The Southington Citizen April 16, 2021 by Record Journal

Volume 18, Number 16

Town gets sued over watershed, reservoir valuation By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff

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Shuttle Meadow Reservoir is seen from above Long Bottom Road in Southington on April 6. Photos by Dave Zajac, Record-Journal

New Britain’s water department is suing Southington over the valuation of property the city owns in town, including Wassel and Shuttle Meadow reservoirs.

The 2021 spring season marks a full return to competition for Connecticut’s high school athletes. For the first time since the winter of 2019-20, there is a complete regular season and one that is starting on time. For the first time since the fall of 2019, there will be a complete state postseason.

New Britain’s Board of Water Commissioners is contesting a much higher valuation of more than 1,200 acres of water department land.

That said, when the 2021 spring season kicks off Saturday, it is by no means a return to “normal.”

Southington held a revaluation of taxable properties in town in 2019, which generally increased property

While wearing masks during out-

See Lawsuit, A4 A bicyclist pedals past Shuttle Meadow Reservoir.

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Increased tax break for firefighters considered By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff

Town officials are considering more attractive tax abatements for residents who volunteer as firefighters. If approved by the Town Council,

volunteers could get up to $2,000 off their property taxes starting with the bills sent out in July of 2022 and January of 2023. The Board of Fire Commissioners approved the increase. The Town Council discussed it Monday night

and plans to hold a public hearing on the boost later this month.

ers on the rolls and to attract new ones.

Southington has a fire department with both career and volunteer firefighters. The town, like combination departments across the country, has struggled to keep volunteer firefight-

Chris Poulos, a Town Council member, said town and department leaders are trying to find ways to mainSee Tax break, A2

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tain the volunteer force. “We have been working diligently to find ways to attract and retain our volunteer firefighters,” he said. “This is just another thing that demonstrates to those who choose to serve that we value and appreciate their service.” Poulos said he was glad to have both volunteer and career firefighters serving the town. He described the tax

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door competition is optional for athletes, mandatory mask requirements do remain in place on the sidelines and in the grandstands.

“This increase is in line with Town Attorney Jeremy Taylor a public act passed by the said the increase would House and Senate,” Taylor bring a full share from said. $1,500 to $2,000 in tax abateVolunteers also receive a ments. small stipend for each call The fire chief reports to the they attend. In 2016, the fire town’s tax collector on how board changed the reimmany months of service bursement rate from an each volunteer has, making hourly stipend to a per call that volunteer eligible for up amount of $7.02. to a full share of tax abateThe council’s next meeting ment. A few months of seris scheduled for April 26 at 7 vice would result in a smallp. m. er tax abatement.

n Lyman Hall & Sheehan: Adhering to state rules, the Wallingford schools are allowing spectators up to 50 percent of facility capacity.

Food and drink are not allowed. Spectators cannot go on the playing surface and must leave once the event is over.

Visiting fans will be not be allowed at boys volleyball matches and even the number of home fans may be limited. For the baseball and softball rivalry games with Platt, when larger crowds are expected, a limited number of tickets will likely be sold in advance.

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n Platt : The Panthers are also adhereing to the “twofans-per-player” policy for

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Britain’s mayor Erin Stewart declined to comment on the suit.

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values. Tax bills going out this year will be calculated based on the new valuations.

New Britain’s largest holdings in Southington are in the northeast corner of town. They include the Shuttle Meadow and Wassel reservoirs as well as surrounding land.

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New Britain Water Department also owns properties on the far western side of Assessment doubles town near Mount Vernon Road. Those holdings inJoseph Skelly Jr., an attorney clude 158 Cascade Ridge, a for New Britain, said the waThe property at 315 Long 12-acre parcel that includes ter department’s land had Bottom Road consists almost a small pond and stream. been valued around $2,100 entirely of the Shuttle Meadper acre. That changed with Another property is 156 ow Reservoir and was asthe 2019 revaluation. acres, of no address, off A “Public Water Supply” sign is seen here on April 6 in front sessed at just over $500,000 Mount Vernon Road near before the revaluation. Last “They’ve got us in the over of Wassel Reservoir on Andrews Street in Southington. the New Britain Reservoir year, the water department $5,000 range” per acre, he Dave Zajac, Record-Journal paid $15,750 in taxes for the just over the town line. said. “It’s definitely double 300-acres of reservoir and what it was.” has 14 properties in Southit were farmland,” Skelly Assessment appeals land. i ng to n . said. “It ’s not like your highIn the suit, Skelly wrote that Jim Bowes, chairman of est and best use value.” state law requires towns to New Britain appealed the as- After the revaluation, South- Southington’s Board of Asington assessed the property tax water supply land as Skelly said New Britain has sessment of its water departsessment Appeals, said he at $1,110,720. farmland rather than at its an appraiser who can supment properties earlier this believed the town’s assessdeveloped value. port the valuation of around year. Last month, SouthingThe assessment is 70 percent ment process worked for ton’s Board of Assessment of the appraised property New Britain properties re“It’s watershed property. It’s $2,100 per acre. The New Britain Water Department Appeals voted not to change value. Property is taxed cently revalued. supposed to be assessed as if the valuations. based on the assessed value The board was unanimous Skelly filed the lawsuit in Su- and the mill rate, with the in rejecting New Britain’s mill rate being the amount Lillian S Polak perior Court at the end of appeal. of tax dollars owed on every Broker/Associate, ABR, GRI, LTG last month. Century 21 Centurion Honor Society 1% Nationally $1,000 of assessed property jbuchanan@record-journal.com Century 21 Quality Service Producer 203-317-2230 Southington town officials value. Network Agent Certified Twitter: @JBuchananRJ declined to comment on the polaklillian@gmail.com Cartus Relocation Specialist A spokeswoman for New matter since it involved Lilpolak.com

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Health officials say widespread vaccination critical As news about COVID-19 variants, vaccine duration, and the likelihood of boosters changes daily, health officials are united in the message that widespread vaccination is the best way to control the pandemic. Vaccine researchers are continually reviewing effectiveness, duration and safety against the novel coronavirus and newer strains. Booster shots are likely, but questions surround whether that will mean in six months or a year, and whether it will be the current vaccine or a new one designed to combat a leading variant, said Angela Hwang, group president of the Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group. “The matter of boosters is in our reality,” Hwang told reporters in a recent press briefing. “We will continue to gather evidence on safety and effectiveness.” Defeating the virus requires “regular surveillance and public health measures and getting vaccinated.” The current vaccines to protect against COVID-19 are proving effective against variants of the coronavirus now in Connecticut, said Dr. Virginia Bieluch, chief of infectious diseases at both the Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain and MidState Medical Center in Meriden.

Lowering the rate of infection through mask-wearing and vaccination could stop the contagious variants while they are still rare, and prevent other viruses from gaining new mutations that could cause more trouble, health experts said. It is estimated that 75 to 80 percent of the population needs to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. A variant is a change from the original form of a virus. Viruses constantly change through mutation, and new variants of any virus—including COVID-19—are expected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sometimes new variants pop up and disappear, and other times they persist and spread. Three variants named after their places of discovery — Brazil, the United Kingdom and South Africa — are more easily transmitted than the original novel coronavirus, but infections can See Vaccine, A12

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be prevented through the same safety measures and available vaccine, health experts said. The U.K. variant has now become more dominant in the U.S. “We are in a race against time,” Keith Grant of Hartford HealthCare said. “What we do in the next few weeks will determine what our summer looks like.”

New variant As if there weren’t enough unknowns, researchers recently discovered a “double mutant” variant in the San Francisco area. The variant was first discovered in parts of India and is called a double mutant because it has two mutations of the spike protein that researchers are interested in. The spike protein in SARSCoV-2 is what the virus uses to latch onto cells and replicate. The Pfizer BioNTech and the Moderna vaccines use mR-

NA technology that teaches cells how to make a protein—or even just a piece of a protein—that triggers an immune response inside our bodies. Both vaccines require two doses to maintain between 91 to 100 percent efficacy, based on CDC and FDA guidelines. The single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses a different approach to instruct human cells to make the SARS-2 spike protein, which then triggers an immune response. It has a 72 percent efficacy rate and requires only one dose. Doctors said all three vaccines fight serious illness and death. Hwang said Pfizer BioNTech can be ready with a modified vaccine in less than 160 days, if needed. “The beauty is once you have the genetic sequence you can quickly make it and in short order make a new vaccine,” she said. “Whichever way this goes, we have options and we have solutions. We can respond to whatever way this virus changes.”

‘We can control this’ The CDC released findings that the Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna vaccines proved highly effective against the variants and significantly reduced transmission. Bieluch said there isn’t any reason to believe this won’t continue, providing people get vaccinated when it’s their turn. The positivity rate and hospitalizations in Connecticut and the Northeast have risen in recent weeks, despite larger numbers of vaccines administered. Bieluch and other health care experts said what they are seeing are greater numbers of younger people being admitted to intensive care units and put on ventilators because they haven’t been vaccinated yet.

aches, fuzzy thinking and neurological issues, months after having the virus. “Even if you don’t get admitted to the hospital, you could have some significant problems,” Bieluch said. A combination of factors is leading to the increased numbers of young people getting infected. Lifestyle issues such as socializing indoors or in crowds while not wearing a mask, jobs with frequent public interaction, and the more easily transmissible variants are causing much of the uptick. Health care experts point to the success in nursing home patients, and the decline in older people contracting COVID-19 and becoming ill as proof the vaccine works.

nursing homes have seen a 96 percent decline in new COVID cases among residents since the peak during the week of Dec. 20 of last year when there were more than 30,000 new resident cases. Along with the lowest number of new COVID cases, nursing home industry reports show COVID-related deaths in nursing homes declined by 91 percent since Dec. 20, 2020. “Looking back at what’s happening in nursing homes, that says the vaccines are working,” Bieluch said. “We’re seeing far fewer of the older individuals. We’re getting so close, I’m hopeful with the vaccine that we will significantly control this pandemic. Please stay safe and we can control this.”

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about 2,000 doses per week. HHC officials said there is enough J&J supply Hartford HealthCare has anavailable, but the doublenounced that it will make the “If a patient wants to get vac- dose mRNA vaccines from COVID-19 vaccine available cinated before discharge, we Pfizer and Moderna would can make that happen,” said be used if necessary. to patients in its nine emerGary Havican, president of gency rooms statewide, inthe Hospital of Central Con- “We have continued to including MidState Medical necticut and MidState Medi- crease the number of vacCenter in Meriden. cal Center. ”It is part of our cines,” said HHC President At an April 8 press conferJeff Flaks. “The only chalcommitment to make sure ence in New Britain, HHC lenge is the supply.” the vaccine is available to officials said its facilities anyone who wants it.” Health care officials are in a would begin screening parace to get as many people Hartford HealthCare surtients who arrive at the passed 300,000 doses of the vaccinated as possible, Flaks emergency rooms for other said. People coming into the three vaccine types in the ailments to receive the sinemergency room provide an gle-dose Johnson & Johnson past four months. The new opportunity to vaccinate anvaccine. The organization al- program is expected to add so is making the vaccine available to patients before they are discharged.

other cohort in the community. Nursing home and rehabilitation center operators have expressed concerns over unvaccinated patients spreading the virus after leaving the hospital. The pilot program will ensure those patients have access to the vaccine prior to arriving in a new center or returning to a nursing home, health officials said.

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What side effects should we expect after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination?

Side effects are possible whenever receiving a vaccine. They can be local, meaning the side effect is limited to the area where the vaccine was injected (e.g. arm soreness, swelling or redness), or they can be systemic, meaning they can affect the whole body (e.g. fever, chills, fatigue, or muscle aches). Most of us have experienced a sore arm after getting a tetanus shot (a local side effect) which then goes away after a day or two. Many of us who receive the flu shot have also felt a little run down afterwards (a systemic side effect), and may have mistakenly assumed that the flu shot gave us the flu. In reality, these side effects are a sign that your immune system is working hard to produce antibodies to keep you safe. It is hard work fighting viruses and bacteria, and the extra energy needed to do so can make you feel a little unwell in the meantime. In data published by the CDC regarding the first month of COVID-19 vaccinations (12/14/20 – 1/13/21), nine side effects were reported by people who received at least one dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. Local side effects on day 1 after receiving the 1st dose included: 1) Injection Site Pain (73% of Pfizer vaccine recipients, 78% of Moderna vaccine recipients), and 2) Injection Site Swelling (4% of Pfizer vaccine recipients, 6% of Moderna vaccine recipients). Systemic side effects on day 1 after receiving the 1st dose included: 1) Fatigue (22% for Pfizer, 25% for Moderna), 2) Headache (18% for Pfizer, 20% for Moderna), 3) Muscle Aches (15% for Pfizer, 18% for Moderna), 4) Chills (6% for Pfizer, 8% for Moderna), 5) Fever (6% for Pfizer, 8% for Moderna), 6) Joint Pain (5% for Pfizer, 7% for Moderna), and 7) Nausea (4% for Pfizer, 6% for Moderna). Local side effects after receiving the 2nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine from the data mentioned above include: 1) Injection Site Pain (79%) & 2) Injection Site Swelling (9%). Systemic side effects after receiving the 2nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine include: 1) Fatigue (54%), 2) Headache (43%), 3) Muscle Aches (47%), 4) Chills (31%), 5) Fever (29%), 6) Joint Pain (24%), and 7) Nausea (14%). All nine of the reported side effects increased with the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, some by as much as five times (e.g. fever).

¿Qué efectos secundarios se pueden esperar después de recibir la vacuna contra el COVID-19?

Unfortunately, no data was published on those who received their 2nd Moderna dose. However, anecdotal evidence regarding Moderna is consistent with the Pfizer vaccine results.

How likely is a severe reaction?

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Anaphylaxis, a severe potentially life-threatening reaction that can happen within seconds of exposure to an allergen, has occurred following COVID-19 vaccination, though it is very uncommon. Signs of anaphylaxis include difficulty breathing, swelling of the mouth, hives, a fast heart rate, and nausea or vomiting. According to data on the first month of COVID vaccination (12/14/20 – 1/18/2021), reported anaphylaxis cases were as follows: 1) Pfizer: 4.7 cases per million doses of vaccine administered, and 2) Moderna: 2.5 cases per million doses of vaccines administered. For people with a diagnosed allergy to any component in the COVID vaccine, COVID vaccination is contraindicated. It is also contraindicated to receive a 2nd dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine if a severe allergic reaction (e.g. anaphylaxis) occurred after the first dose. Those who experience a severe allergic reaction to the first dose of Pfizer or Moderna may consider the Johnson & Johnson vaccine (Janssen). To ensure patient safety, all vaccine recipients are required to remain under observation for at least 15 minutes following each vaccine dose. Those with a history of anaphylaxis to anything other than a COVID vaccine or component in a COVID vaccine, are required to remain for 30 minutes of observation. Those with a history of an immediate allergic reaction to other vaccines or injectable therapies may consider COVID vaccination and are also required to remain under observation for 30 min. Millions of people in the US have safely been vaccinated against COVID-19. If you have any questions regarding vaccination, please contact your primary care provider.

Es posible sentir efectos secundarios cuando uno recibe una vacuna. Pueden ser localizados, lo que quiere decir que el efecto está limitado al área donde recibió la inyección (ej. dolor en el brazo, inflamación o enrojecimiento), o pueden ser sistémicos, lo que quiere decir que puede afectar el cuerpo entero (ej. Fiebre, escalofríos, agotamiento, o dolores musculares). La mayoría de nosotros ha sentido dolor en el brazo después de recibir la inyección contra el tétano (un efecto secundario localizado) el cual se va después de uno o dos días. Muchos de los que hemos recibido la vacuna contra la influenza (flu) también nos hemos sentido un poco agotados (un efecto secundario sistémico), y por error hemos asumido que la vacuna contra la influenza nos ha dado influenza. En realidad, estos efectos secundarios son una señal que su sistema inmune está trabajando fuerte para producir anticuerpos para mantenerlo sano. La batalla contra un virus y bacteria es un trabajo fuerte y la energía adicional que se necesita para batallar le puede hacer sentir un poco enfermo. En la información que el CDC publicó acerca del primer mes de las vacunas contra el COVID-19 (14/12/20 - 13/1/21), se informó que los que recibieron por lo menos una dosis de la vacuna de Pfizer o Moderna reportaron nueve efectos secundarios. Los efectos localizados en el primer dia de recibir la primera dosis incluyeron: 1) Dolor en el área donde recibió la inyección (73% de los que recibieron la vacuna de Pfizer, 78% de los que recibieron la vacuna de Moderna), y 2) Inflamación del área donde recibió la inyección (4% de los que recibieron la vacuna de Pfizer, 6% de los que recibieron la vacuna de Moderna). Los efectos sistémicos en el primer dia de recibir la primera dosis incluyeron: 1) Agotamiento (22% de Pfizer, 25% de Moderna), 2) Dolor de cabeza (18% de Pfizer, 20% de Moderna), 3) Dolor Muscular (15% de Pfizer, 18% de Moderna), 4) Escalofrios (6% de Pfizer, 8% de Moderna), 5) Fiebre (6% de Pfizer, 8% de Moderna), 6) Dolor en las Articulaciones (5% de Pfizer, 7% de Moderna) y 7) Náuseas (4% de Pfizer, 6% de Moderna). Los efectos secundarios localizados después de recibir la segunda dosis de la vacuna de Pfizer de la información mencionada anteriormente incluyeron: 1) Dolor en el área donde recibió la inyección (79%) y 2) Inflamación del área donde recibió la inyección (9%). Los efectos sistémicos después de recibir la segunda dosis de Pfizer

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Meet the Bradleys Meet the Bradleys. Gather at the Ichabod Bradley House for an unforgettable experience, April 17 and 25, May 15 and 23, and June 19 and 27, 10 to 10:30 a.m. You will be greeted in the Tavern Room of the Bradley Home — a historical treasure that is on the National Registry. The room has nine working fireplaces and seven authentic colonial murals. Learn about the history of the Bradley family that lived in the house for 120 years, and the Tuttle family that lived in the house for another 80 years. Tours will be offered throughout the year. Visit bradleymountainfarm.com for more information.

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Apple Harvest Festival The Apple Harvest Festival tradition is planning a comeback to celebrate its 52nd year. Organizers are optimistic that pandemic guidelines will be in line with the event dates, Oct. 13 and Oct. 8 -10. Sponsor contributions play a big part in the success of the event. If you are a local business that wants to make a positive contribution to this 52nd celebration, contact Melissa Cocuzza, sponsorship coordinator, at appleharvestfest@ aol.com; 860-276-1966.

Star Wars concert The Southington Public Library presents Connecticut musician/music instructor John Ingrassia, who will be bringing his Music Matters program online with a special Star Wars show Wednesday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m. Registration is required. Visit southingtonlibrary.org.

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Wheeler's 36th Annual Golf Classic will be held Wednesday, Sept. 15 at the Country Club of Famington. Proceeds will benefit Wheeler Clinic’s Basic Needs Fund, which addresses a range of environmental and social factors that interfere with a patient’s health and well-being, but which are not addressed by other means of funding. Visit wheelerclinic.org for details.

New exhibit Explore the beautiful passages written by Greg Ray Dunnett accompanied in perfect harmony with illustrations from Clinton Deckert. Southington Community Cultural Arts, 93 Main St., will present the exhibit through April 30. For more information, call 860-2761581 or email southingtonarts@gmail.com.

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Should I put my house in a trust? For some homeowners, it could be a smart move, but you need to know all the facts. Read on for some insights into this estate planning strategy to see if it is right for you.

By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen

There’s not much that could be pulled from the waters of the Quinnipiac River that would surprise David James of the Quinnipiac River Watershed Association. The long-serving QRWA president has presided over more than a dozen Q-River cleanups from the group’s headquarters on Oregon Trail Road in Meriden.

There are many different types of trusts, but the two kinds of trusts most often used in estate planning are a revocable “living” trust and an irrevocable trust. Revocable or Living Trust You have complete control over your trust until your death. You can liquify the trust entirely if your circumstances change; you can amend the trust. Your home is still included in your taxable estate at the time of your death, although estate taxes affect relatively few people. Without a Living Trust, if you have several properties — a vacation home, for instance — your family needs to deal with each state’s probate laws and their required fees, which would mean more problems for them, including hiring attorneys in each state and traveling to each state for court hearings. This would be the consequence of you having left the houses in a will and not a trust. Placing your home in a Revocable “Living” Trust can help avoid probate in multiple jurisdictions. However, a Living Trust will not protect your assets from being taken by creditors nor protect it from the cost of long-term care.

In order to have the event during COVID, this year’s clean-up is being done throughout the entire month of April. Volunteers are asked to “clean independently,” without the benefit of the full group or a QRWA guide on site. Trash bags will be supplied. James asks the potential volunteer email for additional instructions to qrwainfo@att.net. Volunteers may also go www.qrwa.org for the event link sign-up.

Irrevocable Trust As the name says, you cannot change this kind of trust, so you will not be able to take any assets out or even dissolve the trust if you change your mind. Irrevocable trusts can protect assets from creditors — but the courts take a dim view of trusts established for the purpose of defrauding creditors. Connecticut does allow the creation of a Domestic Asset Protection Trust. An Irrevocable Trust can be set up to protect your assets from the cost of long-term care. This Irrevocable Trust is often used in estate planning.

Volunteers are at the core of the event. Many, like James, are multi-year volunteers. James, a Meriden resident, offered one reason for his commitment. “Just because Meriden is a less affluent town shouldn’t mean it’s residents have less access to the benefits of healthy natural surroundings.”

said. From its inception, the haul from each cleanup has been estimated at the conclusion of each event. “In the early years we estimated about a ton at each event because of a lot of metal that was pulled out of the river, and now we estimate about 500-1000 pounds per event,” James said. Some of the weirdest items that volunteers have plucked out of the river are bowling balls, guns, cars, and prosthetics.

The detritus makes its way into the waterways when tossed from passing cars; other larger items may be a result of illegal dumping. Other garbage may wash in from storm drains and roadways.

The source of the Quinnipiac River begins in the Dead Swamp in Farmington. Altogether, the length of the river is 45 miles and captures portions of 18 towns including Cheshire, Meriden and Southington. It winds its way through isolated, suburban, More typical items along the and urban areas before To initiate actions to clean river and nearby trails the waterways, the first regu- are cigarette butts, beer and emptying into Long Island Sound at New Haven Harlarly held QRWA river nip bottles, balloons, and all bor. The watershed is home cleanups were during the sorts of plastic. Tires regularto more than 200,000 peo1990s, becoming semi-annu- ly turn up, as do shopping ple. al in the early 2000s, James carts.

Although trusts can be a good addition to your estate plan, they come with some caveats that you should consider: Pay attention to the properties held — you may want to include more than just your home. You need to be consistent about transferring other possessions to the trust as you acquire them and likewise eliminate those you no longer own or want in the trust. If you put just your home in a trust, your other possessions may still undergo probate. This is true whether you have a Will or not. Please contact Ericson, Scalise & Mangan, PC to understand your options. Laws change frequently, as do your life and financial circumstances, so evaluate your trust every two or three years. If you think you might benefit from a trust, give us a call.

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Autism Services and Resources Connecticut (ASRC), the first exclusive Connecticut autism advocacy organization for individuals and families, will hold the 24th Annual Walk and Festival for Autism Sunday, May

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The Marine Corps League is the only congressionallychartered USMC-related veterans organization in the United States, and the world. It is primarily comprised of active-duty Marines (who don’t pay dues), honorably discharged Marines, Fleet Marine Corpsmen and Fleet Marine Chaplains.

Our main objective is to honor veterans both past and present and to help local needy veterans and their families. We also perform rifle salutes and play Taps at ceremonies for Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, Veterans Day and Memorial Day, where we march in the Southington parade.

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On occasion we help dedicate a new flag and flagpole in town. In addition, we have two partial day

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to her husband Ed, Ginny was predeceased by her brothers, Conrad Bauer, Jr., Robert Bauer and sister, Janet Dlugokinski. In lieu of flowers, donations in Ginny’s memory may be made to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. Give more of yourself in a time of sadness and hold onto many good memories of times shared. This is what she would want of all of you. To honor Ginny’s wishes, there are no calling hours but family and friends are welcome to attend a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, April 19, 2021 at St. Aloysius Church, 254 Burritt St., Plantsville. Burial will follow in Old Pine Grove Cemetery, Waterbury. Face coverings and social distancing are required at all times. A recording of the funeral services, along with an online guestbook, will be available on Ginny’s tribute page at www. PlantsvilleFuneralHome. com

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A Wolcott restaurateur is readying a food truck for a seasonal spot on MeridenWaterbury Turnpike where he’ll offer steak sandwiches, hamburgers, salads and his own relish. Marty DiVito’s request for permission to set up on his own land prompted town officials to consider rules on food trucks.

line he started with a partner in 2019, that is sold at Top’s Market. DiVito is still working on the menu but plans hot dogs, hamburgers, salads, prime rib steak sandwiches and rack of lamb chops. He’s hoping to have Marty’s food truck operating by June 1.

rant or a food truck. He plans to remain on his own land rather than moving to different locations.

“We’ve got to look at this as a permanent structure,” Hammersley said. “We can’t look at it as food truck.”

DiVito said he’s looking for permission lasting longer than the ZBA’s one-year approval. He went to the Planning and Zoning Commission for his request.

Hammersley suggested DiVito withdraw his application while the commission considered creating rules for food trucks.

Bob Hammersley, commisFood truck or sion chairman, told DiVito restaurant? that the commission really only had regulations that apNovi said the Zoning Board of Appeals had a lengthy dis- plied to brick-and-mortar cussion about whether DiVi- businesses. to’s operation was a restau-

DiVito got permission from the Zoning Board of Appeals this winter to set up his food truck for one year. Usually food trucks are looking for permission to set up at a festival or other event and board chairwoman Alicia Novi said there wasn’t really House Washed • Decks Refinished a category for what DiVitoHouse Washed • Decks Refinished D’Angelo’s was doing. D’Angelo’s

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Food truck subcommittee Christina Volpe, a planning commission member, is chairwoman of the subcommittee charged with looking at food truck rules.

“I love food trucks so I was very excited to do this,” she said. “Southington is known as a restaurant district. How can we build upon that?” Volpe plans to include other town officials and restaurant owners on the subcommittee. Lou Perillo, the town’s economic development director, said the town’s breweries have brought in food trucks to complement their drink offerings. Restaurants, howSee Food truck, A40

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Brewer plans outdoor expansion, music but owner Josh Norris said he’s still moving forward.

Witchdoctor Brewing Company is planning an expansion that includes more kitchen, a larger patio and outdoor music.

Patio liquor and outdoor acoustic music

“The most exciting part of that is we’re applying to have live music outside, live acoustic stuff,” he said. The brewery has live music indoors but shows have been few and far between lately. Norris said he’s looking to get musicians to the brewery more regularly if allowed to be outside. “I’d like to see someone here most Saturdays,” Norris said. Kitchen expansion and a new liquor permit Pandemic restrictions required breweries to serve food along with alcohol. That led Norris to partner with nearby Paul Gregory’s Restaurant to server food,

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small pizzas and quesadillas, from the Center Street location.

ever, can see food trucks as competition.

Ashley Malloy, Paul Gregory’s part-owner, said she also partnered with nearby GameCraft, a bar and arcade also in the Factory Square building, to help those businesses get through the COVID-19 restrictions.

“We want to be considerate of the brick and mortar,” Perillo said. “They obviously have a greater overhead that pays greater taxes to the town. But (food trucks) can be an entry way for a business leading into a brick and mortar.”

The brewery now has a small kitchen area but Norris is thinking of expanding it to allow food during special occasions even after the pandemicrelated food requirement is lifted.

Being a good neighbor DiVito’s property is west of Interstate 84 on MeridenWaterbury Turnpike. He’s a few lots from a plaza with several restaurants including Salsa’s Southwest Grill and Bar and South Town Apizza.

A change in state liquor permitting made Norris consider expanding the kitchen to get his restaurant liquor permit.

Having owned restaurants, DiVito said he understands the concern that a food truck will pull up nearby and sell the same food. He won’t be selling pizza or Mexican food.

The previous type of permit for a manufacturer of beer won’t be available to Witchdoctor. The brewery

“I want to stay away from that. You’ve got to respect your neighbors,” DiVito said.

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Witchdoctor is looking to expand the outdoor patio by its main entrance doors. The brewery is located in the Factory Square Building at 168 Center St.

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is now required to choose a restaurant license, which requires the facilities of a restaurant, or a craft café permit. Norris said he’s chosen the craft café permit, but that prevents him from selling any alcohol made out of state. That’s a big loss to his offerings. “We’re not going to have scotch or tequila anymore.

We’re not going to have Jameson, we’re not going to have Jack (Daniels),” Norris said. “We’ve been serving just our beer and seltzer for a little bit now.”

Josh Norris, co-owner of Witchdoctor Brewing Company, talks about the current kitchen at the 168 Center St. business on April 13. Witchdoctor Brewing Company plans an expansion.

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