for elections other than the November general election: seven days for state and local primaries, and four days for special elections and presidential primaries.

With a local option for additional sites, municipalities would have to offer early voting at a minimum of one location from the hours of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on 12 days and from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the Tuesday and Thursday before Election Day.

including staffing over two weekends.Republicans said even with state reimbursement, 14 days of early voting would be an unnecessary burden for small towns, which already struggle to recruit temporary workers for election day.

“I understand that we’re going to fund it, but it’s getting the people to work it, to run it and to make it safe,” said Rep. Jay Case, R-Winsted.

“Some of our registrars are part time. How are they going to take 14 days to see this in a small town?

Malia

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Show of mercy

Malia writes that Campbell “is the only known enemy combatant honored by the very American town he invaded with both a monument and a principal avenue named in his honor.” tenacity that they initially drove the British advance guard back several hundred yards,”

British troops, including Campbell, stormed New Haven in July 1779, but, as Malia explains, “Under the command of Captain James Hillhouse and Col.

Some of those militiamen, Malia adds, were from Cheshire, “as troops from all over New Haven County descended upon New Haven to fight the British.”

When a Reverend Williston was injured during the melee, Campbell ordered his troops to show mercy.

“We make war on soldiers, not civilians,’ Campbell was allegedly overheard saying. He ordered the troopers to carry the minister back to the parsonage, and then summoned the regimental surgeon to set Williston’s leg,” writes Malia.

“We didn’t want to force one version onto the towns, especially as we’re starting out here,” said Blumenthal, a key sponsor as the co-chair of the Government Administration and Elections Committee.

“That to me is the epitome of inefficiency,” said Rep. Doug Dubitsky, a Republican from Chaplin, an eastern Connecticut community with a population of 2,200.

Aaron Burr, who happened to be visiting his uncle, Pierpont Edwards, in New Haven at the time, a ragtag army of some 150 Yale students, militiamen and Connecticut Foot Guardsmen had dug in behind a stone wall along the top of Milford Hill. They defended the hill with such pprohaska@record-journal.com

A small monument exists for Campbell, but official recognition is a work in progress, much like the full story of the past.

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Legislative leaders have pledged to include funding in the state budget for municipalities to cover the added costs of early voting,

Republican amendments to limit the length of voting to either three days or 10 failed on party-line votes.

A longer version of this story originally appeared on the website of The Connecticut Mirror, ctmirror.org.