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Volume 20, Number 36
Thursday, September 9, 2021
2 local pilots among victims of crash FARMINGTON (AP) — Four people who died in a small jet crash in Connecticut were identified Friday as a Boston couple who are both doctors and two local pilots. No, that’s not a pond. Plainville resident Bill Dillane took this photo of Norton Park after Tropical Storm Ida dumped more than half a foot of rain on much of the state. Photo by Bill Dillane
Soggy start to September The state was deluged with heavy rains and flooding Sept. 1 and 2, the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which dumped more than half a foot of rain on much of
Connecticut and wreaked havoc across the Northeast. Seymour got the highest amount of rainfall in the
state, 8.72 inches, with Ida's final punch hitting a stationary weather front and lingering over southern New England for about a day, said Gary Lessor,
meteorologist with the Weather Center at Western Connecticut State University. See Storm, A6
SEPT. 11, 2001
Let us remember. Let us be one. (This editorial ran in the Record-Journal one year after the 9/11 attack. Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021 marks the 20-year anniversary of the assault on our nation.) Moments of great personal and national tragedy are as etched in our hearts and minds as the presidential likenesses on Mount Rushmore. September 11, 2001 is past, but its legacy today continues to be acutely felt both domestically and internationally.
This day, one year ago, darkened the tone of political rhetoric and set the stage for the unfolding of a different way of living – a redefining of national security and a reassessment of how the rest of the world looks both to and at us. As the foundations of the World Trade Center were assaulted from the impact above, something fundamental about what it means to be an American shook and resonated within the pillars of our democratic
fortress. Our homeland had been assaulted in a way few would have thought possible. This day, one year ago, changed the focus of a presidential administration. The pressing national agenda before this moment suddenly yielded to the immediate mandate of dealing with an insidious enemy that caught us by surprise. Suddenly, the relative sense of immunity from atSee 9/11, A4
Police in Farmington said Courtney Haviland, 33, her husband, William Shrauner, 32, were passengers on the jet that crashed into a manufacturing company building Thursday morning, Sept. 2 shortly after takeoff from Robertson Airport in Plainville. The pilots were William O’Leary, 55, of Bristol, and Mark Morrow, 57, of Danbury, Farmington police Lt. Tim McKenzie said. “The Farmington Police Department extends their deepest condolences to the friends and family of the four passengers who died in this tragic crash,” McKenzie said in a statement. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board were at the scene of the fiery crash Friday. The cause remains under investigation. The Cessna Citation 560X took off just before 10 a.m. on a flight headed to Dare County Regional Airport in Manteo, North Carolina, the See Crash, A8