cheshirecitizen.com
Volume 12, Number 33
Thursday, August 19, 2021
New traffic cams are online on area roads By Nick Sambides Jr. Record-Journal staff
Kevin J. Nursick, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation.
Twenty-nine new highway traffic surveillance cameras covering state highways in the Meriden area are coming online at a traffic website as part of the completion of a $24 million installation program.
“Almost all of the new cams installed with the project are online now. We're looking into it now but they all, sans one, maybe two, are all streaming publicly,” Nursick said in an email on Friday.
The new cameras open blind spots in the state’s traffic camera network on Interstates 91 and 691 and Route 15 in Cheshire, Cromwell, Meriden, Middlefield, Middletown and Southington. As of Friday, only one or two were not online at CTTravelSmart.org but will be shortly, said
Three new message signs also are operational. They are located at Route 66 westbound in Middlefield, east of I-691 exit 13; I-691 westbound in Meriden, west of exit 5; and I-691 eastbound in Cheshire, east of exit 3, he said. See Cameras, A2
A traffic cam, left, along Route 15 and I-91 south near the East Main Street overpass in Meriden. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
New Census data shows state becoming more diverse
The great corn debate is a matter of taste
(AP) — While the majority of Connecticut residents are white, new U.S. Census data released last week shows the state is becoming more diverse, with the number of Hispanic residents having grown by approximately 30% over the last decade.
By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
Cheshire people are serious about corn – and why wouldn’t we be? The town boasts of a variety of farms and farm stands, and what could be a sweeter debate than where to get the best ears? See Corn, A4
Beverly Arisco poses as she stocks the fresh corn table at Arisco's Farmstand on Marion Avenue. Joy VanderLek, The Cheshire Citizen
were increases in the number of people of mixed race, Asian, Black, native American and Hawaiian and Pacific Islander descent in Connecticut as well.
Cheri Quickmire, executive director of Common Cause of Connecticut, said the The state’s Hispanic popula- numbers show the importance of getting racially dition increased by 144,206 verse input into the state’s people from 2010 to 2020, while the white population declined by 377,282. There See Census, A3
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