Volume 18, Number 34
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Friday, August 20, 2021
Volpe to lead Barnes Museum
New traffic cams are online on area roads
By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
Twenty-nine new highway traffic surveillance cameras covering state highways in the Meriden area are coming online at a traffic website as part of the completion of a $24 million installation program.
By Nick Sambides Jr. Record-Journal staff
Town officials recently chose Christina Volpe as Barnes Museum curator, a post that’s been empty since last year because of the retirement of Marie Secondo and a hiring freeze during the pandemic. Volpe, a Planning and Zoning Commission member, was hired last month and is
Christina Volpe is the new curator for the Barnes Museum in Southington. Volpe was working as program director at the Amistad Center for Art & Culture in Hartford before Dave Zajac, Record-Journal See Volpe, A5 accepting the Southington position.
The new cameras open blind spots in the state’s traffic camera network on Interstates 91 and 691 and Route 15 in Cheshire, Cromwell, See Cameras, A2
Apple Harvest Festival rejects medical pot sponsor By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
A medical marijuana dispensary won’t be an Apple Harvest Festival sponsor after its application was denied by the festival committee. Fine Fettle, a dispensary with locations in Connecticut and Massachusetts, had requested a sponsorship position and booth at the
fall festival. Eric Halpern, a pharmacist and assistant manager at the company’s Newington location, said the group planned to offer information on medical marijuana and would “absolutely not” have had any marijuana at the festival. “It’s so tightly regulated. Every product has to be purchased at the dispensary by a registered patient from a pharmacist,” Halpern said.
During a meeting earlier this month, most of the festival committee voted against having Fine Fettle as a sponsor. Tom Lombardi, a Town Council Republican, voted in favor of the sponsorship. Chris Palmieri, a Town Council Democrat, abstained from the vote. Both are running for reelection.
“No” vote with little explanation Those on both sides of the Apple Harvest Festival Committee vote offered little comment on their decision. Lombardi said while he and Palmieri share the task of presenting updates to the Town Council, there See Fesitval, A4
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