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APPLE HARVEST FESTIVAL
Pie-eating featured as festival came to a close
By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
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Education officials hope to appoint a new athletic director later this month, filling the position left vacant by Greg Ferry.
Alex Thomas was skeptical that Jake Gorham could eat all that apple pie. Sophomores at Southington High School who’ve been friends their whole lives, Thomas had it on good knowledge that Gorham could be moderate in his culinary habits.
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Melody Rivera holds her own in an apple pie eating contest in front of the
“As far as I’m aware, he makes an en- main stage at the annual Apple Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 12. tire box of mac and cheese for a snack Photos by Emily J. Tilley, special to the Record-Journal. and he usually doesn't finish it,” Thomas said. He’d clearly forgotten Gorham's past victories at the apple pie-eating competition, held every year at the Southington Apple Harvest Festival. “I eat when I’m hungry, but when I get a challenge like this, I eat,” Gorham said. There were two heats in this year’s pie-eating contest, held Saturday, one for ages 11 through 17, and the other for 18 and up. The rules are simple. One pie is placed on the table per person and the first person who finishes wins. One catch. “No hands. All face. It’s a mess,” said Julie Berar-
Howie Hewitt, hired to be the Southington High School girls basketball coach earlier this year, stepped in as interim athletic director, a position he held several times at Maloney High School in Meriden. Ferry left to take a counseling job in the West Hartford school system. Brian Goralski, school board chairman, said one of Ferry’s strengths was his counseling experience and focus on student well-being in addition to athletics. “Greg brought a great connection (with student-athletes) during his time with us,” Goralski said.
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Zoni: Why set spending goals if they’re not followed? By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
A finance board member criticized her own and other boards for ignoring spending increase goals and questioned the value of setting targets for the future. The Board of Finance is setting
up workshops to discuss the upcoming fiscal year’s budget. Sue Zoni, a Democratic member running for re-election, said a board committee earlier this year set an education budget increase target that was later increased.
“If we say ‘This is what we want,’ in spending for the current fiscal year. then we vote another way, what’s the point?” Zoni said dur“The Board of Education ignored ing Wednesday’s meeting. the number,” Zoni said. Despite telling education leaders Zoni and Republican Tony Morthat the goal was a 2.5 percent rison voted against the school increase, the school budget was proposed with a 4.6 percent hike
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The next Board of Education meeting is scheduled for Oct. 24. Goralski hopes to appoint an athletic director at that meeting. Connellan said a start date hasn’t been determined, but he’s hoping it will be by Dec. 1.
“Greg Ferry left us very well prepared for the fall season,” he said.
Easy transition Hewitt said he’s worked as an interim athletic director
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Howie Hewitt, interim athletic director at Southington High School. File photo, Record-Journal
several times at Maloney after athletic directors left for other jobs. He’s also worked as an athletic director. Hewitt didn’t apply for the permanent position. “I’ve made a commitment to the girls on the basketball team, that’s how I got there,” he said. “I’m looking forward to the coaching.”
Taking over as interim athletic director has been a “relatively easy transition,” Hewitt said. He also praised the athletic staff. “They’ve got it down to a science as to who’s running this, who’s in charge,” he said.
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budget in March. Three Republicans and a Democrat on the finance board approved increasing education spending nearly 3 percent, to $98.9 million. John Leary, finance board chairman and a Republican also running for re-election, said an informal consensus was reached at a budget workshop earlier this year. By the time of the board budget vote a few days later, several Republican board members said they wanted more education spending.
“You have to be able to listen, to respond. You never know where special education is going to land,” Leary said, citing one of the most unpredictable school expenses. “None of that should preclude you from setting an expectation.” Morrison said the finance board should set expectations whether “they’re ignored or not.” “Maybe it’ll be different this time,” he said Wednesday, Oct. 9.
Zoni suspected that party pressure led to higher education spending. Leary said there’s no expectation from party leaders about Board of Finance votes and that members arrive at their own conclusions. Tentative agreements reached in workshops aren’t an official vote, Leary said. It’s common for finance board members to have conversations with education board members and school
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Not a factory School board chairman Brian Goralski said the schools are not “a factory with widgets.” Costs fluctuate, particularly in special education, where the addition of a few students can change the budget. “We are driven by costs associated with labor contracts, special education needs and services that are required by the schools,” he said. “We are always going to try our best to adhere to their guidelines but we are always focused on maintaining services that are valuable to students.”
Goralski said Zoni was “playing politics.” Goralski is stepping down this year from his position on the school board. “Sue Zoni every year wants to cut and doesn’t have a rationale for her actions,” he said. In 2014, the finance board approved a 3.4 percent increase to the school budget in a two-year deal, saying the education system would receive a 2 percent increase in 2015. In 2015, the board approved a 3 percent increase for the schools. Finance board member Joseph Labieniec
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‘Music of the Knight’ Oct. 19 The Southington Blue Knights Marching Band will host its 27th Annual Music of the Knight home show Saturday, Oct. 19 starting at 3:25 p.m. at Southington High School. The combined middle school bands will perform the national anthem at that time, and then more than 15 local bands will perform in competition. Tickets are available at the gate: $12 for adults, $7 for
Ends.” The competition took place Saturday, Oct., 5 at Cheshire’s Music in Motion event, where the BKMB scored an 86.875.
students and seniors. Concessions and merchandise are available for purchase. Parking is available with free shuttle service from DePaolo Middle School and the Calendar House. The BKMB website is SouthingtonBKMB.com.
The band is at the halfway point in its season and has earned first place at all four competitions it has participated in so far. BKMB will compete Saturday, Oct. 12, at Lyman Hall High School in Wallingford.
The Blue Knights Marching Band placed first at a recent competition with its 2019 show “Where the Sidewalk
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The Assessor’s Office is accepting applications for Veterans Exemptions through October. This exemption is income based. Limits are $36,000 for single persons and $43,900 for married couples for the Additional Veteran Benefit and $59,600 for single persons and $67,200 for married couples for our Local Veteran Bene-
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Aquinas reunion St. Thomas Aquinas High School, New Britain Class of 1969 has scheduled its 50th class reunion for Saturday, Oct. 19. For more information, contact Mary Kathryn LaRose at 860-828-1012, or 802-236-8753.
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SOUTHINGTON — A fight at Tavern 42 in Plantsville led to three arrests this past weekend. Police issued a statement on the incident Tuesday. It started as a verbal dispute among members of a large party seated in the restaurant. A man police have yet to identify punched Hiran Sepulveda, 36, of Berlin, in
the face, causing multiple people including Raul Maldonado, 36, of Meriden, to get involved in pushing each other. Security video from the restaurant shows the unidentified man fleeing out the back door of the restaurant with a woman. After the initial disturbance, Maldonado took a plate from the table and swung it at the head of Marcus Jones, 32, of Hartford, police said.
There were no serious injuries.
Maldonado, Jones and Sepulveda were each charged with second degree breach of peace. Sepulveda was also charged with interfering with an officer. Maldonado and Jones were released on $2,500 bond. Sepulveda was released on $5,000 bond. All three are due in New Britain Superior Court on Oct. 28.
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I won’t be going to the Haunted Graveyard at Lake Compounce this year. Not because it’s not great – I’m sure it’s awesome. The problem is my overactive imagination and I’ve finally learned my limits. Years ago, Compounce had what I’d call a second tier haunted house in addition to the big featured one on the hillside. The second tier came free with admission while the big one was extra. Even back then, I knew I couldn’t handle the hill -- but how scary could the freebie be?
The second tier set up was basic – clowns, mirrors, strobe lights in some kind of Butler building – oh, and raucous music. Five seconds in -- full panic -- a lot of screaming, that much I remember. So much screaming, in fact, that two thirds of the way through, the lights came on and an attendant was asking me, Are you all right lady?
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The dungeon was a shed, maybe 20 feet long, nice looking from the outside. I was a little nervous but it was cool. A few thumps, gasps and such came from inside the building, but everyone came out the other side in one piece.
Palmieri also suggested the possibility of adding After that debacle, it was solar panels to the buildtime to downsize my haunting's roof, in addition to ed house experiences and so a larger roof replacethe next year, I decided to ment. check out Cortland Hull’s Witches Dungeon exhibit/ Built to last 20 years, the haunted house when he roof has outlasted its inused to have it at his house tended lifespan. in Bristol. (It’s now a season- I entered the shed. Maybe At the time the roof real display at the Bristol Hisfive feet in, just around the placement was initially torical Society.) first corner, a hatch in the proposed, school district ceiling slid open and a furry officials noted that the This exhibit was mainly a hand dropped down. One roof had been springing bunch of movie props, inch from my nose. A real some leaks and cauposters, masks and other hand, waggling. Well, the tioned they could bememorabilia from Hollyscreaming began and, sure come more frequent. wood horror classics – plus a enough, it was me. few surprises. How scary During Tuesday’s meetcould that be? Somehow a wave of humaniing, the council also ty propelled this hysterical heard a presentation reThe place got crowded in howler forward through the garding proposed safety the days leading up to Halmaze and out the exit where improvements, including loween. Hull got a lot of I observed the line was now new traffic signals, sigpublicity from local full of terrified little kids nage Basement Waterproofing Services s e c i v r e S g n i f o o r p r e t a W t nemesaBand crosswalks, in news. Moms, dads and tons clinging to their parents. “Do Plantsville, Over 36 Years combined experience. . e c n e i r e p x e d e n i b m o c s r a e Y 63 revO and proposed of kids and of course gaggles you think we should go in tax abatements for town Fully Transferable Written Guarantee*, Sump Pumps, , s p m u P p m u S , * e e t n a r a u G n e t t i r W e l barefsnarT ylluF of teens were all in line. residents and property Pumps Eliminated in most homes. See Seen and.semHeard, oh tsom A9 ni detanimilowners E spmuP who meet certain Deal Direct with owner - no middle man. .nam elddim on - renwo htiwincome tceriD laeDlevels.
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Party City on Queen Street to close next year
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Large signs with an orange background and yellow and black lettering, screaming, “Nothing held back” and offering discounts of 10% to 30% on merchandise currently fill the windows of the Party City store at 750 Queen St.
there, Daddy?” The next Halloween, it was time to scale back even more. How about a haunted candlelight tour of the Stanley Whitman House? That’s a colonial house museum in Farmington and actors, mostly local students, would recreate tales of yore with a little bit of a ghostly spin. Sounded safe to me – I mean, after all, a museum -pffft. The tour crept up a narrow twisting staircase, a candle flame cast jittery shadows over the cracked plaster walls. We entered a dark bedroom. Was that a human form lurking in the corner by the spinning wheel? I jumped but kept quiet. Nothing there.
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Inside the store, Halloween-themed merchandise — including masks, witch hats, ghost costumes and other items — fill several aisles, along with other party-themed plates, cups and other festive accessories. Store employees, wearing orange t-shirts, stocked racks and shelves and stood in checkout lanes. The store, nestled in a plaza between Petco and H & R Block, with a ShopRite Grocery store a few doors down, is among more than four dozen Party City stores nationwide slated for closure over the coming months.
Signs in the storefront windows of Party City, located at 750 Queen St., announce a sale on items in the store are on mark down. The Southington location is one of dozens of Party City locations nationwide slated for closure. Michael Gagne, Record-Journal
According to Party City’s website, the company currently operates more than 900 company-owned and franchise stores throughout North America.
The Southington store manager declined to speak with a reporter. But the company later issued an emailed statement, explaining the Queen See Party City, A10
The bed, all dressed in white, had two lumps in it. One of the lumps abruptly sat up, a girl, she began to speak. Someone let out a bloodcurdling scream. Oh, that was me. The poor girl in the bed forgot her lines, the other girl sat up to see what was going on. The tour collectively gasped. Then people began to laugh. The first girl resumed her play acting, but was clearly off stride. The guide led us downstairs. “Well, that was exciting,” she said, “that never happened before.” She tersely indicated we should help ourselves to mulled cider. This year, I will avoid any sort of haunted anything. My plan is to stay home and watch Casper, the Friendly Ghost — with the lights on. And hope for the best. Do you have a story to tell? Send your idea to news@thesouthingtoncitizen.com
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The Southington Drive-In will once again be open for family-friendly spooks, thrills and fun this Halloween season. On Saturday, Oct. 26, the drive-in will host its annual Halloween Festival — an event that will include a haunted hay ride, petting zoo, face-painting, pony rides and more. The festivities at the drivein, located on Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike, will start at 2 p.m.
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store fronts. “Southington is very fortunate.”
Joseph J. DeMaio, chief financial officer of FarmingStreet location would remain ton-based Cornerstone open over the next several Properties, Inc., which owns months and is not slated to the plaza where Party City is permanently close until the located, said his company end of February 2020. just recently found out about the expected closure. “Party City routinely evaluates our portfolio of stores in “We don’t have anybody that response to ongoing conis committed to the space sumer, market and econom- yet,” DeMaio said, adding ic changes that naturally that Party City has a little arise in the business,” the less than a year left on its statement read. It added lease for the store. The store customers in the area “will was previously an iParty still be able to find the prod- store, until Party City had ucts they love” at other Party acquired it. City stores in Waterbury, “We will be collecting the Newington and Simsbury, rent,” he said. and online at the store’s website, partycity.com. “It’s in a very desirable area,” Louis Perillo, director of eco- DeMaio said of the Southington market. “ But it’s alnomic development for ways process to find a new Southington, said despite tenant and make a new the store’s upcoming clodeal…. We will start our prosure, retail is still a thriving cess of marketing it.” industry in town.
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The event was planned by the four-person Southington Drive-In Committee, explained committee leader Dawn Miceli.
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“Coco” will be shown a little after 6 p.m. That movie will be followed by a showing of the 1976 horror movie classic “Carrie.”
“We don’t have much in the way of vacancies,” Perillo said, referring to existing
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Plan for hotel off Interstate 84 withdrawn
Jaymin Mehta, of Canton, had hoped to build a fivestory “micro-hotel” with 80 rooms on the 1-acre site at 17 West St. The proposed building was two stories higher than allowed in the area, and Zoning Board of Appeals members told Mehta’s, representative Sev Bovino, that they were struggling to find a reason to grant an exception. The application was withdrawn after the meeting late last month, according to Town Planner Rob Philips. Bovino said Mehta is working on a hotel design that might better fit the site. “They’re trying to make it work as a micro-hotel,” Bovino said. Since his coming to town 50 years ago, the property has always been a vacant lot. “It is a difficult project to make work.” Neighbors who came out in
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chines.” For families from town, the cost of admission is $20 per carload. For non-residents, the cost is $25 per car. The cost for people walking in is $5 per person. Dave Zoni, a member of the committee, described the festival as a great inexpensive activity for families. “It’s a good family event,” he said, adding he stays involved because he enjoys keeping the concept of a drive-in movie theater alive in Southington. “It’s a unique experience,”
Michelle Ryan, a West Main Street resident just east of the property, was relieved to hear the hotel as proposed wouldn’t be going up. “I didn’t know how they were going to get 80 rooms there,” she said Friday. “Being so high, they can look right into everyone’s backyard.”
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Ryan’s house is separated from the corner lot by a small creek and some trees. The land has been used for parking, she said, which several years ago included noisy refrigerated tractor-trailer trucks that ran through the night.
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With a hotel, Ryan was anticipating more noise, traffic, lights and other disruption. Now she’s wondering what might be proposed next for the adjacent property. Philips said the property is zoned industrial, which can include factories, hotels and other businesses.
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A motorist travels on West Street next to a vacant lot in Southington. Developers withdrew an application for a fivestory hotel at 17 West St.
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Zoni said. “There are not a lot of drive-ins left. It’s something I have a personal connection to. My parents used to take me when I was a child.” Hundreds are expected to attend the festival, which requires a large number of volunteers to pull off. Miceli said she expects more than 75 volunteers, all of them from civic clubs and nonprofit organizations that will benefit from the proceeds raised by the event. “All the money does go back to charity, to those organizations,” Miceli said. “It’s just a feel good day, something to do before the winter comes.” mgagne@record-journal.com 203-317-2231 Twitter:@MikeGagneRJ
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posed by the regulations. Lou Perillo, the town’s economic development coordinator, wrote a letter in support of the hotel and its economic benefits to the town’s tax base. Even if the zoning board had approved the extra stories, the building was still closer to property lines than allowed by zoning regulations. Philips said the developers hadn’t requested those variances before withdrawing the application. “Apparently they got the message that that wasn’t going to be something that was going to be looked upon favorably,” he said. The zoning board didn’t vote on Mehta’s request last month and will accept the withdrawal at its next meeting. jbuchanan@record-journal.com 203-317-2230 Twitter: @JBuchananRJ
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dinelli, assistant festival coordinator. Berardinelli said the pie-eating contest continues to be a highlight among the crafts, food, and carnival rides. Perhaps a little bit of nostalgia has something to do with it, she said.
A little before 12:30 p.m., the nine competitors took their places in front of the main stage near the Town Green. The crowd began to gather and by the time faces were plunged into pies, there were almost 100 people watching with a mix of incredulity and admiration. They might not want to do it themselves, but viewing other people do it is an entirely different matter. “I’d rather bob for apples,” said Fran DeSimone, a Washington Depot resident who heard about the festival on television news and decided to check it out. There was a brief pause while proper pie-eating music was procured. Seventies game show-sounding music chimed in the air as the kids settled around the redsheeted folding table. Rosemary Paul, DeSimone’s friend from Roxbury, was asked if she would ever enter a competitive eating contest. “We are not good sports,” said DeSimone. “Even when we were younger, I wouldn’t have done it,” Paul said. For his part, Gorham had a clear technique. He attacked the pie, standing up and leaning forward, hands clasped behind him, chomping for all he was worth. The others were a little more tentative, perhaps daunted by
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A crowd of children laugh and interact with The Amazing Andy during his magic act on the main stage at the annual Apple Harvest Festival on Saturday.
the enormity of what they had agreed to do. “He has to eat the crust and all?” DeSimone said. “He’s a pro, that one. Now he’s eating off the table. Look at him,” Paul said. “He’s almost done.”
‘In it to win it’ But steadily, without the histrionics, another competitor was coming into play. Alexandra Carabetta, a junior at Southington High, was making good progress. As Gorham hoovered up the crust, Carabetta looked up, a little under duress. With a glazed look in her eye, she turned away from the table and barfed behind her chair. She took a moment, caught her breath, and dove back in. Victory beckoned. “Normally, I like to savor my food, but at that moment I was in it to win it,” said Carabetta after the contest.
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loudspeakers. With a steady burst, Carabetta finished her pie in about six minutes or so, but no one was keeping count. To the untrained observer, Gorham’s pie aggression spread the filling on the table, ultimately slowing him down. Despite her unfortunate projection, Carabetta ate a more controlled pie.
“Maybe for a year,” she said. After prizes were given and photos taken, Berardinelli cleaned up the pie tins and checked her list for the upcoming 18-and-over compe-
The crowd disbanded after the kids’ contest. The adults were up next, but not as many people were interested. “After all this, would you eat another apple pie?” DeSimone said.
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Fasano miffed about UConn president’s free tuition plan
He’s also miffed he wasn’t consulted first.
Fasano, R-North Haven, said he found it “a little bit out of the norm for a new president” to commit to a free tuition program without
reaching out to legislators. Wednesday, Fasano released a copy of the letter he sent to Katsouleas asking for details about the proposal. “Maybe he reached out to everyone but me,” Fasano said, “but not reaching out to the Senate Minority leader saying, ‘Hey, this is what I’m thinking, this is how I plan to pay for it,’ to go out there and say it’s free. I doubt UConn professors are going to teach courses for free. “You’re a new president, you owe a certain amount of responsibility to the fiduciary not to play to the politics … of saying free, free, free.” Fasano’s letter to Katsouleas, who started his job at the university on Aug. 1, asks what the cost of the program will be and how UConn will pay for it. “While UConn’s spokesperson has indicated that these costs are not clear yet, I cannot imagine you would announce these plans if you were not certain UConn could afford these new expenses,” Fasano wrote. “Second, I would like to know how you plan to pay for these initiatives. Will the UConn Foundation be cov-
ering these new costs? I understand that some UConn Foundation funds are already designated to be spent for specific purposes. I would like to know how much funding the UConn Foundation has in total and what all funds have been designated for.”
In a statement released Oct. 9 a spokesman for UConn said the plan was “foreshadowed” on multiple occasions by Katsouleas – in meetings with lawmakers and in interviews with the media.
“President Katsouleas foreshadowed the plan in a number of places before it Fasano’s letter also asks Kat- was announced; he’s been souleas whether he plans to meeting with members of the General Assembly in increase tuition and other groups, by delegation, for fees at the school over the the past several weeks and next two to five years, and whether UConn will be seek- outlined the plan at a high ing additional state funding. level in those discussions,” said Michael Enright, a Fasano said he is concerned spokesman for the universithat tuition might have to ty. continue to go up to cover “UConn has no plans to seek the cost of the program. additional dollars in its state “Over the last six years, appropriation to fund it,” Enwe’ve gone up on tuition for right said. “Rather, UConn is kids,” he said. “So, you know, funding it at the outset by is that what we’re going to reallocating money within do? Go up on [some] kids to support other kids? See UConn, A20 He added, “UConn just cried broke. We had to give them — the Democrats did — give them more money because they couldn’t afford the fringe [benefits], so how are we affording free college? It’s so easy to stand out there and say free, free, free, but how are you going to pay for this?”
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Katsouleas revealed the free tuition proposal during his inauguration in Storrs on Friday, Oct. 4. The university released details about how the program would work late Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 9.
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MICHAEL BARBERINO
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Heading into this year’s Wallingford cross country meet, Sheehan coach Frank Mohr remarked that Michael Barberino would be a runner to watch. Good call. After coming on strong as a junior at the end of 2018, Barberino has blossomed as a senior in 2019, and on Oct. 4 he won his first varsity race to lead the Titans to victory over rival Lyman Hall. Barberino blazed a 16:54 over the 3.1-mile course at Wharton Brook, edging teammate Ethan Venoit by 2 seconds.
Grace Keaveney carved her name into the Cheshire field hockey scoring archives last week. And once she did, the senior got busy. Keaveney notched her first varsity goal in Friday’s 8-0 win at North Haven. She also set up two other goals. Then, on Saturday, Keaveney had Cheshire’s lone goal in a 2-1 loss at Norwalk. All told, Keaveney has two goals and three assists for the Rams, who topped Lyman Hall 7-0 on Monday afternoon to improve to 7-5.
DILLON KOHL
MORGAN KICKLIGHTER
Watch Dillon Kohl run and it becomes quickly apparent: He’s got speed, he’s got vision and he’s got balance. For a second straight week, the Southington senior running back put all three into play and rushed for more than 200 yards. Following up on a 219-yard game at Hall, Kohl collected 247 yards and three touchdowns in last Friday’s 44-6 home win over Manchester, including a 76-yard breakaway. Kohl now has 768 yards and 10 TDs for the 4-1 Blue Knights.
Junior Morgan Kicklighter is losing none of her kick for the Maloney cross country team. Last Friday, for the third straight year, Kicklighter won the girls race at the Meriden City Championships. She covered the 3.1-mile course at Hubbard Park in 22:28, one second faster than her winning time a year ago. Runner-up this year was Kicklighter’s Maloney teammate Savannah Vasquez (22:56) as the Spartans swept Platt and Wilcox Tech to take the team title.
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Platt running back Roberto Salas is fast closing in on his second straight 1,000-yard season. After his 264yard performance Saturday in Newington, the junior now has 938 yards at the midpoint of the year. The 264 yards were his single-game high for the season, though Salas did put up 216 at Wethersfield and 203 at Notre Dame-West Haven. Those were losses. With Salas scoring 3 TDs in Newington, the Panthers, now 3-2, posted a critical 35-33 victory.
The Lyman Hall swim team has a nice pipeline of talent flowing. Every year, it seems, a stellar freshman joins a troupe of proven upper classmen. A year ago, it was Caroline Krawec. This year, it’s Elise Richardson, who has won 10 individual events and been part of 11 first-place relays. Primarily a sprinter, Richardson has taken three 50-yard freestyles and four 100s. She has also stretched out, winning races in the 100 butterfly, 200 IM and 500 free.
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adding that it expects between 900 and 1,400 students per class to come from families with household incomes of $50,000 or less.
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the university’s existing budget to our financial aid budget.”
Of these students, about 75% already receive awards that cover tuition, and in some cases, more than tuition. The remaining 25% of students will receive supple-
The program is estimated to cost about $1 million per class that enrolls at the school, the university said,
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mental financial aid awards to bring the level of commitment to the amount of tuition.
tiative will have no impact on the tuition paid by other students, or their financial aid packages, he said.
While the UConn Foundation raises money to pay for the program, the Connecticut Commitment will be funded via need-based institutional aid.
At his recent inauguration Katsouleas said research shows that a majority of Americans in some demographics see a top tier institution as “not for them, as for the elite and even a scam.”
The university will also aggressively work to raise private philanthropic dollars that will help support the cost of the plan going forward, Enright said. The ini-
chance to enroll. “Higher education is under unprecedented pressure to transform itself,” Katsouleas said. “Although data continue to support the strong correlation between more education and more opportunity, namely higher employment rates, and lifetime earnings, increasingly this is not the narrative experienced by a large portion of middle America.”
He said he wants to reach out to those students who think they can’t afford UConn and give them a
Another key Republican lawmaker, House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, RDerby, also has concerns about how the school will pay for the program.
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U.S. POSTAL SERVICE STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION PS Form 3526-R (Requester Publications Only) 1. PUBLICATION TITLE, THE SOUTHINGTON CITIZEN 2. PUBLICATION NO., 023-115 3. FILING DATE, October October 8, 1,2019 2014 4. ISSUE FREQUENCY, Weekly. 5. NO. OF ISSUES PUBLISHED ANNUALLY, 52 6. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, None 7. COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS OF KNOWN OFFICE OF PUBLICATION, 11 Street, 500Crown S. Broad St. Meriden, CT 06450-0915 (County of New Haven) Contact Person, David Pare, Telephone 203-317-2407. 8. COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS OF HEADQUARTERS OR GENERAL BUSINESS OFFICE OF PUBLISHER, 11 Street, 500Crown S. Broad St. Meriden, CT 06450-0915 9. FULL NAMES AND COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESSES OF PUBLISHER, EDITOR AND MANAGING EDITOR: PUBLISHER: Eliot C. White, 500 11 Crown Eliot Carroll, C. White, 11S.Crown S. Broad St., St. Meriden, CT 06450. EDITOR: Nick 500 Broad St., St. Meriden, CT 06450. MANAGING EDITOR: Olivia Lawrence, 11 Crown St., Meriden, CT 06450. 10. OWNER: The Record-Journal Publishing Co., 11 Crown Street, Meriden, CT 06450. Stockholders owning or holding one percent or 10. more: OWNER: The Publishing Co., Berlin, 500 S. Broad Street, Meriden, CT 06450. Stockholders owning or holding percent or Eliot C. Record-Journal White, 15 Canoe Birch Court, CT 06037, Leslie H. White, 250 East Main Street #8, Meriden, CTone 06450, Susan W. White, Court, Berlin, 06037, Elizabeth White, Milici Circle, Meriden, CTCheshire, 06450, Melinda Parisi, 40 Runge more: Eliot15C.Canoe White,Birch 235 Richmond Glen,CT Cheshire, CT 06410,B.Susan W.70 White, 235 Richmond Glen, CT 06410, Elizabeth B. Drive, CTCourt, 06451,Cheshire, Harkil &CT Co., Webster 123 Bank Street, Waterbury, CT 06702, of First Baptist White,Meriden, 665 Ashley 06410, FirstTrust, Baptist Church, 460 Broad Street, Meriden, CTA/C 06450, Sarah WhiteChurch, Rogers,A/C 2150of MidState Medical Center, Alison W. Muschinsky, 106 Olympus Parkway, Middletown, CT 06457, Bodin Muschinsky, 120 Robin Circle, Indian Creek Blvd East B321, Vero Beach AllanVernon, H. Church, 20 BuckSarah Hill Lane, Ridge, NY 10576, YMCA, 110FL West Tolland, CT 06084, Evon Muschinsky, P.O.32966, Box 476, CT 06066, WhitePond Rogers, 1776 Cedar Lane, Vero Inc., Beach, 32963, Allan 29672 Zuma Way, Malibu, CA 90265, Allan H.Brook Church, Buck Hill Lane, Pond Ridge, NY 10576, YMCA, Inc., 110 Main White, Street, Meriden, CT Bay 06450, Michael F. Killian, 56 Hamlin Pass,20Southington, CT06489 W. Main St., Meriden, CT 06450, Michael F. Killian, 56 Hamlin Brook Path, Southington, CT 06489. 11. KNOWN BONDHOLDERS, MORTGAGEES, AND OTHER SECURITY HOLDERS OWNING OR HOLDING 1 PERCENT OR MORE OF TOTAL AMOUNT OF BONDS, MORTGAGES OR OTHER SECURITIES. If none, check box � None. ❑ 12. Tax Status (For completion by nonprofit organizations authorized to mail at nonprofit rates) (Check One) The purpose, function, and nonprofit status of this organization and the exempt status for federal income tax purposes ❑ HAS NOT CHANGED DURING PRECEDING 12 MONTHS ❑ HAS CHANGED DURING PRECEDING 12 MONTHS (Publisher must submit explanation of change with this statement) 13. PUBLICATION NAME, The Southington Citizen 14. ISSUE DATE FOR CIRCULATION DATA, Sept. 5, 2014 September 27, 2019
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