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Activists call for rebel flag ban By Nick Sambides Jr. Record-Journal staff
DURHAM — A local activist group is calling on the state’s largest agricultural fair to ban the sale or display of Confederate flags, calling it “a symbol to intimidate and promote a hate agenda.” The Middlefield-Durham Racial Justice Team wants the Durham Fair to ban displays of the rebel flag and other Confederate memorabilia by vendors, performers and exhibitors at the Durham Fair — not necessarily those attending the fair, which runs this year from Sept. 23-26. The team’s public letter, issued via its social media homepage on Jan. 12, represents an increase in pressure upon the fair since flag sales and appearances at the fair began commanding attention five years ago.
Students pictured with bags of litter they collected around campus. Penny Wickwire said the mess was “shocking.”
CRHS campus clean-up complete By Bronwyn Commins Special to Town Times
As we celebrate presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, the admiration of wisdom obtained in youth, and the promise of a changed world told in verse, let us not forget that we do not have to watch the news or travel to our nation’s capital to be inspired by what young people can do. As Coginchaug Regional High School student Amanda Kowalczyk said, “One simple positive action can change everything.”
Our district’s latest inspiration is “[T]he littering that was happening borne from a concern that many of us gave our school and students a bad have seen on social media: trash bereputation,” she said. ing discarded near the CRHS campus. Shane Fitzpatrick believes those sulDo not make the mistake of thinking lying the land are “disrespectful” and that all students are indifferent to the “irresponsible.” situation. Jenna Deponte has this take on the situation. “I think it has become such Penny Wickwire describes the “mess of garbage in and around the school a problem because people are in a parking lot” as “shocking.” hurry, and they think that one little piece of trash won’t harm anything,” Katelyn Grenier is concerned that the she said. problem goes beyond the trash that is left on the ground.
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The group submitted a petition carrying 3,700 signatures seeking a flag ban in September and received no response from fair organizers, according to the letter.
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Team member Paul Bergenholtz compared the flag to the swastika as a symbol whose meaning was initially positive, used by many groups including the Boy Scouts of America and some U.S. Army troops, before it was corrupted by Nazi Party members in 1920s Germany.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently presented an update on the Durham-Middletown water project, which will provide a new drinking supply for the residences and businesses within the Durham Meadows Superfund Site.
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The Superfund Site encompasses an area along Route 17 in Durham and includes 54 properties. The EPA com-
pleted removal of contamination in the soil at the former Merriam Manufacturing Company in 2012. Since the project commenced in September 2019, almost 30,000 feet of water main has been installed along Talcott Lane, Maple Avenue, Maiden Lane and Pickett Lane in Durham. Only one short section of Maiden Lane remains incomplete. The clean water will be stored and brought from a 790,000-gallon water
tank in Middletown that is projected to be fully operational by September. “All dates are estimates,” said EPA Project Manager Edward Hathaway. “Work sequencing and the actual dates for activities might be earlier or later depending on the construction progress, unanticipated conditions and potential COVID-19 restrictions.” See Water, A12
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This heartwarming sight put an instant smile on my face, prompting me to play Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day,” and I continue to smile each time I glance at that litter-free bike path and surrounding forest.
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Hearing voices outside my home recently, I looked out my window to the surprising delight of CRHS teacher Robb Bajoros and a group of students scattered throughout the woods behind Coginchaug picking up litter. What a breath of fresh air! Such an admirable undertaking.
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My purr-fect housemates Kitty Shiloh and kitty Dakota never fail to amuse me. They are such funny little dears, with a charming array of idiosyncrasies. I’d like to, if I may, share a few of them with you. Let’s start off with Shiloh. He’s a character, alright. You may recall how he used to take every opportunity to jump into my refrigerator. As soon as he heard that door open he came barreling in and, lickety-split, bounded into the fridge. I had to bribe him to come out by shaking a bag of his treats, which apparently was more exciting for him than the spinach. I guess it was just a phase, because he doesn’t do that anymore. For one thing, I have it fully stocked with veggies, and there is no room for a large cat in there. I can almost hear him thinking, “Hmmm. I wonder if I could scooch around the kale, bear left by the yams, take a right by the Brussel sprouts, and nestle in by the
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81 cases were reported locally Durham and Middlefield – like nearly all other Connecticut municipalities – are in the coronavirus red zone. The color coded status for cities and towns represents two weeks of cases. The trigger for red status starts at a rate of 15 cases per 100,000 people per day.
As of Jan. 21, the total of laboratory-confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases reported among Connecticut residents was 237,815. One thousand fifty-eight patients were hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. There had been 6,819 COVID-19-associated deaths.
The state’s most recent report, issued Jan. 21, showed 64 positive cases in Durham and 17 in Middlefield. That works out to an average of 63.5 daily cases in Durham and 27.7 in Middlefield per 100,000 people.
COVID-19 symptoms can include cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fever or chills, muscle or body aches, sore throat, headache, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, runny nose or stuffy nose, fatigue and loss of taste or smell.
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Get the skills you need to get back to work. Middletown Adult Education offers free online high school completion classes and an online GED program.
Join Durham Middlefield Local Wellness Coalition and Durham Middlefield Youth & Family Services for the free Zoom presentation “What You Need to Know About Youth Vaping” Thursday, Feb. 4 at 5:30 p.m. To register, email dmiccinello@ dmyfs.org.
The Durham Farmers Market is held Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Durham Activity Center, 350 Main St. Use the side entrance. There is an elevator for easy access, and a stairwell. Masks are required. For more information, visit farmersmarket@townofdurhamct.org.
The American Red Cross urges individuals who have fully recovered and received a verified COVID-19 diagnosis to sign up to give convalescent plasma now by completing the donor eligibility form at redcrossblood.org/plasma4covid.
The Estuary Transit District’s complimentary COVID Testing Transportation program provides rides to district test sites. Details at estuarytransit.org.
Blood donation appointments can be made by downloading the free Blood Donor App, visiting redcrossblood.org, calling 1800-733-2767 or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device.
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Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., named Dmitrey Guenther to its dean’s list for the fall semester. Roger Williams University, Bristol, R.I., named Samuel Castiglia, Rhiannon Peters, Noah Shoudy and Matthew Woznyk to its dean’s list for the fall semester. Springfield College, Springfield, Mass., named Sarah Collins and Emily Carroll to its dean’s list for the fall semester. University of New Haven, West Haven, named Cameron Ledford to its dean’s list for the fall semester.
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And legislative leaders and a spokesman for Lamont all said no talk of raises can proceed unless it’s done in a collaborative, nonpartisan manner.
He noted that lawmakers haven’t received a pay hike since 2001 and constitutional officers since 2003. “Inflation over the years certainly has dimmed the value of their compensation.”
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would involve an increase of slightly more than 1%. But because no raise could be implemented before the next term for lawmakers begins, in January 2023, the increase would be based on inflationary rates at that time.
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Green streak of light seen in the night sky Monday
Tami Kniffin was among the witnesses. The Wallingford resident was on Northford
Road near Muddy River Farm, driving home from her job as an assembler at a printing company in Guilford, when she saw the quick green streak of light.
plane or something like that, with the way it was arcing over.”
Other witnesses described the flaming ball of light as being light blue, orange or “It looked like a big green red, likely due to the location of the witnesses in relafireball is what I could say. You could see that it was on tion to the sky. Green is a fire,” Kniffin said Monday. “It common color for comets wasn’t a solid circle. You and meteors, as it is the colcould see little sparks, like, or human eyes are most sencoming out of the side of it. I sitive to, but the chemical could tell that it wasn’t a compounds within the fire-
ball or expelled by it also play a role. Metallic meteors, for example, are frequently green because they are composed of iron and nickel. Kniffin was happy she got a chance to see it, but said she had no chance to photograph it. She was driving, her cellphone was sitting beside her, turned off, and the fireball was gone so fast that she never tried to grab her camera.
Lamont to co-chair national task force HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee have been appointed to co-chair a national task force designed to coordinate the response of states to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Lamont, a Democrat, and Lee, a Republican, will lead the new National Governor Association’s Pandemic and Disaster Response Task Force, which is charged with advocating for the states on issues such as the distribution of vaccines, testing supplies and personal protective equipment.
“Throughout this unprecedented crisis, I have worked with my neighboring governors to ensure our responses were coordinated,” Lamont said in a statement. “We also worked with our federal partners as we responded to multiple severe weather events, and I am eager to exchange ideas and best practices with my fellow governors.”
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He is survived by his wife, Linda Dean; son, Richard Nunney (Prince Edward Island, CN); stepson James Donald Dean, Jr., wife Barbie (Weisinger), step granddaughters Abbey and Arin; stepson Joshua Daniel Dean, wife Kristin (Pauzano), step grandsons Ethan and Carter; stepdaughter Amanda (Dean) Parker, husband Kenny, step grandsons Colby and Michael; stepdaughter Lesley and husband Brian Dearnley; step grandsons Christopher Nagge; Adam Nagge, wife Amy and step great granddaughter Shay-Lynn Nagge; step grandson Dylan Dearnley; stepson, Graham Nunney (Ontario, CN); his sister Bett Wheat (Ontario, CN); his nieces Pam and husband Steve Woolven; Margaret and husband Paddy Reilly, Carole Cottee (UK); and Susan Love (CN). The family would like to offer special thanks and gratitude to the amazing doctors, nurses and staff of the Hartford Hospital Trauma, Palliative and Hospice Care teams who gave such amazing care to John. A memorial service for Frederick John Nunney is planned for February 6, 2021 at 12 Noon EST. Given the current situation with COVID, the service will be via Zoom. For information on memorial service link or send condolences to the family, please visit www. doolittlefuneralservice. com. In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000 Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38101-9908 to honor John’s memory.
Frederick John Nunney athlete challenged to swim be missed terribly. MIDDLE TOWN Frederick “John” Nunney, 86, husband of Linda (Marie Gonzalez) Dean of Middletown, passed away on January 6, 2021 at the Hartford Hospital. Born May 5, 1934 in Plymouth, England, John spent much of his life in the UK, Canada and later relocated to the United States. Like a lot of British kids growing up during WWII and facing extraordinary challenges, once John accepted those as “normal”, he was then able to make the best of things always throughout his lifetime. He attended local UK traditional schools and at 17 joined the UK Army, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (RWF) completing his service in Jamaica, Bermuda, Germany, and Belize. Following that commitment, John thrived at many things including managing a successful fish and chip shop for years in the UK, overseeing the VonDuprin and Sargent hardware manufacturing plants and developing one of the most lucrative sales territories for Weber Supply Distributors in Canada. He had a great sense of humor and was very content in his life. He had a reputation as the family storyteller capturing a lot about his WWII childhood, remembering bringing evacuees into his home, memories of bombs dropping and recalling the American soldiers preparing for Normandy stationed nearby who fondly treated him to their ration candies. He cherished his time in the RWFs where he adored swimming and playing water pool. As an
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Nursick said in 2018. On I91, 15 closed-circuit television cameras are being installed between Cromwell and the Meriden I-691 interchange, including a camera on Route 15 near the junction. Another 14 cameras are going on I-691 between the I-91/Route 15 interchange and I-84 in Southington. This phase of the project is estimated to cost $10,527,660. Three electronic overhead variable message signs are also being installed at a cost of about $13,340,470. As of Monday, concrete foundations for the camera poles and the poles themselves have been installed. One of the three variable message signs is up and the others will be installed likely in February, Nursick said. Almost all of the trenching and conduit is complete and fiber optic cabling has been installed and is being spliced where appropriate. The cameras have yet to be installed, Nursick said. Federal aid will cover 90 percent of costs for both phases, Nursick said. nsambides@record-journal.com
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Since their humble beginning, the Vocal Chords have grown to more than 90 voices strong. Although the pandemic sidelined the group for awhile, in 2021, the Vocal Chords look forward to continuing their mission of relieving stress, lifting spirits and healing souls through music.
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After observing a seriously ill patient respond when singing softly to him, Ghent had a dream of helping others through music. So, gathering a few hospital employees, the Vocal Chords were born.
Forensics experts from Yale University became heavily involved in the trial (seemingly the first time in America’s history) perhaps showing a degree of antiMethodist bias by the mostly Congregational professors. But the minister was popular, he had a beautiful wife, and the arsenic evidence was quite complicated for the jurors to comprehend.
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Middlesex Hospital Vocal Chords will be celebrating their 31st anniversary on Saturday, Feb. 13. The Vocal Chords were founded on Feb. 13, 1990 by Joyce Ghent, a registered nurse at Middlesex Hospital.
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