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Volume 20, Number 3
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Portrait Pioneers
CIAC UPDATE
‘Game on’ for most By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
CHESHIRE — A Connecticut high school winter sports season is officially a go. While games will start a week later than expected and there will be no state tournaments and some teams won’t compete at all, last week a modified winter season was approved by the CIAC Board of Control for basketball, ice hockey, gymnastics and boys swimming. The board determined that practices could start Tuesday, Jan. 19. That’s the start date the CIAC had been eyeing since suspending the winter season in midNovember. Games can start as early as Feb. 8. That’s a one-week delay on the projected start of Feb. 1. The postseason, slated for March 15-28, will be staged by individual conferences. It replaces the traditional state tournaments the CIAC had hoped to run March 8-21. See CIAC, A18
Trey Maestri, owner of Trey's Barbershop in Southington, cuts the hair of customer Mike Nathanson Thursday, Jan. 14 at the 101 Center St. business. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
Health district cuts fees for restaurants and salons By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
to $60,000 for area businesses and a similar hit to the district’s budget.
Health board members hope a cut to annual licensing fees this year will help struggling restaurants, salons and barbershops.
“While most (businesses’) savings are going to be in the neighborhood of $50 to $200, it might be a little bit of breathing room for one of these places,” Lockwood said.
The Plainville-Southington Regional Health District licenses about 600 businesses, overseeing food safety and personal care hygiene. Middlefield also falls under the umbrella of the PlainvilleSouthington Regional Health District. Shane Lockwood, district director, suggested cutting the annual fees for those businesses in half for this year. That will mean a total savings of $50,000
“It’s going to be a loss, obviously, to the health district but we’re going to make it up through delaying filling a position, hitting our reserves or cutting costs this year. We thought it was that important to try to help the businesses every way we can.” Licenses range from $50 to $200.
The inaugural group of Plainville Community Schools’ Portrait Pioneers award winners were recognized Czerwinski at the Jan. 11 Board of Education meeting. Lily Cornielle, John Czerwinski and Morgan Cornielle Campbell are the first recipients of this award, which was established to recognize school district staff members Campbell who exemplify and model the characteristics of the district’s Portrait of the Graduate. This framework includes being: Mindful, Resilient, Communicative, Innovative and Collaborative.
See Fees, A9
See Pioneers, A13
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