Volume 18, Number 23
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Welch Road houses planned
Hundreds attend first Pride festival By Faith Williams Record-Journal staff
By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
Jo Wagner, 19, and Emelia Pettit, 18, said they were proud to see their hometown support them and others like them in a way that had never been done before.
Local developer Mark Lovley is looking to add a half-dozen homes to Welch Road while he waits for market changes that will allow construction to begin on the North Ridge golf course.
“It’s so cool. It’s so awesome,” said Pettit. “You don’t see this in other towns, you mostly see it in cities. It’s the first sign I’ve ever seen that there might be change.” Southington hosted its first Youth/ Family PRIDE Festival at YMCA Camp Sloper on Saturday, part of a See Pride, A2
Friday, June 4, 2021
Isabella Hawley, of Southington, shows off her temporary hand tattoo during Southington’s Youth/Family PRIDE Festival on Saturday at YMCA Camp Sloper. Faith Williams, Record Journal
Lovley built the North Ridge Estates subdivision, nearly 100 homes on part of the former Pine Valley Golf Course property. He’s looking for town approval to add See Welch Road, A4
Pet owners honor beloved veterinarian with plaque By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
Plainville, died in January at the age of 63.
Pet owners honored a local veterinarian with a granite plaque near the town’s dog park. Toby Kimm, a veterinarian who opened Ragged Mountain Animal Hospital in
Owners of the animals he’s helped over the decades planned to gather near the dog park Saturday to install the granite plaque with his likeness on it.
In addition to being a skilled veterinarian, pet owners said Kimm, a Southington resident, was a kind and generous man who would do anything for his clients “It’s like losing a member of our family,” Mary Sargent said of his
death. She’s a dog owner and along with Heide Kapral and others organized the tribute. “Hundreds and hundreds of people feel the same way.” See Veterinarian, A6
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