Volume 16, Number 40
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Friday, October 1, 2021
New life for once contaminated property Officials from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Pfizer Inc., joined North Haven officials and community stakeholders on Sept. 9 to celebrate the completion of remediation activities and the opening of a 57-acre preserve at the former Pharmacia & Upjohn Company site at 41 Stiles Lane.
The 78-acre site has a long history of industrial use, dating back more than 125 years to its use as a clay mine and brickyard, and later when it was occupied by Carwin Chemical, Burndy Corporation, Upjohn Chemical, Dow Chemical and Pharmacia Corporation. These owners of the property manufactured products used in dyes and pigments, photographic chemicals, sunscreen
agents, additives for soaps, perfumes and cosmetics; agricultural herbicides, pharmaceuticals and photoinitiators. All manufacturing ceased at the site in 1993. In 2003, Pfizer Inc. acquired Pharmacia Corporation and assumed responsibility for the site, though Pfizer never operated on the property.
Sports facility named after Anthony Longley
Former North Haven Fire Department chief Vincent Landisio was inducted into the Connecticut State Firefighters Association Hall of Fame during a Sept. 23 dinner at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington.
At the Annual Town Meeting, held Monday, Sept. 20, it was decided that the newly reconstructed grounds at North Haven’s Vanacore Field shall be called the “Anthony Longley Athletic Facility.”
Landisio led the NHFD for 12 years. By the time he came to the department, he was already a 20-year Landisio veteran of the fire service.
The field’s namesake, a local honor roll student and multi-sport athlete, died on Dec. 8, 2019 after a 10-year battle with brain cancer. Anthony Longley was just 13 years old.
After leaving his post with the NHFD, Landisio assumed the role of Fire Marshal for the West Shore Fire District in West Haven.
“Anthony will be remembered by his family and friends as a caring, resilient, hardworking, sports loving young man who always had a smile on his face and was the first in line to lend a helping hand to anyone in need and forget about his own health issues,” his obituary reads.
On Dec 9, 2019 the NHHS football team's Twitter account posted the
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Landisio enters the firefighters Hall of Fame
LOCAL BOY BATTLED BRAIN CANCER
Longley was a big fan of the North Haven High School football team, and the feeling was mutual.
The Sept. 9 event marked the end of a decades-long remediation process, with DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes presenting Pfizer with a Stewardship Permit, which defines longterm obligations for maintaining the property, and a ribbon-cutting for Brick Yard Point, a 57-acre preserve and interpretive trail network adjacent to the Quinnipiac River.
North Haven Football, Twitter
following: “We are heartbroken to share that Anthony Longley’s courageous battle with a rare brain cancer is over. Anthony was a North Haven Youth Football player and recipient of our 2014 Spring
Brawl fundraiser. We will always be proud and inspired by how hard he fought and he will remain in our hearts forever.” — Citizen report
Landisio’s Hall of Fame biography reads: “Among his accolades, he was the recipient of eleven New Haven Fire Department Unit Citations, the New Haven Club of Providence College’s Veritas Award, the Distinguished Citizen Award from the North Haven Sons and Daughters of Italy, the New Haven Block Watch Association’s Firefighter of the Year See Firefighter, A2