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Volume 17, Number 14
Tops Marketplace reopens just over a year after blaze By Bailey Wright Record-Journal staff
ter a March 3 fire destroyed the building.
Just over a year after a fire destroyed the store, Tops Marketplace is back and open for business.
Salerno said there were about 20 people lined up outside about an hour before the 8 a.m. opening. Senior citizens and first responders were allowed in first. Other customers could start shopping around 9 a.m.
“It’s been crazy busy,” said owner John Salerno around 11:30 a.m. on Friday, March 27, the day the store reopened. “Just incredible. We can’t stop virtually hugging this morning.” The family-owned grocery store, 887 Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike, has spent the last year in rebuild mode af-
“The registers are constantly going, which is really amazing,” he said. Salerno said it’s been an incredible experience, seeing
Mike Ryan, of Southington, shops during the grand opening of the new Tops Marketplace, 887 Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike, on Friday. The family-owned grocery store has spent the last year in rebuild mode after a fire destroyed the building on March 3, 2019.
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Golf courses are an oasis, but the rules are strict By Sean Krofssik and Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
While the greens and fairways have fallen silent at Hunter Golf Course in Meriden, they remain bustling at the other area courses in Southington and Wallingford. Or at least as bustling as you can get in these times of social distancing. Southington Country Club, Hawk’s Landing Country Club, Wallingford Country Club, The Tradition Golf
Joe Gaudio looks over Will Carbone’s shoulder as they line up a putt on the seventh green during a round of golf with friends at the Southington Country Club on Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal See Golf, A13 Tuesday.
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Board of Education hires director for pupil personnel services By Michael Gagne Record-Journal staff
as an administrator and certified as an educator with an endorsement in hearing imSchool officials announced paired education, according the hiring of a new director to a resume school officials of pupil personnel services, a provided. She holds a masposition that oversees special ter’s degree in education education services across the from Smith College in Southington Public Schools. Northampton, Massachusetts. Cavallaro also Rebecca Cavallaro will start in the new position on July 1. holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and She will earn a salary of communications from West$158,050, according to the district. She will succeed the ern Connecticut State University. current director, Margaret Walsh, who will retire at the Cavallaro was selected from end of the school year. a total pool of 40 applicants. That pool was narrowed to Cavallaro, who is presently four finalists, Connellan said employed in a similar posiin an email. tion in the Oxford Public Schools district, is certified
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