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Volume 18, Number 24
Music on the Green is back By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
Music on the Green will return in July after a year off due to the pandemic. Live music in Southington downtown will start up on July 7. “We’ll be doing every Wednesday night for nine weeks up until Sept. 1,” said David Lapreay, the town’s recreation director. Music goes from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday. Thursday is the rain date every week. Music on the Green usually starts earlier in the season but Lapreay said he was waiting on pandemic restrictions lifting. There are now no limits on crowd size which was a difficult thing for recreation officials to enforce in Southington’s downtown. See Music, A2
Friday, June 11, 2021
Residents asked to conserve water By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
Residents are being asked again this year to reduce water consumption as a precautionary measure as summer begins. View of North Ridge Estates on North Ridge Court off Welch Road, June 3. Some residents of North Ridge Estates say the developer hasn’t kept his word about the golf community they were promised, which included a nine-hole course and a new clubhouse. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
Golf course delays frustrate homeowners, developer By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
A golf community on Welch Road still doesn’t have a golf course, a frustration to the residents who’ve bought homes there as well as the developer.
have been built, the golf course hasn’t been completed. Some residents of the development, North Ridge Estates, say Lovley hasn’t kept his word about the golf community they were promised. Lovley said he’s spent thousands on a lengthy permit process delayed by the pandemic.
Mark Lovley bought the former Pine Valley Golf Course in 2013. He replaced half of the course More houses with nearly 100 homes and Lovley bought several planned to rebuild the othplots of land from the forer half into a nine-hole mer golf club. He and the layout with a new clubhouse. While the homes See Golf, A4
“...We’re doing this as a cautionary measure going into the summer,” said Water Commission President Erika Pocock. Residents are being asked to voluntarily limit outside water use to every other day. Those with odd numbered addresses are asked to water lawns on odd numbered days and those with even numbered addresses should only water on even numbered days. "The Odd/Even water system also applies to washing cars, watering flowers and any other non-essen-
tial outdoor uses," Southington Water Department Assistant Superintendent Albert Fiorillo wrote in an announcement to residents. The measure will allow the water department to “conserve water supply during unusual warm weather conditions and lack of rainfall.” While surrounding towns utilize reservoirs to collect and store their water supply, Southington relies on wells throughout town. Though the request is voluntary, the department has imposed mandatory restrictions in the past. In June 2020, Water Department Superintendent William Casarella told the Record-Journal mandatory restrictions were necessary See Water, A2
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