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Plainville resident Axel Sundberg, 10, gets some help getting into a hot air balloon basket for a ride during the first night of the 2019 Plainville Fire Company Hot Air Balloon Festival at Norton Park. Bailey Wright, Record-Journal
Balloon festival cancelled The Plainville Fire Company cancelled its annual hot air balloon festival Monday, citing concerns and uncertainties due to the coronavirus. “It's very, very difficult for us to make this decision but … we’re a public safety organization so we’re kind of compelled to do the right thing,” festival coordinator Jim Lenois Jr. said. The 36-year-old festival has never been cancelled in its entirety before. It usually runs for a full weekend in August.
Lenois said the fire company felt it would be dangerous for the usual 30,000plus people to gather while the coronavirus is likely to still be prevalent. They also didn’t want to ask local businesses and people for donations when so many are struggling. "In our heart of hearts, (we know) you can’t go ask people to help you when they’re struggling themselves,” he said. The fire company usually brings in about $20,000 through its food booth at the festival. Those funds go to
help run the department, but are also donated back to the community.
Many decided to temporarily close, others have been embracing the change and some tried take-out only at first, only to close weeks later for monetary or safety reasons.
But co-owners Cheryl Moran and Barry DePaolo are still taking things day by day. Every morning they touch base See Restaurants, A12
The company donates about $7,000 in scholarships every year and helps fund sports leagues in town. Not collecting those funds this year will definitely be a hit, Lenois said, but “not devastating” thanks to rainy day funds. The fire company still plans to hold the festival in 2021. “Next year it’ll be even better,” Lenois said. bwright@record-journal.com 203-317-2316 Twitter: @baileyfaywright
Anthony Jack's co-owner Barry DePaolo, left, brings a lunch order to Stephen D'Amato, of Southington, in front of the Center Street business in Southington, Wednesday, April 15. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
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For restaurant owners, the last month hasn’t been easy. After the governor issued a COVID-19 related mandate that closed all eateries to dine-in customers, business owners had to decide if moving to a take-out only model was worth it.
The owners of Anthony Jacks Wood Fired Grill and Tavern 42, both in Southington, made an immediate decision to temporarily close Tavern 42 when the mandate came out, consolidating efforts at Anthony Jacks only, which was already conducive to a take-out model, as about 10 percent of its business before the virus was takeout.
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Cardona: School closure decision coming soon By Matthew Zabierek Record-Journal staff
MERIDEN — State Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona said Tuesday, April 14 that he expects to announce whether schools will remain closed beyond May 20 in the next “two or three weeks,” adding that he envisions schools will open slowly and gradually whenever the COVID-19 pandemic subsides. “It’s probably going to be phased in, it’s probably not going to be one moment we’re not there, the next day we’re business as usual,” Cardona told the RecordJournal in a remote interview broadcast live on Facebook. “It’s going to be a gradual phase-in process, but a lot of those decisions are going to be made based on what we have available to us in terms of knowing whether or not people are carrying (the
virus), the rate of transmission,” said Cardona, a city native who worked his way through the ranks in the Meriden school system, from an elementary school teacher to assistant superintendent, before being appointed education commissioner last year. In announcing the decision to close schools through May 20, Cardona said he and Gov. Ned Lamont reserved the right to close schools further if needed, and Lamont has publicly said it’s likely schools won’t reopen until the fall. While other states, like Pennsylvania and Vermont, have already moved to close schools through the 2019-20 school year, Cardona said not doing so preserves flexibility. “It’s much more difficult, as you might imagine, to engage in any type of schoolrelated activity if the cancel-
lation was extended into the summer already. We did communicate that night that there’s a likelihood that classes will be canceled further, but we’re going to make that decision when the time is right,” Cardona said, adding additional closures will be announced well before May 20. The decision to reopen will be made in consultation with state and federal health guidance, Cardona said. “Make no mistake — this is a public health decision,” he said. “We’re not going to send kids to school if there’s a risk that there’s going to be high transmission because not only do we have to worry about the students but we have to worry about the families that they go home to, we have to worry about our staff members that might have weakened immune systems.” When schools are ready to reopen, Cardona anticipates
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“As a father, I have to make that decision too when I send my kids off to school or I drop them off — I have to know that they’re safe,” said Cardona, whose two children attend Meriden schools.
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“I know that’s an area that we’re all going to accept differently,” he said. “I would imagine that families that have experienced loss or different traumas are going to be a little more reticent to send their children back …
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about the latest news on COVID-19 and consider what’s best for the safety of their employees and customers. “We’ve struggled with it since day one … It’s a really fine line and it changes from hour to hour,” Moran said. “The biggest thing is the community has been so grateful.” They’ve chosen to stay open as a chance to continue serving the community and other businesses. Moran said customers have been so thankful, it motivates her to keep going. Plus, staying open means they can continue paying some employees and giving vendors, including farmers, continued business. “I feel in a way we’re helping the whole chain,” Moran said. The partners had to lay off about 100 employees between the two restaurants,
With the couple dozen employees needed just to keep up with demand, Adams said the restaurant ran the risk of spreading the virus within the team. Gov. Ned Lamont reduced the gathering limit recommendation to five people on March 26, which applies to restaurant staff and customers as well. Leah Masella, co-owner of The Eatery, in Wallingford, brings a lunch order to customers waiting in their vehicle in front of the business, Tuesday, April 14. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
which Moran said was one of the hardest days of her life. About 20 employees stayed on to help with takeout. They added family style
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learning plan. Here’s a sample of more questions and answers, some of which are trimmed for space. How has distance learning affected the state’s socioeconomic achievement gap that you’ve sought to address as commissioner? “Sadly, (distance learning) has exacerbated the gaps … I talked to students in a very low resource community who waited two to three weeks to hear from anyone about how to engage in learning. I spoke to students in a community that (has more resources), and they did not miss a beat, so it exacerbated gaps. I don’t have to tell you if you saw the news about health disparities, black and brown people are more likely to get the coronavirus, and sadly, black people are more likely to die from it. So the impact of the coronavirus will be felt for
generations … I think we have to understand that when things get back to normal, we have to double down on our efforts to address inequities, and we’re doing that now. Two or three weeks ago, we were engaged in conversations with (philanthropic donors), and I’m really happy to share that a purchase was made of 60,000 laptops for students in communities that are less resourced.” How will this experience change education going forward, what lessons can you learn? “All education is going to be different moving forward. We can’t think for a minute that this impact that we’ve had in the last month and a half or two months won’t change how we do schooling moving forward. We learned quickly how (closing schools down) creates opportunities for some and lack of opportunities for others. We have to learn from this, and we have to get better because of this, and I’m confident that,
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as an education community, we’re going to be stronger after this, and we’re going to take the lessons that we learn, unfortunately, the hard way, and we’re going to make sure the educational experience in Connecticut is better than ever after we recover.” What challenges does distance learning pose to students with disabilities and how can the state address those? “It poses significant challenges. I’ve been thinking about our students with significant special needs, who, even if they had a laptop, it doesn’t really meet their needs. That’s extremely challenging, and we have struggled to try to provide a quick solution to that. A month ago, we might have said, ‘Well, maybe we could do one-on-one sessions.’ Now we’re trying to stay home and stay safe to prevent the spread, so that’s not a viable option. In some cases, some districts are able to do a Zoom conference and
provide speech therapy or different types of therapies online, but for some of our neediest learners, that doesn’t work. So we have to continue to be creative. We know that the road to recovery will require that we work to meet the needs of those learners who had gaps in their learning, and those gaps in their learning are much more significant because they haven’t had the benefit of some distance learning … Additionally, we have to do work for our English learners. Many of our students are receiving content in English, and they may not even speak English yet, so there’s a lot of work that we’re doing.” What message do you have for teachers and parents trying to help their children process changes and stress brought on by the pandemic? “It’s very difficult to wrap your head around it. Not only are we providing guidance for our students, but we’re
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also dealing with it ourselves. We’re human too, and we’re worried about loss, we’re worried about protecting the people we love. So it’s OK to not have answers. It’s OK to not be able to meet everyone else’s needs. Take care of yourself. There’s that whole analogy when you’re on an airplane, you put on your oxygen mask first before you help someone else. Similarly, for educators and parents, it’s OK, take care of yourselves. You’re going to be better for your children.” “For teachers, kids just need a connection right now. They need to know that we’re going to get past this together, that you’re there for them. The learning, the math, the reading — that’s important. But let’s not overlook the most important piece, which is that human connection that I think we’re all longing for in this time of crisis.” mzabierek@record-journal.com 203-317-2279 Twitter: @MatthewZabierek
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doors of the restaurant and offer a walk-up cart, curbside pickup, or delivery instead. “We just noticed that people were uncomfortable when they came inside and not wanting to touch the door handles and we just realized that we could do more and keep them even safer,” coowner Leah Masella. Masella owns the eatery with her husband Jon Masella. To make customers feel a little more welcome, they had Kate McNamee, owner
of Splat Art Studio down the road, paint a mural on the windows telling people where to order and painted the ordering cart to be fun and colorful. The Eatery has been kept pretty busy day to day, especially with catering orders that go to hospitals, homeless shelters, and other first responders. “Now we’re feeling like we’re able to be useful in some way and to be able to feed people,” Masella said. She said the public support has been awesome, from people thanking them for being open to encourage-
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Milot said the transition from mostly dine-in service to take-out only hasn’t been too bad. Hours have changed, and so have some menu items, but the restaurant already had the systems and materials in place from catering. The biggest hit will be in the percentage of sales, but they feel any money going towards bills is a good thing.
some family “dinner for four” options, which Milot said have been about 90 percent of business now. Some of the family meals include chicken parmesan over penne pasta, Yankee pot roast, mac and cheese, Tequila chicken and more. Milot said the community support they’ve received is greatly appreciated. “It helps tremendously at this time because everything is uncertain, everybody's in the same boat and we’re all just trying to make ends meet,” she said. Adams pointed out that his restaurant is somewhat unique in its position because while J. Timothy’s will likely return strong, he guesses a tenth of restaurants won’t be able to reopen, and of the fraction that can, some won’t make it long in a new reality. He expects even after restaurants can safely reopen, things will look different than before COVID-19. Dining out habits will likely be changed for many. Masella said she and her husband are already thinking about how they may have to adapt to a new reality after COVID-19.
“We don’t exactly know what it's going to look like, but we’re going to be flexible for what people need,” To better serve the commu- Masella said. “I don’t think nity, the tavern brought back we’re going 100% back to the way that we were running.”
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As part of the plan, we converted our scheduled Professional Learning Community (PLC) time on March 11 to focus on school closure planning and preparation. Since the high school had conferences that evening and no scheduled PLC time, their work had to be done
through common planning time and other virtual communications. Ultimately, everyone did what they had to do in order to prepare as well as they could for Phase I of Plainville’s Distance Learning Plan. Ironically, as more information was released to district superintendents, it became clear that I would need to close schools effective March 16. At that time,
districts had two options with the Connecticut State Department of Education: 1.) to treat the days off as if they were snow days to be made up in June and on April vacation, or 2.) to apply for a state waiver allowing the district to offer distance learning opportunities through technology platforms, which would allow districts to continue teaching and learning, and those days would count toward the state required 180 school days. As superintendent of Plainville Community Schools, I decided to apply for the waiver based on two key factors: 1.) Outstanding, talented and dedicated teachers and support staff who I knew would rise to meet the challenge, and 2.) Plainville’s outstanding technology, hardware, software, technology support team, and training. Our application for the waiver was submitted on March 13 at 2 p.m. and I closed all Plainville schools from March 16 - March 27 for an initial 2-week period awaiting further updates from health officials and the governor. Our waiver was approved on March 16 and Plainville nev-
er missed a day of teaching and learning. At the time, we also didn’t add days to the end of the school year or subtract them from April vacation, as other districts had to do. Although that requirement was later removed and the waiver no longer required, I am proud of our team’s responsive ability to shift teaching from our schools to the homes of teachers and families within a matter of a few days! Admittedly, this distance learning system has been a constant work in progress and we have needed to amend our plans, adjust based on feedback, add in the half-day Wednesdays for students to allow them to catch up on work, get a little down time, and also allow teachers to continue sharing ideas, learning new technology tools and collaborate with peers. These half-day Wednesdays have proven critical for all and were well received, but we continue to seek additional ways to provide such important downtime and enrichment time for children and learning time for teachers. We will continue to assess and modify our programs as needed, and meet multiple times each week with various groups
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Plainville is an exceptional community with terrific schools, and that is due to our district team. I have talented colleagues in our district’s central office hub and school leaders that I can count on in every way. I have teachers who are going the extra mile to do all they can to support students, and I have so many other staff See LePage, A17
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have a great collective school district team, and I am proud of them! In closing, I will be the first to admit that we are not perfect and have stated this since the start, but Plainville is in much better shape than many unfortunate districts who are still trying to get technological devices to students, let alone deploy the devices and training that teachers need to help students succeed. The district structures and systems, such as our Professional Learning Com-
munities, that have facilitated the development of team capacity and collaboration, teacher leadership development, and exceptional preparation of the staff members, have proven to be the foundation for success in this new distance learning environment.
am extremely proud of our students for their hard work and perseverance through all of this change. We have amazing students in Plainville, Pre-K through grade 12, and in our Adult and Continuing Education program, and we will do all that we can to take care of them, honor them and celebrate their contributions to Plainville during these challenging weeks ahead.
Plainville has a wonderful balance of outstanding resources, thanks to our Board of Education’s vision and the town’s continued support of Plainville has been recogthese needed resources. nized by the Connecticut State Department of EducaLast but certainly not least, I tion as an exemplar district
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ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS The Plainville Zoning Board of Appeals conducted Public Hearings and other actions on Monday April 13, 2020 and rendered the following decision(s): Application #20-04-02 Dale Corriveau of 71 Unionville Avenue approved a variance to Article 1 Residential Zones, Section 1.03 Dimensional Standards, Sub-section B Minimum Yard Requirements, Paragraph 3 to permit a detached structure to be positioned in the front yard for a property located at 71 Unionville Avenue. Application #20-04-03 Skytop Motors LLC 0f 152 Whiting Street approved an auto location approval for a New Automobile Dealership, Used Automobile Dealership and Automobile Repair License(s) automobile repair license as required by Section 1454 of the Connecticut General Statues for property located 152 Whiting Street with the stipulation no more than thirty-five (35) vehicles can be on the property. Application #20-04-05 Lisa Melninkaitis of 310 Cooke Street approved a variance to Article 1 Residential Zones, Section 1.03 Dimensional Standards, Sub-section B Minimum Requirements, Paragraph 3 to permit the increase the maximum midpoint height of a detached structure from twelve (12’) feet to seventeen (17’) feet for a property identified as 310 Cooke Street Application #20-04-06 Lisa Melninkaitis of 10 Robert Jackson Way approved a variance to Article 4 Basic Standards, Section 7 Fences, Sub-section 3 Fences in Front Yards to permit the installation of a eight (8’) foot fence and gate at the front property line for a property identified as 10 Robert Jackson Way Dated at Plainville, Connecticut this 13th day of April Bryan Ouellette, Secretary Plainville Zoning Board of Appeals R229706
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WANTED Individual firearms, collections & estates including military & related items.Federally licensed firearms dealer. Gunsmith, appraisals, Richard Pleines, (860) 663-2214.
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