Volume 19, Number 15
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Friday, April 15, 2022
SOUTHINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
TEAM GREEN
Police see positive response from increased social media presence By Lauren Sellew Record-Journal staff
The Student Council at Plainville’s Louis Toffolon Elementary School is focused on “paying it forward” through fun activities. The council’s March food drive had a St. Patrick’s Day theme, and green items such as Jell-o, green beans and apple juice boxes were collected for the Plainville Community Food Pantry.
dressed in rain gear looking fairly miserable considering the weather conditions. WithSOUTHINGTON — With more in seconds, the officer whips than 470,000 views on Faceoff the coat, grabs a traffic book, a video announcing the wand and starts singing along police department’s new inias “It’s All Coming Back to Me tiative to better connect with Now” reaches its crescendo. the community by increasing Other officers can soon be its presence on social media is seen dancing around in the garnering a lot of positive atbackground. tention. The video was posted on the Last month, the department department’s Facebook page announced an initiative to in- on March 1 and as of April 6 it crease its presence on social had about a half million views, media, Officer Michael Morely 4,500 shares, over 8,000 likes said. and more than 1,200 comments — most expressing hapThe initiative started with a py surprise at the fun tone. lip-sync video featuring four Since posting the video, the officers singing and dancing department posts consistently along to a Celine Dion song. It starts with a police officer
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Party line vote favors limit on flags flown on town land By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
over what flags are appropriate at Town Hall or the municipal center.
SOUTHINGTON — An ordinance limiting flags on town buildings took a step forward last week and heads to the Town Council for a vote.
Democrats oppose the ordinance and have wanted a process that allows flags to be flown on behalf of acceptable causes and organizations.
Republicans, who hold a majority on the council, have backed an ordinance that would only allow the U.S., Connecticut, town and POW/ MIA flags to be flown on town property. The goal, Republicans have said, is to avoid frequent debates
On April 6, the ordinance review committee took a party-line vote in favor of the ordinance. Republicans supported the ordinance while See Flags, A3
The Town of Southington flag waves in front of Town Hall on Feb. 15. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal