Budget meeting, vote set

Notice is hereby given to all those eligible to vote in town meetings in the member towns of Durham and Middlefield that the Annual Meeting of Regional School District 13 will be held Monday, May 1 at 7 p.m. in the Julian Thayer Auditorium at Coginchaug Regional High School, 135 Pickett

Lane, for the following purpose: To present the amended proposed budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year as prepared by the RSD13 Board of Education.

The moderator shall adjourn the Annual Meeting at its conclusion and the budget shall be submitted to a vote upon the voting tabulators in the district’s member towns of Durham and Middlefield on Tuesday, May 2, in accordance with Section 10-51 of the Connecticut General Statutes, between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 p.m., under the following heading: "Shall the proposed budget of $39,426,575 for the 20232024 fiscal year as prepared

See Budget, A14

Along with restaurants offering “delicious Italian cuisine,” Mazzotta said this year’s festival will feature a vendor tent.

One of the items available there will be the Italian cookbook “Cooking From The Heart,” by Mazzotta’s wife, Nella. The book details traditional Sicilian recipes along with their vegan versions.

Nella Mazzotta wrote the book when her son Nicholas became a vegan. “The traditional Italian food that he used to eat and love, that had meat and fish, he couldn’t any more,” she said.

As a result, “I decided to become very clever and make

On Sunday, the final day of the Saint Sebastian’s feast, before the 11 a.m. high mass, about 100 people will gather at Saint Sebastian’s Church Cemetery in Middlefield for the “I Nuri Run.”

Run organizer Joe Spatola, Jr. said when the “Nuri” leave the cemetery they will go straight down Route 66 into Middletown and pause in front of the St. Sebastian’s statue before turning right into Mellili Plaza and straight to the Sons of Italy Hall. There, they’ll wait for the signal to enter the church.

“That is the way it has always been done historically,” Spatola stated.