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Clinic a local option for vaccine By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
Area residents looking to get a coronavirus vaccine now have an option closer to home. Hartford HealthCare oversees vaccine distribution in Southington and had been directing people to the Hospital of Central Connecticut in
recent weeks. Now hospital leaders say vaccines will be available at the medical building at 462 Queen St. “As we get more vaccines, we’ll continue to expand sites and capacity,” said James Cardon, Hartford Healthcare chief clinical integration officer. “We’ve got months of work ahead of us for sure.”
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With vaccines provided to most healthcare workers, Cardon said the priority has been residents age 75 and older. Seniors are in the current group eligible for vaccination.
The Queen Street location is now scheduling appointments on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The scheduling is limited based on the anticipated number of vaccines available for the area.
Hartford HealthCare receives its allotment of vaccines each week from the state. That determines how many vaccination appointments the
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By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
These winter days, the kid who grew up in the shadow of Mount Southington arises in alpine meccas.
This week: Innsbruck, Austria. For all the fun he’s having,
The Board of Education approved a $103 million budget recommendation, Jan. 28, describing it as a bare-bones spending plan that meets important and increasing needs such as mental health.
Southington native Austin Florian, competing for the United States, waves as he arrives at the finish area during the skeleton mixed team competition at the 2020 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships in Altenberg, Germany. Florian has been the top American on this year’s World Cup tour and has aspirations of making the U.S. team that will compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.
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The board unanimously voted for a spending proposal that increases the school budget by 3.3 percent. The current year’s budget is about $100 million. Superintendent of Schools Tim Connellan presented the budget to the board two weeks ago. Under the plan, general education would increase more than 2 percent
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said the main population now receiving vaccines are those 75 and older.
For some patients with the possibility of allergic reactions to a vaccine, Sica said doctors advise getting the vaccine at a hospital. That would make Bradley a convenient location for Southington residents in that situation.
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Cardon said the vaccination locations aren’t fully determined and could change or increase with need.
He said all sites are equipped to deal with the uncommon occurrence of allergic reaction following a vaccination. Those who have gotten the vaccination are kept at the site for 15 minto monitor for such a Bradley Hospital as a utes reaction. Very few residents vaccine location? would need to a get a vacBonnie Sica, a founder of the cine in a hospital. Community Committee to “Sometimes hospitals are Save Bradley, has asked not the most convenient Hartford HealthCare to hold place to get to,” Cardon said. vaccination clinics at the “We’ve actually had much Meriden Avenue hospital. more volume going through Bradley is part of the Hospi- our ambulatory (sites).” tal of Central Connecticut, The first group to receive owned by Hartford Healthvaccines were health care Care. Sica and others want workers, making hospitals the hospital group to keep the most convenient place to Bradley open and maintain administer them. Cardon services there.
The two vaccines differ in the amount of time a second dose of the vaccine should be administered. Cardon said that’s tracked on a patient’s record.
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In Southington, vaccination is handled by Hartford HealthCare. In other towns, such as Wallingford, the local health department has worked with health care organizations to run vaccination clinics. To schedule a vaccination in Southington, residents can call 211 or visit the Hartford HealthCare website. The Plainville-Southington Regional Health Department doesn’t schedule or administer vaccines. Towns can choose their method of vaccinating residents, according to Maura Fitzgerald, spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Health. “Some are conducting clinics on their own. Some are partnering with neighboring local health departments or districts to conduct their clinics, and the others are contracting with third-party vaccine providers,” Fitzgerald said.
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In general education, Connellan proposed additional hours for nurses to allow two fulltime positions in each middle school. He also wants to bring back the position of a substitute nurse, which was cut two years ago. He said it’s been very difficult finding substitute nurses. Board members discussed the budget details during workshops over the past two weeks. They all supported the budget and hoped the Town Council, which has final authority over the amount of money spent on education, would do the same. The town’s Board of Finance also makes a recommendation on education spending to the council. “The increase involves things we need. It’s got nurses on there, it’s got school psychologists,” said Bob Brown, a board member. “It’s absolutely essential the new positions be created.” Zaya Oshana, a board member, said he hoped the finance board and council would look into the details of the budget and see for themselves that “there is no fluff.” “This is a no-frills, bare-bones budget. I just want people to see that,” he said. New positions were “essential” to getting through the pandemic and its aftermath. Terri Carmody, education board chairwoman, said the school’s administrators did an excellent job of creating a budget the board could support. “It’s really wonderful that we can unanimously approve what is a fair, equitable budget that’s needed to keep the schools as wonderful as they are,” she said.
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50 years ago I worked on avalanche search and rescue in Cottonwood Canyon and was skiing with the ski patrol director at Park City when he got the call from the Utah Transportation Department to send help. The terrain park news is about bigger bumps and jumps at ski areas around the East. The half pipe at Mount Southington now has walls almost 10 feet tall,
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Town leaders are encouraged by the results of a youth substance abuse survey conducted early last year but said teens are facing challenges during the pandemic. Every two years, the Southington TownWide Effort to Promote Success (STEPS) coalition conducts a survey on risky behaviors and substance use among local youth. It was conducted by the Search Institute in February 2020 and included students in seventh, eighth and ninth grades. STEPS began collecting data on teen drinking, sexual activity, shoplifting and more in 2009. Since then, rates have dropped, in some cases by as much as half, according to the surveys. “It looks like overall, Southington youth are making better choices since our prevention efforts have been taking place,” said Megan Albanese, the town’s youth prevention coordinator. “Now we have a nice chunk of data that we are really able to compare to see where we are moving the needle in our prevention efforts.”
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Christmas Display in Plainville, collected 1,290 pounds of food for the Plainville Food Pantry.
we’ve collected over the past years I would have to say is between 4,000 to 5,000 pounds,” Woodruff said.
Brunelle has been accepting food donations at his holiday light display for about five years.
Krysta Tsangarides, food pantry worker, said that donations from Strawberry Lane came in throughout the holiday season.
“I think last year we were a little under 1,000 (pounds) and in the past, it was definitely lower,” Brunelle said. “So this year has definitely been one of the higher years.”
“They came in with boxes of canned vegetables, canned fruit, snacks,” Tsangarides said. “... Mac and cheese, cereal, everything.”
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Susie Woerz, executive director of the Plainville Food Pantry, said donations from Brunelle’s light display were Woodruff was appreciative of impactful. all of the donations. “There’s a lot of food being “… a lot of people were given out ...” Woerz said. struggling this past year with “The food is needed. There COVID-19 … I think with our are a lot of people that are house creating a place where still unemployed and are utipeople can come and actuallizing our facility.” ly remember what holidays are all about made them “With COVID, people are want to donate more and having troubles,” Brunelle help the community,” she said. “I hope the donations said. will help out people who are in need of the food.” Joshua Brunelle, of Joshua’s
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Connecticut plans to shut two prisons as population declines By Pat Eaton-Robb Associated Press
The acting commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Correction told lawmakers that he plans to close two state prisons by the end of the fiscal year as the number of people behind bars continues to decline. Angel Quiros made the comments Thursday, Jan. 28 at a legislative hearing on his permanent appointment to the job. A former correction officer who rose through the ranks, the Hartford native has served as acting commissioner since Rollin Cook resigned last June. As of Jan. 28, there were 9,072 inmates in the 14 state-run prisons and jails. That is lowest level in more than three decades, a drop of about 5,000 inmates since the Enfield Correctional Institution became the last prison to close in 2018, and down about 3,300 inmates since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Quiros said. In comparison, the state had 19,894 inmates in the system on Feb. 1,
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Officials say the decrease is due to several factors, including a drop in crime during the pandemic and the state’s efforts to find alternatives to incarceration, especially in recent months for eligible inmates at risk of contracting COVID19.
“Front-line corrections staff are concerned that closing state prisons will prove to be penny-wise and poundfoolish,” they said. “Shoe-horning inmates into other facilities will undermine safety and security in the prisons, and create more difficult conditions for offenders and staff.”
Quiros said he anticipates announcing by mid-February which prisons will be shuttered. The only facilities that are not being considered for closure are the three county jails — Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport — and the York Correctional Institution in Niantic, the state’s only prison for women, he said. “I’m listening to just about everybody, from our unions to our frontline staff, from the elected officials, advocacy groups (to determine) which facilities should shut down,” Quiros said. Leaders of the three unions representing correctional officers issued a joint statement last Thursday oppos-
Quiros said there may be other closures in the future. But he said he needs some flexibility in case there is an uptick in crime or a need to keep spacing out inmates if the pandemic drags on. Quiros did not say whether there would be any job cuts to accompany the prison closures but acknowledged it will affect employees through transfers. “Some may end up traveling further to their work site, some may end up on a different shift because of the facility they are going to, based on seniority,” he said. The department has more than 6,000 employees. He said more than 1,000 workers, including more than 500 correction officers, will be eligible to retire in July. But he also expects about 120 to 150 new hires from a class of officers now being trained.
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A new dining option is coming to Plantsville as The Art of Yum plans to open in town this month. The Art of Yum serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and will open its Plantsville location at 1091 South Main St., the former site of Steve’s Restaurant. Michone Arrington, founder and manager of The Art of Yum, was formerly a chef at ESPN. Arrington opened the Waterbury location on Grand Street along with partners and fellow chefs James Thompson and Donte Jones. Jones said the Waterbury location, which opened in
Michone Arrington, left, and Donte Jones, are the owners of The Art of Yum, a new restaurant under renovation in the former Steve’s Restaurant at 1091 S. Main St. in the Plantsville neighborhood of Southington. Photos by Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
March 2018, has been doing well despite the challenges the pandemic presents.
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Hop Haus to open Plainville location By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
ing its own brewing equipment last year.
Touting almost 30 beers on tap and American fare sourced from local farms, the Plantsville-based Hop Häus is planning to open a second location in downtown Plainville this spring.
To celebrate the Plainville location’s grand opening, Miller is planning a five course dinner in the banquet hall paired with beers from the Twelve Percent Brewing Project, which will be helping him expand his restaurants’ tap list.
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Jones said. “We’ve been able to capitalize on takeout and people still come in to eat. We are at a 50 percent capacity.”
“We are doing well and we are venturing out into Plantsville and it’s closer to where we worked at ESPN,” Jones said. “We will have more parking than our Waterbury location and we will be able to bring more revenue in and create more jobs. Times are hard for people. We want to spread the love with our amazing food.” The restaurant has a vegan menu and tries to source as much as possible from local
Lunch features pastas, salads, soups and sandwiches on a hard roll, tacos, burgers, wraps and paninis. The dinner menu includes eight entrees, a variety of salads and mac and cheeses, tacos, burgers and rice bowls. “We specialize in modern American food. A lot of our dishes are Latin and Asian inspired. We also make a healthy meal and provide family dining,” Jones said.
“I just felt it was important to have good quality food while drinking beer,” Miller said. Preparing the new location for opening has been helped along by extensive renovations the building underwent before opening as Trenta Tavern in late 2019, according to Plainville Eco-
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“For folks in Southington, we are a modernized breakfast joint with fun new items. The family can come enjoy themselves. But we also have lunch and dinner. Our menu is diverse and we will be able to satisfy everyone.” The restaurant delivers with UberEats and GrubHub. The menu also has a Chef Daily Special. The restaurant also offers catering and a food truck for a mobile dining experience. The previous owners of the property were Steve and Mona Menard. They owned Steve’s Restaurant since 1978, but the pandemic forced it to close. “We did well in the summer with the outdoor dining, but once the cold weather set in and cut back our seating capacity, that changed things,” Steve Menard said. “At this stage in our lives, rather than keep fighting this battle, we’ll move on.”
“It brings some more vibrancy, it gives another reason for people to come to the downtown area,” he said. Having already applied for a liquor license and more permits in the works with the town, Hauburger believes Miller is in shape to meet his goal of opening in March, barring any pandemic disruptions.
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Jones said the location has done well with takeout after foot traffic has diminished since the pandemic. The new restaurant is scheduled to open in the middle of February.
producers. One of the restaurant’s breakfast specialties is a panko-encrusted omelet rolled up with toppings inside and has been a hit at the Grand Street location in Waterbury. Other breakfast specialties include: Shrimp and Grits, Benedict and TAOY and BKT Tacos. The menu also includes traditional breakfast foods like omelets, pancakes, French toast and waffles to name a few. Also with several sides.
Hop Häus opened in Southington around seven years ago as a craft beer bar specializing in beers from local breweries and has transitioned into a full restaurant over the past three years.
Hop Häus’ strong reputation paired with the central location in town will provide exposure for the surrounding businesses, Hauburger said.
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The new restaurant will be located at 24 Whiting St., formerly the home of Trenta Tavern, and will feature an outdoor patio, banquet hall Michael Miller, owner of Hop Haus, stands behind the bar and indoor seating for beof the business in Plantsville. Hop Haus is planning to open tween 250 and 300 cusa second location, in Plainville. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal tomers, according to owner Michael Miller. Hop Häus’ success to its they frequent. slate of Connecticut-brewed Hiring between 14 and 18 The new location will keep beers and the careful attennew employees is the main tion paid to keeping its cus- the same menu, hours and hurdle he still has to clear, tomers safe from exposure to specials for lunch and happy but Miller hopes to hold a hour that the Southington the virus. grand opening for the seclocation offers, and will also ond location in mid to late “Hop Häus has grown pretty be opening around the same March. well over this year, being time that Miller enters a known for its great food and partnership with the Twelve Expanding at a time when we take safety seriously as Percent Brewing Project. The many restaurants are still far as corona,” he said, North Haven based brewery suffering the effects of the adding some customers began as an import and discoronavirus have told him they feel safer tribution business over a pandemic, Miller credits there than any of restaurants decade ago before purchas-
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Need a hand with your hands? Racheal Ceste, owner of Sweet Cioccolata, shows some of the many Valentine's Day chocolates at the 32 North Colony Road business in Wallingford on Jan. 28. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
Local candy and bake shops gear up for Valentine’s Day 14 — the shop is featuring chocolate covered strawberries, other chocolate covered treats and decorative cookies.
A local chocolate shop and area bake shops are preparing for Valentine’s Day with pink, red and white “The customers that usually purchase from us are still treats. purchasing,” Ceste said. Sweet Cioccolata relocated “We’ve also been getting in May 2020 from 28 N. new customers from the new Colony Road to a larger move and through social storefront nearby at 32 N. media.” Colony Road. Orders can be placed now at “We doubled in size,” owner 203-294-1280. Rachael Ceste said. “We have bigger retail and a big- Marissa Klimovich, owner of The Chocolate Chip Bakery, ger production room. We’re also has been busy filling orable to produce faster and ders ahead of Feb. 14. Her more.” For Valentine’s Day — Feb.
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spot. Everyone behind me is doing just as well. I need to be improving with them and keep getting better, just as they’re getting better. We’re all improving as a team pretty well and we’re making some good strides and, hopefully, we’ll have a good showing next year.”
consider it an extended business trip for Austin Florian. The 26-year-old Southington native is competing for the United States in skeleton on the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Feder- Florian’s assessment of ation’s World Cup tour. where he stands seems to be a fair reflection of a guy who In fact, he’s leading the way. holds an engineering degree Since the U.S rejoined the from Clarkson University Cup earlier this month, Floand always liked bombing rian has been the top Ameridown mountains, be it upon can finisher each time out. skis or sled. He’s wellThat has the 2012 Southing- grounded, yet holds Olympic-sized dreams ton High School grad on in a sport in which athcourse to wake up a year letes whistle down tracks 70from now in Beijing at the 80 miles an hour, face down, 2022 Winter Olympics. less than eight inches off the “Yeah, I’m doing pretty well ice on a piece of equipment this year. We’re dialing ourless than four feet long, selves in for next season steering with the slightest to make sure we’re at our movements of shoulders, best going into the knees and toes. Olympics,” Florian said last “It’s kind of wild,” Florian week, Tuesday afternoon, said. “It’s something I always Innsbruck time. wanted when I was little. “I’m in a good spot right “I never thought I’d be doing now. I’ve still got a lot of this, quite obviously,” work to do to stay in that
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he added with a chuckle. “I always thought this sport was cool when I was little, but I never thought I’d be actually doing it. But, yeah, it’s an amazing thing to think that I possibly could go. But, still, the realist in my head is like, ‘You’ve still a lot of work to do and you’ve still got to earn it.’” Florian grew up skiing competitively with his sister Erika at Wildcat Mountain in New Hampshire. Their dad, Sean Florian, had also been a ski racer and, along with their mom Beth, established ProTek Ski Racing, a family business that makes and sells equipment for the sport.
Once that career was over, though, Florian made the switch to skeleton. “I knew I wasn’t going to make it to the Olympics in skiing. I was good enough for college skiiing, but not good enough for much past that,” he said. “I just made sure I had fun skiing in college and I had a great time there and I’m happy I went that route. “I just happened into skeleton; it wasn’t really on purpose,” Florian continued. “I just wanted to try it. It looked like fun and I ended up being kind of good at it.”
The Florian kids both went on to ski in college — Austin at Clarkson in upstate New York, Erika at Montana State.
Florian’s new sport is arguably as old as winter itself, or whenever some enterprising outdoorsman affixed runners to a flat board and hit the hills.
Austin wound up being a two-time All-American. And yet, on weekly training trips to nearby Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, the skeleton track caught his eye.
It took organized form in the 1880s in St. Moritz. English soldiers stationed there had a penchant for racing toboggans through the village streets, much to the peril of pedestrians and tourists.
With his coach’s permission, Florian gave skeleton a try. And another. In the fall of 2014, heading into his junior year at Clarkson, Florian attended a skeleton combine. That winter, he went to a skeleton school.
Town burghars took a creative approach to the problem. St. Moritz Mayor William Bulpett, with the backing of local hotel owner Caspar Badrutt, who would earn a reputation as a winter sports pioneer, constructed “Cresta Run,” the first sledding track of its kind.
Florian continued skiing for Clarkson in the meantime. He and the Golden Knights placed in the NCAA top four in 2015 and again in 2016.
And, to this day, that track in St. Moritz remains one of a kind. It is the only sled track in the world that is “natural.” It does not rest on
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Coming out of Clarkson, Florian was a few years away from finding out about St. Moritz and the track that, compared to the deafening white noise of the others, rides almost silently. In 2016, Florian was invited to the U.S. team trials and made the North American Cup, competing in that entry-level tour that winter and again in 2017-2018. He cleaned up in his second year, taking six medals and finshing second at the national championships. That led to one of the five spots on the U.S. team for the 2018-19 World Cup season. Now, in his third season on the top-level tour, Florian is setting the American pace. Here’s how he’s done against the world’s best since the U.S. rejoined the World Cup after missing the opening events in Sigulda, Latvia and Innsbruck due to COVID-19 concerns: n Winterberg
(Jan. 8): 15th place in his first outing since the 2020 World Championships last March. n St.
Moritz (Jan. 15): 10th, the third time in Florian’s World Cup career he placed in the top 10. n Königssee,
Germany (Jan. 22): 14th place at the site of world’s first refrigerated track, which freed the sport from the vagaries of weather when built in 1969. After this week’s stop in Innsbruck, Florian and his teammates will return to Koningsee for the Intercontinental Cup. That’s the circuit below the World Cup. The Americans want to get in for more sled time after their late start to the season.
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Valentine’s Day menu includes white chocolate, hot cocoa bombs, cookies and strawberries. “I’m doing Valentine’s Day sugar cookies,” Klimovich said. “A lot of people have ordered heart-shaped cookies but I can do letters and names.” Klimovich will be launching chocolate covered strawberries this week after receiving a lot of requests. Place your order with The Chocolate
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Park City, Utah, then in Lake Placid, back to where Florian started this remarkable run. “It’s my home track and it’s one of my favorites to slide in the world,” said Florian. “It does feel like home. I’ve spent a lot of time in the last 10 years up there.” Prior to heading to upstate New York, the 6-foot-1, 190pound Florian played a variety of sports in Southington. He grew up playing lacrosse, but as that season started to conflict with skiing, he shifted to golf as a high school junior, then to track as a senior. The track background helps with skeleton, given the sprint start. Once on the sled and descending, the maneuvering comes in the corners. Gravitational force builds with speed. On the fastest track Florian has ever run — Whistler Sliding Center in British Columbia — speeds touch 90 miles an hour.
Chip Bakery through Facebook. In Meriden, Belen’s Sweet Creation’s owner Belen Torres is offering heart- shaped boxes with roses, chocolate covered strawberries and chocolate candies. Torres recently also added cheesecake-filled chocolate covered strawberries to her menu. “That one is my favorites,” she said. “It’s the perfect combination.“
Graham crackers dipped in chocolate with candy sprinkles and hearts for Valentine’s Day at Sweet Cioccolata in Wallingford. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
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ty intense sensation with the speed and the forces you encounter throughout the track. It’s very unique and it’s super-cool.”
For Valentine’s Day, Alyssa’s Cakery also is introducing ice cream bombs in 36 flavors.
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And there is no place for trepidation. “For me, it’s not really a sense of fear as it is a sense of going faster,” Florian said. “I want to figure out the fastest way down the track. I don’t really have that sense where I’m trying to preserve myself. I’m trying to go fast.
“We have so many orders,” owner Alyssa Nieves said. “We have probably 50 orders right now. I’m hoping it will be our best Valentine’s Day yet.”
Similar to the hot cocoa bombs, customers receive chocolate spheres with the makings of an ice cream sundae inside. Place the bomb over ice cream and then pour the cakery’s heated homemade ganache over the bomb and it will “explode” to a sundae.
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“Sometimes, to figure out the fastest way, you’ve got to over-shoot a little bit and make mistakes. You make mistakes and end up on your back. That’s just the learning process. That’s how you go about learning how to get faster.” Skeleton became an Olympic sport in 2022, when the games played in Salt Lake City. Prior to that, the sport got an Olympic look only when the games played at St. Moritz in 1928 and 1948 and the Cresta Run took center stage. The gold medalist in ’48? Nino Bibbia, a fruit and vegetable merchant from St. Moritz.
Even if you wanted to lift your head to see, you can’t, the G force is so strong.
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Making the case for $4.5M purchase Town officials are making the case for buying development rights for Southington Country Club, a deal they believe voters will support at referendum if it’s explained. Voters have supported spending on open space acquisition in recent years, although the Southington Country Club deal is the largest in decades at $4.5 million and the first development rights purchase for a specific property that’s gone to referendum. The town hasn’t yet signed a contract with Southington Country Club, a Savage Street golf course whose owners include Raymond Kastner, Joseph Calvanese Jr. and Christopher Calvanese. Several town boards and town voters have to support the deal before it’s finalized.
What are development rights? If the sale is approved, the Kastner and Calvanese families would remain owners of the golf course but would lose the ability to build houses on the nearly 100acre property. Any future owners of the property would also be prevented from using the land for anything other than recreational purposes such as golf, according to the contract. Owners would also be prevented from subdividing the land. Golf course owners received approval for a 114-lot subdivision years ago and approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission expires in October. Unlike in cases where the town purchases land outright, Southington Country Club remains private if the town buys development
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Subdivision ready to go Town Planner Rob Philips estimated the construction of 114 houses would add more than 100 children to the school system, costing an additional $1.3 million per year. He presented the estimates, based on demographic data from Rutgers University, at a Town Council meeting Jan. 25. Since the golf course owners already have subdivision approval, those houses could be built at any time. “Tomorrow they could submit for building and zoning permits for their first lot,” Philips said. Town officials say there’s a unique opportunity to prevent that development and associated costs for education and municipal services by buying development rights. John Leary, chairman of the town’s finance board, said the contract was a “significant amount of money” but also saw the benefits of the deal. “We also prevent costs too. There will be a savings that offsets the payment,” he said.
Hawk’s Landing Country Club Owners of Hawk’s Landing Country Club, another local golf course about the same size as Southington Country Club, sold development rights to the town in 2016. The contract totaled just under $1 million and didn’t meet the threshold for a See Making the case, A20
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Course, and gained approval from the town Planning and public referendum. Zoning Commission to build 94 houses on half of the site. Town Council Republicans supported the purchase, say- Part of his approval stipulated that the remaining nine ing it was a way to preserve holes can only be used for land at a lower cost than an recreation. outright land acquisition. Two council Democrats opposed the 2016 development rights purchase, saying voters who approved open
Two appraisers determined that about 40 homes could be built at Hawk’s Landing. Due to geography and layout, more than 100 can be built at Southington Country Club.
members are only offering a financial recommendation to the town. Town Manager Mark Sciota said the council also plans a public hearing in late February on the deal prior to a vote to send it to referendum.
Since owners of the golf course have until October to decide whether or not to The number of homes that subdivide, the referendum could fit on a property drives can’t take place during the value of development November’s municipal elections. Sciota said it could rights, Philips said. Southington Country Club is also take place on May 4 at more valuable to a develop- Derynoski School if the er since there’s already town council decides to move forapproval for a subdivision, a ward with the deal. process that involves cost Making the case and risk. Voters have approved milAn appraisal conducted by Wellspeak, Dugas & Kane of lions of dollars in undesignated open space acquisiPlantsville determined the value of development rights tion funds in recent years. The last referendum on a to be $4.7 million. Golf specific open space acquisicourse owners agreed to a tion was in 2004 when voters sale price of $4.5 million. supported the outright purchase of the Southington Referendum in May Drive-In property for $1.6 On Monday, the Town million. It’s now a town-run Council voted to send the drive-in movie theater. deal to the Planning and Zoning Commission for apThe Southington Country proval. The Board of Finance Club deal isn’t an outright also intends to hold a public purchase and will require more explanation for voters, hearing in February and then take a vote, although according to Town Council
Chairwoman Victoria Triano. She was optimistic that once residents understand the deal, they’ll support it. “The thing is education. Many times, people don’t understand development rights,” she said. “We want to answer questions, we want folks to know what we see when we look at the property.” Chris Palmieri, a Democratic councilor who voted against the Hawk’s Landing deal, said he’s in favor of buying development rights for Southington Country Club. His concerns about using open space acquisition funds for development rights in 2016 don’t apply now, since the referendum is specifically for development rights on the Savage Street golf course. “Instead of nine of us making a decision for the 40,000plus people, this gives all the residents an opportunity to voice their opinion,” Palmieri said. “There’s significant impact if the country club were to be turned into a development… Now it’s a matter of getting all that information to the public so that they truly understand it.” Prior to a referendum on buying the John Weichsel Municipal Center building, Southington officials made a video, visited local organizations and held public hearings touting the benefits of the deal. They’re planning a similar effort this year.
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