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Sixthgrader claims poster prize

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107 new cases reported locally North Haven – like nearly every other Connecticut municipality – is in the coronavirus red zone. The color coded status for cities and towns represents two weeks of cases. The trigger for red status starts at a rate of 15 cases per 100,000 people per day.

Olivia Ranciato, a sixth grade student at North Haven Middle School, is the 2020 winner of the local phase of the 33rd annual Lions International Peace Poster Contest. Ranciato’s poster was selected from almost 200 entries at the middle school for its originality, artistic merit and portrayal of the contest theme—Peace Through Service. The sixth grader’s work is among more than 600,000 entries submitted worldwide. Ranciato commented, “My artwork shows ‘Peace through Service’ by keeping our environment clean and healthy. When everybody comes together and helps out, it brings peace to the world. With people helping the earth, it makes the world healthy and peaceful.” North Haven Lions Club

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North Haven Middle School student Olivia Ranciato (pictured center-left) is congratulated on her winning peace poster.

Peace Poster Contest coordinator Alan Sturtz explained that Ranciato’s poster now has the chance to advance through multiple district and international levels of competition. “Our club is cheering for Olivia as her poster advances to the district competition to be held on Dec. 5.” Sturtz said he was impressed by the expression and creativity of all the North Haven Middle School students’ artwork. “It is obvious that these young people have

strong ideas about what peace means to them. I am proud that we were able to provide them with the opportunity to share their visions,” he said. “We also want to express our sincere appreciation to the art teachers at the middle school – Betsy Titus, Chris Miller and Michelle Fogarty – for working with our club in this contest over the last five years.” Lions Clubs international is See Poster, A4

The state’s most recent report, issued Nov. 30, showed 107 positive cases in North Haven. That works out to an average of 32.3 daily cases per 100,000 people.

Connecticut’s coronavirus hospitalizations topped 1,000 as of Friday, Nov. 27 with 1,107 — the highest level since the pandemic’s first wave in May. Experts fear that Thanksgiving will prompt another sharp upward trend in cases, but it will take a week or two for case counts to show whether that happened. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “People with See COVID, A4

Gift card distribution The Department of Community Services for the Town of North Haven announced that North Haven residents are welcome to register for the 2020 Holiday Gift Card Distribution. The Holiday Gift Card Distribution is intended for North Haven parents or guardians with children age 18 and under who are facing financial hardship.

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In Brief Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m., the North Haven Camera club will present a floral photography program by Padma Ingua, who will share information about some of her techniques in creating stunning flower portraits. If you are interested in joining this online presentation as a guest, email northhavencameraclub@gmail.com.

ments, phone appointments will be available to residents Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Application paperwork can either be emailed or mailed to you, or you can pick up the paperwork from a clearlymarked box located outside the Town Hall Annex building. For more information, call 203-239-2566 Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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The town is implementing a new alert system to communicate with citizens and businesses during emergencies and other critical events. The North Haven Citizen Alert System is provided through Everbridge, a company specializing in mass communication services for government organizations, to keep residents safe and informed with fast and reliable emergency notifications and public service announcements.

The non-profit Pajama Program provides new pajamas and new books to children in need, many of whom are waiting and hoping to be adopted.

Residents and businesses may sign up for the alert system via the municipal website, northhaven-ct.gov. All information provided will be kept strictly confidential and will not be used for any other purposes.

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Students in grades 4 through 8 are eligible to create a sculpture of recyclable, reused and reduced materials. Entries are due to the North Haven Garden Club by Jan. 10, 2021. To obtain an entry form, email nhgccindy@yahoo.com.

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There may be aspects of your financial life that are meeting your expectations and others that aren’t. Most important is to determine if you are on track to achieve key financial goals. Are you saving enough for retirement or your kids’ college education? Do you have enough in your emergency fund? Are your investments well positioned for the long run?

war between spending money and saving it. If you can find ways to trim your spending, you’ll have more money to set aside toward your most important goals, such as retirement and education funding. It may start by establishing a spending cap for each month.

Boost your retirement plan contributions Any time you receive a raise at work, consider adjusting the money you set aside for your retirement accounts by a comparable percentage. For example, if you invest $200 per paycheck into your workplace retirement plan, and then receive a 3 percent raise, consider increasing

A rainy day fund is foundational to your financial plan. In times when you face an increased risk of an interruption to your income (like in today’s more economically-challenged environment), it takes on added importance. You want at least three-to-six months of expenses covered by your emergency fund. If you are short of that, make a priority of adding to it.

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Protecting transportation increases budget deficit By Keith M. Phaneuf © The Connecticut Mirror

After chastising legislators for rejecting his calls for tolls, Gov. Ned Lamont faces another budget quandary centered on Connecticut’s cash-starved transportation network. With big deficits looming over the next two fiscal years, Lamont already is expected to propose some ugly spending cuts in February as he tries to avoid tax hikes while potentially gearing up to seek re-election in 2022. Or, to mitigate those unpleasant options, he could try to steer money away from transportation — which could lead some to question his commitment to the program.

immediate budget challenge A history of broken involves a commitment to promises to invest in steer more resources — specifically, tax receipts from transportation motor vehicle sales — away The first is rooted in recent from the General Fund and history. into the Special TransportaConnecticut governors and tion Fund. legislatures have been pledgThe governor is supposed to ing — and for the most part deliver an extra $180 million reneging — on promises to to the STF next fiscal year, dedicate more resources to and then boost the annual transportation for the past 15 transfer by another $90 mil- years. lion in 2022-23. That’s happened 10 times Lamont could argue the between 2007 and 2019, costGeneral Fund simply can’t ing the STF a potential $650 spare these resources right million in annual funding — now as it tries to avoid tax even as fuel taxes rose. hikes at the worst possible time.

According to the state Department of Labor, nearly 190,000 residents currently are collecting weekly unemployment benefits. By com“I have no intent to change parison, the state lost roughthe law” and shift funding ly 120,000 jobs in the last reaway from transportation, cession, which ran from Dethe governor said Monday. cember 2007 through mid“But my life would be a heck 2009. Connecticut’s restauof a lot easier if they [legisla- rants and the rest of its hostors] could vote on a plan.” pitality sector remain particLamont asked lawmakers in ularly fragile, with COVID-19 cases climbing upward since 2019 to approve tolls on all vehicles and, in 2020, to im- late August. And with the coronavirus slowing demand pose fees just on large trucks. Lawmakers acted on for transit programs, the neither but also approved no governor could argue this program could tighten its substitute plan to fund transportation over the long belt for another year. haul. The governor also noted that the sales tax, the secondMeanwhile, the state budlargest revenue engine after get’s General Fund will run the income tax, really was $2.1 billion in deficit next designed to cover the Generfiscal year unless adjustal Fund. ments are made, nonpartisan analysts warned Friday. “It doesn’t really impress me That’s a 10% shortfall. as a strategy, Let’s borrow The governor and legislature from Peter to pay Paul,” Lamont said. are expected to use Connecticut’s record-setting, The transportation fund has $3.1 billion rainy day fund to been primarily supported mitigate that problem. with a combination of levies But analysts also project po- on fuels and with motor vetential deficits of $2.2 billion hicles fees. It covers the debt service on the hundreds of and $2.1 billion in the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years, respec- millions of dollars Connecticut borrows annually to fix tively. That means the reroads, bridges and rail lines. serve might need to be spread over several years to But if Lamont or the legislacushion the blow as Conture were not to deliver the necticut recovers from the sales tax revenues to transcoronavirus-induced recesportation, as planned, it sion. would raise several probAnd a significant part of the lems.

Over the same period, Connecticut’s infrastructure has gotten older and more overcrowded. Transportation officials already have warned Connecticut’s annual spending on infrastructure falls several hundred million dollars short of the level needed to do anything more than basic maintenance.

portation over two years in 2019.

And while most of those broken promises predated Lamont, he and his fellow Democrats in the legislature’s majority shaved $170 million off pledged sales tax revenue transfers to trans-

House Minority Leader Vincent J. Candelora, R-North Branford, noted that the accelerating sales tax revenue transfers to transportation were ordered in 2017

State analysts warned Friday that even given the current, modest pace of the transportation rebuilding program, the STF — absent more resources — is running in deficit this year and faces insolvency by 2024.

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Holiday food collection North Haven's Annual Holiday Food Drive, sponsored by the Churches of North Haven, is collecting nonperishable food items to include in holiday boxes that will be delivered to families of North Haven for the holidays. Non-perishable food items can be donated directly to the Food Pantry at the North Haven Congregational Church weekday mornings, 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Also, collection bins

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Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, co-chairman of the legislature’s Transportation Committee and a supporter of tolls, said he understands why Lamont doesn’t plan to push that option again in 2021: The political will simply isn’t there. But Lemar said absent some other long-term plan to finance transportation, Connecticut cannot afford to strip those sales tax revenues away. Expanded transportation construction programs and healthy bus and rail transit services are vital to the state’s future economic growth, he said.

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Lamont also must hope, if he should again block funds The second problem Lamont for transportation, that new faces if he siphons revenues problems don’t crop up with away from transportation in- Connecticut’s aging network volves the state Constitution. of overcrowded highways, bridges and rail lines. By an eight-to-one margin, voters in 2018 overwhelmAnd Don Shubert, president ingly ratified the so-called of the Connecticut Con“lockbox” amendment that struction Industry Associaprohibits state officials — tion, noted recently that the once a new funding source industry had regained only for transportation has been half the 20,000 jobs it lost in established — from spendthe last recession — until the ing the funds on something pandemic struck and elimielse. nated all of that recovery.

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The watchword is caution A second wave of COVID-19 infections is sweeping the state and the nation, and with the biggest holidays of the year now upon us, many people seem to be putting COVID fatigue ahead of COVID caution. This does not bode well for public health in the near future.

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If there was ever a time for caution, it’s now. And although many of the worst cases in the early days of the pandemic occurred in nursing homes and assisted-living centers, administrators have learned much about controlling the virus through such measures as the use of better personal protective equipment, more frequent testing of staff as well as residents, more stringent disinfection procedures, and various levels of restriction of visitation.

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Managers of nursing homes in Connecticut deserve credit for this intensified watchfulness — but they do note that a recent spike in community spread is working against them. “If we don't control the community spread,” Collette said, “it will be difficult if not impossible to control inside of nursing homes.” Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that ConSee Editorial, A9

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Grocery stores impacted by disruption of supply chain as workers quarantine By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff

As lines outside grocery stores become a common sight once more, suppliers and distributors are working around quarantines disrupting the supply chain to keep food and household supplies flowing to the shelves for holiday shoppers. “We’re in the middle of a pandemic and it's changed

the supply chain drastically ... and our manufacturers are doing whatever they can,” said Bill Rosa, owner of The Russell Hall Co. in Meriden.

The company generally supplies plastic packaging and cleaning supplies to restaurants, delis, schools and nursing homes, but during the pandemic grocery stores have become a new clientele for paper towels and toilet paper.

Though the company hasn’t run into issues with not being able to fulfill its orders, Rosa said manufacturers have had to contend with both quarantines reducing their workforce and social distancing requirements changing the workflow on their shop floors. According to the Associated Press, around 10 percent of workers at cleaning supply manufacturing plants are

calling out sick each day. That’s led to a 21 percent reduction in paper towels and toilet paper on store shelves nationwide and a 16 percent reduction in cleaning supplies on store shelves. Before the pandemic, 5 to 7 percent of consumer goods were typically out of stock, market research company IRI said. The AP reported that Walmart has seen a rise in demand for cleaning supplies

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A customer walks by the toilet paper in stock at the Tops Marketplace in Southington Nov. 24. Photos by Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal

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Though the shelves at Tops Marketplace in Southington haven’t been emptied of paper towels and toilet paper, owner John Salerno said name brand items do sell out quickly. There have also been spot shortages throughout the pandemic, where one item in particular will be in short supply for a week or so. Shelves at local stores were “wiped out” of pasta a few months ago, specialty milks

like oat milk have been harder to come across and non-perishables like canned beans and soup have been intermittently scarce. “There are shortages out there, but not long lasting,” he said. Salerno attributes the shortages to a combination of increased demand, including holiday shoppers in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, and trucks getting delayed at various points in the supply chain. See Stores, A15

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Farm sales rise during pandemic By Nadya Korytnikova Record-Journal staff

DURHAM – Large-scale quarantine, travel restrictions, social distancing, and increased unemployment all caused a sharp drop in consumer spending and had a lethal effect on many businesses across the country. But despite the uncertainty

of the pandemic, some local farmers have flourished this year. Coronavirus brought the country to a standstill for parts of 2020. Restaurants shut down and grocery stores suddenly posed an infection risk, making people rethink the ways they source their food.

“No one wanted to go to the supermarket when the pandemic started. But people still wanted their vegetables and fruits, so they came to us,” said David Zemelsky, owner of Starlight Gardens. This year, his sales increased by 20 percent. “Over time, people have gotten more comfortable going to the grocery stores, but our sales are still higher than before,” said Zemelsky.

A curious cow at Deerfield Farm, 337 Parmelee Hill Road, in Durham. Photos by Nadya Korytnikova

Before the pandemic, Zemelsky sold about half of his produce to restaurants. When eateries shut down, he sold his crops at farm markets in New Haven, Madison and Durham. “Farmers did okay during the pandemic. I know that we did and I think other small farms did well too,” said Zemelsky.

John Salerno, owner of Tops Marketplace, shows the limited supply of organic milk in stock on Nov. 24.

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“I think it’s production, I really do. Because if they have a plant that experiences COVID all the sudden it shuts the plant down for a week,” he said. ” … Even our warehouse, even they got hit. They had trucks delayed... You’re supposed to get a truck on Tuesday and you don’t get it until Wednesday.”

Salerno said. “Restaurants are hurting so were buying a lot from our restaurant suppliers.” dleithyessian@ record-journal.com

Vivian Diglio-Caturano, owner of J.C. Farm & Greenhouses, has seen revenue grow 25 percent. Diglio-Caturano also cultivates and sells flowers. She usually closes her store sometime between HalSee Farms, A17

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