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By Michael Gagne Record-Journal staff
On Tuesday morning, a motorcade of teachers and staff from Thalberg Elementary School drove along the streets where their students live. Teachers held up signs, waved pom poms, honked horns and banged cowbells, as they drove past their students' homes. Students and their families, who had anticipated the motorcade, gathered on their lawns and waved back to their teachers. All of this was to keep the school community’s connection strong as it’s been more than a week since students and teachers occupied classrooms. Schools are closed as a precautionary measure See Thalberg, A4
By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
A finance board budget vote scheduled for Wednesday evening, March 25, was set to give town taxpayers an opportunity to take part through email and streaming video. The Board of Finance planned to vote on a budget recommendation that’ll go to the Town Council for final approval.
Staff at Thalberg Elementary School kicked off distance learning Tuesday by driving around the school’s neighborhoods to get students excited. Eric Cotton, Record-Journal
Library board backs $14M facility plan By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
to weigh in at a referendum in November.
The library board is recommending a new library building at $14 million despite the objection of some who wanted a larger structure.
The town’s capital budget included $13.9 million for a new library, a figure that Town Council leaders said was a maximum.
The board voted 6 to 3 on Thursday, March 19, for the plan that will go to the Town Council for approval. Voters will have a chance
Initial estimates for a new library that had everything library officials wanted were nearly $20 million. Two options were under consider-
ation: renovating and adding to the existing library or building a new structure on the south portion of the property. With Thursday’s vote, the board recommended a new building that’s smaller than designs released earlier this year. Library officials wanted a new library to increase space and address
John Leary, finance board chairman, said town business needed to continue amidst the coronavirus but didn’t want people gathering for a vote. “We’re not completely open to the public because we don’t want a crowd,” he said. “At the same time we have to get this budget sorted.” Leary said he planned to be at the meeting in person with Town Manager Mark Sciota and finance director Emilia Portelinha. Other board members were to take part by phone. Residents could watch a live stream of the video at the town’s website and ask questions which were emailed in advance to the town manager to be read during the public comment portion of the meeting.
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Kevin Beaudoin, a board Democrat, said there was agreement on the budget up until just a few weeks ago.
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“It’s like a family of six buying a two-bedroom house,” he said.
“Anything new is a benefit,” Baker said.
Since the aisles in a new library would be wider to accommodate wheelchairs,
The library planning committee, led by library board member Joanne Kelleher, recommended a new building at a cost of nearly $17 million.
Keeping down costs Mary Baker, a Republican board member who supported a new building at $13.9 million, said the cost of a new library had to be one that residents could afford. In addition to a new library, residents will vote on $10 million in road improvements in the November referendum. “Some of us were very conscious of the cost,” she said.
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Baker hopes the new building will have a flexible layout that allows services to move in response to need. While she would have liked a larger building, a new library won’t
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The Board of Education voted to request a $101.6 million budget, an increase of $2.8 million, or 2.84 percent. School officials cited rising salary, special education and contracted services costs. General government spending is proposed to increase for similar reasons, Sciota said. With normal increases
Leary said the finance board had been considering a fairly routine budget request. That changed with the economic damage Leary anticipates will follow the coronavirus quarantines and business closures.
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Total spending is rising by more than 8 percent, the bulk of which are major purchases funded by the town's cash reserves. Sciota's budget includes $2.9 million from cash reserves to buy the John Weichsel Municipal Center, a purchase approved by voters in November. It also includes capital projects such as road improvements, roof work and equipment.
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Principal Katherine Reeves and teacher Karen Debishop discuss the start of distance learning at Thalberg Elementary School in Southington. They led a caravan of more than 40 vehicles around the school’s neighborhoods to get students excited. Eric Cotton, Record-Journal
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dents’ parents are working from home as well. The motorcade served as a roving pep rally to lift all their spirits.
“The other thing we wanted to do was encourage our “There was 43 of us,” said parents, who have now been Thalberg Principal Katherine put into the position where Reeve said. “It was very well they're working from home received. I have gotten many and teaching their children. emails since I got back We know how hard that is. home. Our families were so We wanted to spread some thrilled to see their teachers. cheer and work together,” It cheered everybody up.” Reeves said. Reeves said when school The motorcade was the closed nearly a week-and-abrainchild of Thalberg math half ago, the plan then specialist Sabina Skarzynski. would be to implement a Skarzynski said she had via temporary distance learning the social media site Faceprogram, with the goal of book teachers at a school in preventing learning regresIllinois had decided to drive sion until students and by their students' homes. teachers could their physical classrooms. “Their teachers went by. And I thought, how aweNow it looks like that dissome is this? You can see the tance learning program will love and support. The kids be longer term. Many stu-
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3 local COVID-19 cases reported By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
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The 48-year-old man was tested at Middlesex Hospital and is in critical condition, according to hospital spokeswoman Amanda Falcone.
As new cases of coronavirus are confirmed across the state, three Southington residents — the first in town — have tested positive for the virus. According to the state Department of Public Health, 223 Connecticut residents had been confirmed to have contracted the virus, 43 of whom have been hospitalized and five who have died as of Saturday. One case concerns a Meriden resident, first announced on Thursday, March 19.
Due to patient privacy laws, Falcone couldn't offer additional information about the patient or who he may have come in contact with. Close contacts were ordered to quarantine for 14 days, the city said in a statement. Details on the Southington cases were not available from DPH or local officials.
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The following departments are fully staffed: Southington Police Department, Southington Fire Department, Water Pollution Control and Community Services; Highway/ Parks shall maintain a crew on a rotating basis until further notice; Parks and linear trail will remain open but playscape will be closed to the public; The following Town departments will be operating with essential personnel only and providing limited service.
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Couples wrestle with wedding plans By Bailey Wright Record-Journal staff
However, the pandemic seems to be slowing future business too, since calls have halted for showings.
Two weeks before their planned wedding, Carlie Luchino and fiance Michael Ciarlone decided to postpone.
“We’re not really gonna feel the full effects of it until late on in summer,” he said.
The move was prompted by a state ban on gatherings of 50 people or more in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus.
The ballroom is closed, but still able to make appointments with clients interested in booking the space down the road.
If the virus hadn’t spread to the United States, the Wallingford couple would be getting married next weekend, on Saturday, in New Haven.
How the less than three-yearold ballroom will make it out of this is unknown. Florio said they’ll need to rely on disaster relief from the government.
“Honestly I thought I would be much more upset than I am. It was kind of a relief, knowing that we’re safe (with a new date),” Luchino said.
“I don’t see how we can continue,” Florio said. “We’re gonna try everything we can.”
The Wallingford couple invited around 130 guests, some from out of state, who worried about their own travel plans. Luchino feels lucky and relieved they were able to easily rebook the venue and all related vendors for a May 9 wedding, but is starting to worry that another delay may be necessary. She said the venue didn’t have any other Saturday openings until fall. “At the time we thought May would just be a safe choice,” Luchino said. “We’re getting to the point we’re even worried that we’ll have to postpone again.”
Caroline Andrukiewicz and Jay Adamski, a Meriden native, may postpone the celebration with family and friends, but still plan to tie the knot on May 23. “We’re just excited to get married and if it's an elopement ... it's a heck of a story to tell our kids someday,” Andrukiewicz said.
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Event planner Carisa Lockery, owner of Pink Olive Events in Cheshire, plans events for August, which includes postponements from COVID-19. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal Event planner Carisa Lockery, owner of Pink Olive Events in Cheshire, says she’s had a few salons, tuxedo businesses, taithese bans will be lifted and ding reception. postponements too, including lors, DJs, henna artists, some worry when they are, one in June. For them, the hardest part has family and friends will be florists, caterers, and more are been not being able to tell adversely affected. wary to travel. They’re all rescheduling for friends and family traveling the busiest months of the year, The Aqua Turf in Southington For some of these businesses, from out of state whether to assuming all their vendors can the loss of not only weddings, said on Wednesday that come. If they do elope, they be available as well. but proms and other spring clients have postponed or plan to have a celebration and summer events will hit canceled about 85 events in with everyone later in the “It's gonna get really hard behard financially. March and April. The Silver year. cause I’m gonna not be doing City Ballroom didn’t have anything for like four months Joseph Florio, Silver City Ball“We’re right at the cusp of that weddings scheduled, but has and then all the sudden I’m current eight week (recompostponed a Quinceanera Ex- room owner, said it’s still the gonna lose my mind for four mendation),” Andrukiewicz po and canceled its own East- slow season for events, so he months,” she said. said. didn’t have to cancel many. er and Mother’s Day brunchFor March and April weddings es. or other events, postponing is With canceled or postponed really the only option with ev- events comes disruption to 2YHU <HDUV 6SHFLDOL]LQJ ,Q 5HVLGHQWLDO 6\VWHPV er-increasing social gathering the lives and businesses of limits. many vendors as well. Photog-
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Sargent to coach girls lacrosse By Sean Krofssik Record-Journal staff
Knights from 2014 through 2019.
Lacrosse has been a life passion for Dave Sargent.
Sargent, along with coaching at Johnstown Senior High School in New York, has been a club coach both in New York and Connecticut.
The New York native grew up playing the game in the suburbs of Albany and got into coaching right out of college. Now a Southington resident, Sargent takes up varsity reins in his new town. The 36-year old has been hired to coach Southington’s girls lacrosse program. Sargent replaces Jill Pomposi, a 2005 Southington grad who coached the Blue
He was involved in Southington Youth Lacrosse for a period of time before his work in modular construction took him back to New York, where he coached the Scorpion Lacrosse Club. “I pretty much coach lacrosse year round,” Sargent said. Last year, Sargent was an as-
sistant at the high school level, but would still commute back to Southington when he could. Work brought him back to Southington as the school’s girls lacrosse job opened up.
vanced to the state tournarment. He knows many of the Blue Knights from coaching the “Dark Knights,” a club team comprised mostly of players from central Connecticut.
“We welcome Dave to high school coaching in Connecticut after getting a lot of experience in New York,” said Southington Athletic Director Steve Risser. “We are looking forward to his contributions to the Blue Knights girls lacrosse program.”
“I have a lot of the girls as a part of the Dark Knights,” Sargent said. “I have a great relationship with the team. They are very strong athletically. The team gets great support from the school and the booster club. It’s a perfect job situation and it made sense for me to apply for the position. It was just a perfect fit.”
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“Finally, we need to have fun,” he added. “Winning comes second. You have to have fun. You will bond more as a team if you have fun. We will have fun built into our practices and we will have Fun Fridays, which will include different competitions that may not be lacrosse related.” Whenever the Blue Knights take the field — in light of the coronavirus crisis, with Connecticut schools shut down, the CIAC has suspended the start of the spring season — Sargent has high expectations. There are 12 returning seniors, including four-year players Emma Doran, Brooke Lynch and Amy Chudy. Goaltender Mackenzie Brown is heading Division I UMass-Lowell.
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Living in a town like ‘no other’ By Olivia L. Lawrence The Citizen
one said it was poor.
With all that’s going on in the world, spring seemed to slip in the backdoor, practically unnoticed. But despite the trials humankind is experiencing, the crocus, snowdrops and squill made their annual appearance and daffies are coming along, too. Spring bird migration is bringing some old friends back to our feeders and the While it’s okay for us to be longer days after the critical, we don’t like it equinox are allowing plenty of time to get some fresh air. much if outsiders are. With that in mind, let’s take a As we’re spending a lot more look at some commentary time at home, perhaps enon how Southington ranks in joying a stroll around the Connecticut. There are neighborhood for entertain- many analyses about the ment, it seems like a good state’s towns – you’re entime to think about why we couraged to do your own relike where we live and how search -- and one interesting does our town support our reference is a website called experience. niche.com. It provides a lot of data, resident input and Despite occasional “grass is other insights into where we greener” moments, most of live. us like our communities.
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niche says it used U.S. Census data and “expert insights” to determining its 2020 rankings. The company explains its methodology on the website. Here’s the nutshell: “Southington, with a population of 43,763, is one of the best places to live in Connecticut. Living in Southington offers residents a sparse suburban feel and most residents own their homes. There are a lot of To start off, one commenter restaurants, coffee shops, on the site summed up the town this way. “Southington and parks. Many retirees live is a very large town but there in Southington and residents tend to lean liberal. The is a small town feel. The public schools are above avleaders of the town are very accessible to the people and erage.” can easily voice their opinThe town also ranked high ions. The education system as: one of the best suburbs is great.” to buy a house; a good choice for young professionniche awarded the town an als; and also a great place to overall grade of A-miraise a family. nus. Out of 96 local reviewers, 74 rated the town very The town scored a B-minus good or excellent. No one on crime and safety, not unsaid it was horrible and only usual for areas that include significant commercial districts. Most crime was property related and the major crime categories were well below national averages.
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businesses shutting down,” said Sherri-Lin DiNello, the district’s business director. “We want everyone to know they can participate regardless of income level.” Students and any younger siblings in the household can each get two breakfasts and two lunches. That provides school food for the majority of the day from Monday to Saturday. Meals will be provided from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 schools. Families can pull up to the school and a school worker will bring a meal to the curb. Meals are not being delivered from Southington High School.
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“We are keeping a count on all meals distributed,” she said. “I do not know how many more meals will be distributed with the expansion but I do think that it may increase as families begin to suffer loss of income due to businesses closing.” School officials will be reassessing how many meal locations the district will run. DiNello said the district will be communicating with families about any changes. Joseph Baczewski, Board of Education vice chairman, said expanding the number of meal sites helps avoid lines and crowds as people pick up food. More sites also means
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There are over 15,000 businesses across four cities, Meriden, Southington, Wallingford and Cheshire, whose hard work, dedication and success make our communities a great place to live and work. The Readers’ Choice program was created to recognize and reward our local businesses and to be a resource when you might be looking for a dentist, car repair, or even a place to have dinner with your family. Over 210,000 votes were cast, and over 500 businesses have earned the right to call themselves the Best of the Best and be celebrated at an exclusive first-class gala all for them. Congratulations again, to our 2019 Readers’ Choice winners.
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