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BOS mulls using ARPA funds for culvert project

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The Durham Lions attended the Durham Animal Response Team’s monthly meeting on Dec. 7, where they presented a donation of a Milwaukee 18 volt Surge Impact and Hammer Drill Combo Kit. DART provides support in the event of an evacuation or natural disaster to mobilize and to assist animals and First Responders when animals are involved in an emergency situation. They have responded to both local and statewide emergencies. DART also sponsors an annual rabies clinic for local pets each year. The Durham Lions recognize the efforts and volunteerism provided by DART and thank them for their service to the community. Above, Richard Pasieka (President — Durham Lions) and Luke Backus present the gift to Brenda Eddy of DART. Photo by Durham Lion Rob Proctor

DOT planning warning signs to curb fatal crashes By Peter Prohaska Special to The Times

signs” on curvy local roads around the state. The first phase of this proIn a bid to improve overall gram is underway, with safety and cut down on fa- the DOT accepting public tal automobile crashes, comments through Dec. the Connecticut Depart19. ment of Transportation is Per the DOT’s official nopreparing to install new “horizontal curve warning tice, the project will be

limited to installing postmounted sheet aluminum signs on posts driven into the ground. No excavation or earthwork is anticipated as part of this project, which is focused on 220 roads out of roughly 480 See Safety, A8

had $19,000 in unencumbered, or unallocated, ARPA funds, but also noted the town could make specific transfers.

After a project to replace a culvert on Lake Shore Drive went over budget by $29,509, He noted, for example, the the Board of Selectmen are town allotted $25,000 to the looking for options to plug Parks and Recreation Dethe budget hole. partment for a basketball Selectmen didn’t make a de- court. cision during their Dec. 4 meeting, but discussed real- Selectman James Irish noted the department also has locating some American $20,000 in its capital imRescue Plan Act funding from other projects and pro- provement budget and questioned if the additional grams. $25,000 is needed. The board could make a decision at its Dec. 18 meeting. Yamartino also noted the Giving Garden has plans for First Selectman Robert Ya$7,000 of the $10,000 it remartino told the board that ceived, leaving $3,000 availactual construction on the able. culvert along Lake Shore Selectwoman Carol Bufithis, Drive came in under price. Other costs, including land- meanwhile, suggested taking $3,000 of the $5,000 allotted scaping and engineering, to the Common Ground pushed the total cost over, grant program. though. The town received $128,205 in state aid for the project while contributing $52,904. Yamartino said the town still

“If you want this money right now, then I would say take it,” she said. See Culvert, A7

Pictured is an assortment of warning signs used by the state DOT on curvy local roads to help motorists avoid crashes. Submitted photo

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add insult to injury it started to rain. “Good for the well, good for the garden,” announced my boy. You gotta love it. He had an inquisitive mind. The world and everything in it just seemed to fascinate him. He would take all of his toys apart, and when I asked him why he did that, he said that he wanted to see how things work. That made sense to me.

He made a tape of my favorite song, “You take my breath away,” which I could play over and over. Which I did.

pranced around the house the night before with his backpack on, chanting, “I’m a school boy. I’m a school boy.” (He did not always, in future years, love that fact so much.) He was brave. On the first day he immediately found a friend and did not even glance over his shoulder at me as he and the other kids were ushered into the

He loved it when we did pick-your-own at Lyman Orchards. He made himself right at home. For blueberry Jordan arrived in this world picking he would lie on his happy. All smiles and laughback under the bush and ing and giggling. Like he clean that bush out. When knew a secret that none of we were in the strawberry us were privy to. I would patch he would wander look at him and I would He was innovative and credown the row and come think, ative. When he was four he back with strawberry juice “Yeah, he’s on to something. made a mobile for me. It all over his face. He was Life is meant to be enjoyed, had signs on it, and a remote more strawberry than boy. just like that.” control, so that when he When it was time for him to pushed the button it spun He always came down on around, treating me to won- go to kindergarten he the right side of things, not derful messages like, “Yo letting much throw him off are the best Mom,” or “I love track. Like when he was a lit- you so much.” Be still, my tle shaver and he and his heart. brother and I were out trickor-treating and the car just He could assemble or fix went belly-up and we h anything. It was one of his to walk home, and I was be- super powers. I could do yond upset, but not my boy. neither of those things, so I He merrily chirped about would just wait for Jordan to the lovely full moon that do it. I was always in awe of was\ guiding us home. that ability, since I barely know which end of the hamOr the time we were at the mer to use. beach-he was three at the time-and his brother and I I used to love to read by our were bobbing around in the stream, so to make the expemost glorious waves, and he rience even better he found FACEBOOK.COM/ was standing on the shore a sheet of plywood that he RECORDJOURNAL saying he wanted to go threw over it. Then he put NEWSPAPER home-and I’m not proud of my chair and table on that this – but I kept saying I was plywood so that I could sit coming, but I kept not com- there and read with the waTWITTER.COM/ ing because I just could not ter rushing all around me. RECORD_JOURNAL miss the next wave. So Jordan, in utter frustration, threw the car keys into the INSTAGRAM.COM/ water. We looked and looked for them, to no avail. And to

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DeLauro proposes law to help tenants facing eviction By Ginny Monk © The Connecticut Mirror

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New federal legislation would allow wide-scale expansion of a right-to-counsel program for people facing evictions, building on programs already started in a handful of states including Connecticut. The Eviction Prevention Act, introduced by Democrats Rep. Rosa DeLauro, 3rd District, and Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, would create a new grant program so that state and local governments can hire attorneys to represent tenants with incomes under 125% of the federal poverty level. DeLauro’s office sent out an announcement about the bill Monday. The members of Congress introduced the bill during a time when evictions have been in the spotlight nation-

So far this year, there have been more than 19,200 evictions filed in Connecticut, slightly less than the 2022 totals but still more than 2019. Last year saw the highest number of filings since at least 2017, the earliest year with available data.

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Connecticut’s right to counsel program launched about two years ago for low-income renters in certain ZIP codes and veterans statewide. It’s a collaboration of several legal aid groups across the state. The state was the third to launch a right-to-counsel program and used $20 million in COVID-19 relief money. Officials have said they expect those funds to last until next year.

The report also found that the legal aid program likely saved Connecticut millions it would have otherwise spent on services such as emergency shelters, child welfare or health resources.

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He told the selectmen he would review the options and possibly make a recommendation at the Dec. 19 meeting.

pitch, and evictions have risen above pre-pandemic levels,” said Shamus Roller, executive director of the National Housing Law Project. “As renters navigate this dangerous market, they increasingly face rent gauging, significant rent burden, and frequent and unjust evictions. And they are taking on these challenges without adequate representation in housing court.”

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Wethersfield, Willington, and Windsor. These 19 towns voluntarily participated in providing input to the DOT. Officials explained that the projected cost of the program is $575,000, which will be paid for entirely by federal funding. DOT Project Engineer Claire Sylvestre led a Dec. 5 public information session, walking through a detailed explana-

tion of DOT's reasoning for what she called a “low-cost countermeasure with quick installation.” While crash locations change from year to year, areas that show concentrations of crashes were evident in the DOT’s study. An analysis by DOT engineers yielded some interesting data that was cause for concern, Sylvestre said. Per state-wide statistics gathered from Jan. 1, 2020 through Dec. 31, 2022, there were 287,299 crashes in Connecticut, of which 34,129 (about 12%) occurred on curves. Of the 71,888 crashes that resulted in injury or fatality, 9,659 (again, about 12%) were on curved roads. Of 901 fatal crashes, however, 284 took place on curves (32%). “Looking at these numbers, it’s clear that curves are a prime location for crashes,” stated Sylvestre. “We can improve driver awareness and response to curves through warning signs,” she added. The DOT relied partially on the University of Connecticut’s Crash Data Repository to make its determinations. The CTCDR is an online, publicly-accessible resource that is updated daily with in-

formation from local and state police reports. As the site itself explains, the CTCDR “allows for complex queries of both datasets such as, by date, route, route class, collision type, injury severity, etc. For further analysis, this data can be summarized by user-defined categories to help identify trends or patterns in the crash data.” The use of signs is a “proven safety countermeasure," according to the Federal Highway Administration, Sylvestre noted. “Numerous studies have concluded that by installing arrows, chevrons, and curve warning signs, crashes can be reduced anywhere from 30 to 50%.” In addition to the historic data provided by CTCDR, Sylvestre highlighted a “proactive approach” to preventing future crashes. These additional factors included “advisory speed,” meaning the "recommended speed a vehicle should travel to successfully navigate a curve,” as well as “the presence of an intersection and whether the curve was on a hill.” Existing signs that meet DOT's design recommendations would simply be replaced.

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“Perhaps most importantly,” Sylvestre mentioned, “the curve study identified road segments where warning signs were not warranted.” One reason for this, she said, “was so that drivers have a consistent expectation of what a warning sign means and won't ignore warning signs.” Some of the local roads that are under consideration for participation in the program include: n Cheshire – Marion Road,

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A federal grand jury investigating the state police ticket scandal has issued a subpoena to the agency seeking records of motor vehicle stops by hundreds of troopers going back to January 2014. The subpoena, issued in late October, ordered the state to produce the documents by November 14 to a federal grand jury that has been

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lished a report detailing how they were unable to corrobThe federal investigation is orate 25,966 traffic stops being run by the U.S. Desubmitted to the racial propartment of Transportation’s filing database, while indiOffice of Inspector General cating that the number of in Woburn, Mass., and the falsified records could exU.S. Department of Justice’s ceed 58,000. They found that Public Integrity Unit in the fake records reflected Washington DC. more infractions for white It was the second subpoena drivers and fewer for Black and Hispanic motorists. issued; the first subpoena, issued in September, was The report outlined how the more general, seeking data falsifications by state troopthe agency submitted to the ers and constables comproConnecticut Racial Profiling mised the accuracy of racial Project, the group that disprofiling data, which the covered the alleged phony state collects annually. It altickets submitted by a group so acknowledged that invesof officers from one state po- tigating the motives for the lice barracks in 2018. fabrications was not part of The new subpoena seeks 28 separate data fields for each traffic stop, including the officer’s identification number, the race and ethnicity of the motorist who was stopped, the location of the stop, and the citation that was issued. In June, state auditors pub-

on the nature of the inquiry or whom it involved. Griffin’s office stepped aside over the summer when federal officials indicated they wanted to investigate since the state received money from the U.S. Department of Transportation to enforce speed limits on federal highways. Last summer, Hearst Connecticut Media Group revealed how, in 2018, four state troopers had fabricated hundreds of traffic stop tickets to obtain better assignments, pay increases, promotions and specialty vehicles.

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Earlier this month, the state police released an update on After the audit’s release, Chief State’s Attorney Patrick their ongoing internal affairs investigation that indicated Griffin’s office said it was they had cleared 26 officers launching an investigation of wrongdoing. into “the information received recently through the The four-page memo signed academic report” but deby new State Police Col. clined to comment further Daniel Laughman said that a

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team of five troopers were in the process of investigating 130 of their current and former colleagues who had the greatest number of ticket discrepancies, according to the audit. The 26 exonerated officers comprised 18 active troopers, three constables and five retired troopers. “The primary source of the discrepancies resided with paper tickets. In the majority, the source of these discrepancies rested with badge number errors and age discrepancies. Badge number errors result from badge numbers transcribed at CIB incorrectly, likely due to legibility issues, or that were missing from the record visible to end users,” Laughman wrote. This story originally appeared on the website of The Connecticut Mirror, www.ctmirror.org.

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