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Volume 17, Number 49
Friday, December 4, 2020
Grocery stores impacted by disruption of supply chain as workers quarantine By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
As lines outside grocery stores become a common sight once more, suppliers and distributors are working around quarantines disrupting the supply chain to keep food and household supplies flowing to the shelves for holiday shoppers. “We’re in the middle of a pandemic and it's changed the supply chain drastically ... and our manufacturers
John Salerno, owner of Tops Marketplace on the Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike in Southington, shows the limited supply of organic milk in stock on Nov. 24. Suppliers and distributors are working around quarantines disrupting the supply chain to keep food and household supplies flowing to the shelves for holiday shoppers.
are doing whatever they can,” said Bill Rosa, owner of The Russell Hall Co. in Meriden. The company generally supplies plastic packaging and cleaning supplies to restaurants, delis, schools and nursing homes, but during the pandemic grocery stores have become a new clientele for paper towels and toilet paper.
Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
Though the company hasn’t See Stores, A2
Mount Southington plans to replace, expand ski school building
Karabin Farms proposal heads to Town Council By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
On Tuesday town planners approved a development rights purchase for Karabin Farms, a move that would prevent houses or other construction on the agricultural land. If the $800,000 purchase is approved by the Town Council, it’ll bring the total number of acres preserved as open space or bought outright by the town in the last
By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
Cows gather in their pen at Karabin Farms, 894 Andrews St., Southington, on Sept. 16. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
year to almost 100 acres. “It’s been a lightning round of open space See Karabin Farms, A16
Mount Southington ski area owners say a proposed new ski school will offer more space for winter and off-season activities. General Manager Jay Dougherty said Mount Southington has outgrown
the existing single-story ski school and needs more space for both on and offseason programs. The Planning and Zoning Commission must approve the new construction, but hasn’t yet taken up the proposal. Plans submitted by See Mount Southington, A9
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