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Volume 16, Number 5
Federal inspection sought
Audit targets manufacturers
By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
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to audit annually until the task was delegated to municipalities in Tax bills totaling some 2009. This was the first $230,000 were sent to 10 year Plainville conductmanufacturers after an ed an audit. audit found the compaHeering said her office nies had under-reported equipment and other is free to audit any business in town. assets.
A train that derailed in the area of Russell Avenue Sunday night was put back on the tracks by Monday afternoon. No significant injuries were reported, though one railroad worker suffered bruises after being thrown from a tanker car, according to Town Manager Robert Lee.
Town assessor Ann Marie Heering said she believes the under-reporting was the result of not understanding depreciation and what assets are exempt from local property tax under the state exemption for manufacturing machinery and equipment.
The cause of the incident, which occurred shortly after 10 p.m., is under investigation. The engine was pushing three empty propane tankers back to the rail yard after delivering a propane shipment in Southington when the train derailed, Lee said. The injured worker was riding the lead tanker.
“I don’t believe it’s because people are intentionally trying to cheat the system,” Heering told the Town Council during a recent meeting. “It really has more to do with the fact that there are items they put on the exemption form that don’t qualify.”
“(Firefighters) were quickly able to determine that there was no leakage of the propane. They were returning the tanks to get refilled, so they were empty,” Lee said.
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A train returning empty propane trailers derailed in Plainville on Sunday, March 1. No significant injuries were sustained in the incident. Images courtesy of Plainville Town Manager Robert Lee
The businesses audited were randomly selected from a list of 79 manufacturers, a business category the state used
The firm XYZ conducted the audit, which involved an inspection of the businesses. Once the audit was complete, businesses were encouraged to meet with the town and auditors, an offer all the companies took up. The audit cost the town $10,000. “For the money we spent, clearly we’re getting our money’s worth,” Town Councilor Christopher Wazorko said.
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A small crane returned the rail cars to the tracks by Monday afternoon.
“I picked the manufacturers because they always were audited ... Again, you’ll find a lot of things that are listed on the manufacturing exemption that just don’t meet the criteria,” she said during the Feb. 17 council meeting.
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In Brief Food pantry benefit A holistic fair benefiting the Plainville Food Pantry will take place Sunday, March 22, 12 to 4 p.m., at the VFW Hall, 7 Northwest Drive. The event will feature more than 45 vendors. A donation of a nonperishable food or beverage item, or $5, is requested. Also, clothing items will be collected.
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The Plainville Veterans Memorial Wall is located on the main floor of the Municipal Center. Applications to add a veterans name to the wall are available at the Municipal Center, Senior Center, American Legion Post 33 and VFW Post 534.
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Hall nominations The Plainville Sports Hall of Fame committee is looking for nominees to consider for induction. Nominations can be submitted via plainvillesports.com, or mailed to Plainville Sports Hall of Fame, P.O. Box 593, Plainville, CT 06062.
Wheeler Clinic's 35th Annual Golf Classic will be held Monday, June 8 at the Country Club of Farmington. To register, or to sponsor the event, visit wheelerclinic.org. The committee asks that newspaper articles/scrapbooks support nominations. Wellness programs Committee members are available to pick up, copy Redeemer’s A.M.E. Zion and return the items. For Church, 112 Whiting St., ofmore information, contact fers workshops and semiByron Treado at 860-836nars promoting spiritual, 3377 or Mike Bakaysa at 860emotional and physical 573-8015. health and wellness in the region.
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Several PARC events on tap this spring
Upcoming events include the Spring Dance on Saturday, March 28; an Applebee’s pancake breakfast on
Sunday, April 5; the Ed Mercure Memorial Poker Run on Saturday, May 2; and the PARC Charity Golf Classic on Saturday, May 16. At the Spring Dance, PARC presents a variety of recognitions to outstanding volunteers and the Shining Star of the Year award to a member.
The dance will take place from 6 to 10 p.m. at Nuchie’s Restaurant, 164 Central St., Bristol. Tickets are $50 ($30 for PARC members and students.)
7 Northwest Drive, and will include numerous stops throughout central Connecticut. Tickets are $25 for riders, $10 for passengers. Non-riders can have lunch for $10 at the VFW.
The Short Stack for a Tall Cause Pancake Breakfast will be held from 8 to 10 a.m. at Applebee’s, 270 New Britain Ave. Tickets are $7.
The Charity Golf Classic will be held at Southington Country Club, 150 Savage St. The event includes 18 holes of golf (with a cart), lunch and dinner, and snacks and beverages. The fee is $135 per golfer or $520 per foursome.
The Poker Run takes place in memory of Ed Mercure, a former Plainville resident, who died in a motorcycle accident in 2010. Mercure was a retired West Hartford police officer, an avid biker and a volunteer in the community.
For more information on PARC events, to purchase tickets or to become a sponsor, call PARC at 860747-0316 or email edonovan@parcdisabilitiesct.org.
A train that derailed in the area of Russell Avenue Sunday night was put back on the tracks Monday.
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During growth, the main stem produces side shoots which he buries to provide a root factory to bring in additional water and nourishment. The pumpkin itself is now growing on a piece of plywood surrounded by a wooden frame.
Vincent ended his talk with a PowerPoint show featuring his record-setting pumpkin from 2019 along with others he has grown.
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Vincent begins the process each year in early April using Atlantic giant pumpkin seeds (not available for general sale) planted in a fish tank and maintained at 8588 degrees Fahrenheit for about 10 days and then transplanted to the field, each within a hoop house. By summertime, pumpkin growth reaches 25-50 pounds daily, responding to about six different organic fertilizers and extensive watering (materially affecting Vincent’s water bills). Additional daily work includes using a mister for disease control and careful wedging of the main stem to keep it away from the pumpkin body. Maximum weight occurs by September.
After displaying these pumpkins at other venues, they are cut up for disposal after the seeds are harvested.
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Gary Vincent, a retired BrisAt harvest tol police officer living in time, each Plainville, thinks big. Adpumpkin is dressing 59 Y’s Men of Meriexamined for den on Feb. 18, he described soft spots and his passion for growing rot (requiring enormous pumpkins, many disposal) and with weights at or near a three-ton world records. hoist lifts the Vincent healthy ones The world’s first pumpkin to onto a trailer top 1,000 pounds was grown for transportation to the in 1994, surpassed a few Topsfield Fair in Masyears later by several 2,000sachusetts for an official inpounders. It all begins with spection and weighing. This the land. To grow these bepast year, Vincent’s heaviest hemoths, you will need hard pumpkin weighed 2,169 work, a 20x20 foot area for pounds, good for ninth each planted pumpkin with largest in the world. good sunshine and healthy soil with a pH less than 7 (acidic) and good drainage, and it doesn’t hurt to be “nuts” (a personality trait that Vincent readily admits to). And no summer vacations for Vincent; daily care lasting about five hours is a requirement to tend to the 6-9 pumpkins he grows each year.
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4th vehicle hits Plantsville bar By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
SOUTHINGTON — The owner of a Plantsville building said she plans to install concrete posts for protection after yet another car sailed through the Route 10-West Main Street intersection and into the building’s east wall early Saturday morning.
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Mitchell had a blood alcohol content of .14, according to police, nearly double the legal limit. Since late 2017, four cars have damaged the Hop Haus building. Three have struck the building, including the most recent crash on Saturday, while a fourth hit a parked Jeep near the building and pushed it into the brick wall.
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Each time, drivers went straight through the intersection into the building rather than following the road. Moran said there are frequently less serious accidents at the intersection as well.
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“It’s such a dangerous intersection,” she said.
She’s asked the state Department of Transportation, which owns Route 10, to put up guardrails at the intersection. Kevin Nursick, spokesman for the state DOT, said guardrails aren’t designed to stop a car at that angle and would introduce a danger for motorists. There are few design improvements that can keep a drunk, drugged, asleep or distracted motorist from crashing. Two of the other accidents involved drivers who were drunk or asleep at the wheel.
“Clearly you’ve got a driver behavior problem,” Nursick said. “There’re only so many tools we have to try to reduce the harm potential of these people.”
more signs. The town has limited jurisdiction over the state road.
Only a concrete barrier would stop cars from hitting the building, according to Nursick, and such a wall would also pose a hazard to drivers. Tom Lombardi, Town Council vice chairman, said he’d be investigating what the town can do to stop such accidents such as posting
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“I see no other alternative at this point except to put up cement bollard posts to protect the building. Unlike a brick wall that gives upon impact, cement posts will not,” Moran said. “Which will probably and most tragically result in the next person going through that lot not surviving.”
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“We need to look into our options,” Lombardi said. “This is the fourth time now.”
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contain the virus will only slow it down, adding “it’s no good pretending it’s not going to come” and there is now a window of opportunity to prepare for possible transmission in the state.
HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont on Wednesday, Feb. 26 tried to assure residents that the state is ready with a coordinated response to deal with anticipated cases of the COVID-19 virus, while acknowledging the situation is changing fast.
“Like the old saying, better to prepare for the worst and hope for the best,” Cartter said. “And right now, it’s time to prepare.”
While there have been no infections identified so far in Connecticut, State Epidemiologist Dr. Matthew Cartter said efforts by the U.S. to
Asked about the potential number of cases Connecticut could expect, Cartter said a “reasonable planning
target at the present time” would be a flu season with no vaccine or anti-virus. Each year, roughly 500 people die in Connecticut from the flu. Lamont held a media briefing at the state’s Emergency Operations Center in Hartford with Cartter, the state’s hospital association CEO, doctors and other officials on Wednesday evening, Feb. 26, shortly before President Trump made an announcement about the federal re-
UConn students' arrest over slur prompts review of ridicule law By Dave Collins Associated Press
to First Amendment rights. Police said the students, Jarred Karal and Ryan Mucaj, uttered the racial slur several times while walking through the parking lot of a campus apartment complex and were recorded by a black student. They said that they were playing a game that involved saying offensive words and that it was not directed at anyone in particular.
HARTFORD — Free speech concerns that were raised following the arrests of two University of Connecticut students accused of saying a racial slur have led state legislators to consider repealing a century-old law that bans ridicule based on race, religion or nationality. The episode on campus involving two white students in October was recorded on video and sparked protests against racism. Many people applauded their arrests, but civil liberties groups condemned them as an affront
They were charged under a 1917 law that makes it a misdemeanor for anyone who “ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account
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of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons.” A bill before the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee would repeal the law, which has been criticized by law professors around the country and other groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, which said the students’ conduct was offensive but not criminal. Last month, a public hearing was held on the bill — whose full title is “An Act Repealing the Prohibition Against Ridicule of Another Person on Account of Creed, Religion, Color, Denomination, Nationality or Race.” See Slur, A13
sponse to the virus. Lamont, a Democrat, said state Public Health Commissioner Renee D. Coleman-Mitchell was in Washington, D.C., meeting with other state health directors and federal officials about the situation and her office is taking the lead on Connecticut’s response. He said his administration was working with the state’s congressional delegation on securing needed federal funds. Based on past grant allotments, Connecticut officials expect to receive about 1% of what the federal government ultimately dedicates to the virus.
Last Wednesday, Michael Spera, the Old Saybrook Police Chief and president of the Connecticut Emergency Management Association, raised concerns in a letter to Lamont about a lack of protective equipment for emergency responders.
Lawyer: Win over transgender runner shouldn't affect suit HARTFORD (AP) — Lawyers for three Connecticut high school runners suing to block the participation of transgender athletes in girls sports say recent victories on the track by one of their clients should have no bearing on the lawsuit. Chelsea Mitchell, of Canton High School, beat transgender runner Terry Miller, of Bloomfield High School, in the 55-meter dash last month in both the Connecticut State Class S indoor track meet and the State Open.
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Mitchell and two other Connecticut high school runners filed a lawsuit in February seeking to block a state policy that allows high school athletes to compete based on the gender they identify with, arguing transgender girls have an unfair physical advantage. In seeking to become defendants in the lawsuit, lawyers for Miller and Andraya Yeawood, another transgener athlete, point to Mitchell’s Class S victory as evidence that the plaintiffs’ argument is faulty. But in a court filing Wednesday, Feb. 26, Mitchell’s lawyers argue that her wins over Miller do nothing to undermine the underlying argument that transgender athletes have unfair advantages. See Transgender, A13
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“I know the title sort of sounds like, whoa, what are they doing,” said state Sen. John Kissel, an Enfield Republican and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. “But ... the issue as to whether someone can really face criminal charges for something that has some real questionable constitutionality, I think, is at least worth discussing at this point in time.” According to state court records, the ridicule charge, which carries up to 30 days in jail, has been filed 40 times since 2012, resulting in 10 convictions. Only one of the convictions included jail time.
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The state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities has asked the Judiciary Committee to reject the repeal bill, in written testimony for the hearing. “At a time when hate and bias incidents are on the rise, it is critical that the state not remove these types of prohibitions that aim to deter or punish this unacceptable behavior,” the commission said. The Judiciary Committee received written testimony from three other people, all in favor of repeal. During the hearing, when testimony on several other bills was heard, only one person talked about the repeal bill and did not take a position either for or against, Kissel said.
Critics say the law appears to be among only a few such state laws in the country.
Karal, of Plainville, has been granted a probation pro-
“It is so clearly unconstitutional under the First Amendment that it’s hard to believe that it’s still on the books,” said William Dunlap, a professor at the Quinnipiac University School of Law in North Haven, Connecticut. “It punishes speech based on the content of the speech, and that it is one of the key concepts of the First Amendment — that the government cannot punish speech based on its content.”
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“What Plaintiffs alleged — and what is true — is that due to physiological differences, female athletes cannot beat ‘comparably talented and trained’ males,” Mitchell’s attorneys wrote.
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