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Tropical Storm Elsa carved a destructive and soaking path up the East Coast last week after killing at least one person in Florida and spinning up a tornado at a Georgia Navy base that flipped recreational vehicles upside-down and blew one of them into a lake. Elsa moved through Connecticut Friday, July 9 closing streets, flooding basements and damaging cars. Middlefield took on 3.98 inches of rain, while Durham received 1.86 inches. Nearby, some of the heaviest flooding in 30 years was visited upon downtown Meriden. At its worst the storm almost flooded the Police Department on West Main Street and left up to 2½ feet of water submerging blocks-long sections of Hanover, Pratt and State streets as Hanover Brook overflowed. The floodwaters also took the Quinnipiac River over its banks near Route 15 and the Quinnipiac Street bridge in Wallingford. Eversource said as of 3 p.m. Friday, more than 13,000 customers had their power restored since the storm began, while crews were working to address the remaining 6,000 outages. The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and state Department of Public Health advised Saturday against swimming or having recreational contact with water in areas where sewage systems may have been compromised by the rain. That includes the Quinnipiac River, and bodies of water near the state’s major cites. New Haven Health Director Maritza Bond said Lighthouse Beach would be closed while water samSee Storm, A6

For the 61st consecutive year, the Casey-O'Brien New Haven County Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame recognized young men that play football and excel in the classroom. This year, 26 were honored for their academic excellence, leadership and citizenship, including Coginchaug’s Evan Faiella. An All-State player in 2019, Faiella was elected captain of the Blue Devils for 2020, a season lost to the pandemic. Faiella is pictured with his parents, Nick and Valerie, and scholar-athlete chairman Kevin O'Brien.

Rescue plan funds to be discussed Aug. 9 By Nadya Korytnikova Town Times

Town officials in Durham must decide on a spending plan for the funds received as part of the American Rescue Plan — a $1.9 trillion economic relief package signed by President Joe Biden on March 11. The Town of Durham will receive $0.71 million in municipal aid while Regional School District 13 is set to receive $472,000, according to estimates shared by Congressman John Larson’s office. On Monday night, the Board of Selectmen voted to discuss the matter at a public hearing on Aug. 9 at 8 p.m. “This is money that I believe has the ability to do some good for our community and we should provide as much opportunity for our community to make a choice on how we spend that,” First Selectman Laura Francis said. See Funds, A9

Monday, July 12, the Durham Board of Selectmen set a public hearing date for an ordinance establishing the Town of Durham American Rescue Plan Act fund.

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Maskless and loving it

I am still wearing a mask, so I will understand if you walk right past me. You still won’t know when I am smiling. I am thinking of holding up a sign that informs you of my ear-to-ear grin. “I’m smiling now.” If I happen to be frowning, no sign. I don’t feel like you need to know. But rest assured (well, I do) that my mask will be a thing of the past, too, in due time. And there will be a huge smile pasted on my face. No sign necessary. That smile will be waiting for you. And it will be bigger than ever.

Schools Student records to be destroyed The Student Services and Special Education Department of Regional School District 13 will destroy special education/ 504 records of students who graduated or would have graduated with the Class of 2015. These records will be destroyed on Friday, Aug. 13. To obtain student records, a written request must be submitted no later than Thursday, Aug. 12. Forward requests to Jennifer Keane, Director of Student Services and Special Education, Regional School District 13, 135A Pickett Lane, PO Box 190, Durham, CT 06422. Confirm receipt by calling 860-349-7208.

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As an aside, isn’t it so nice to see life slowly inching toward pre-pandemic life? Faces are a good start. What keeps me going during the tough times, like this one, is that nothing lasts forever, though it might seem like it. We are starting to let our breath out, slowly.

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The Powder Ridge Mountain Music Series kicks off Wednesday, July 28 with if she was new. It turned out, Melvin Seals and JGB. Tickets are $38. Gates open at 6 she had been at that bank p.m. The show begins at for over a year, and 7:30. The 2021 music series we talked to each other evlineup will include nationalery week. She let me off the hook, though. She said I ly recognized bands from around the U.S. For a full list was thrown off because she changed her hair. Actually, I of concerts and to purchase tickets, visit Powderwas thrown off by seeing a RidgePark.com. face.

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I take notice of people’s unmasked faces now like they are an oddity. Pray tell, what is that above your neck? Have you always had it? I love seeing faces and all the expressions that go with them. For all those months we had no idea what was going on beneath those masks. It felt like we were living in another dimension, and not a fun one.

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Connecticut Mosquito Management Program begins The State of Connecticut Mosquito Management Program has begun its monitoring of mosquitoes for the presence of viruses that can cause illness in people, including West Nile Virus (WNV) and the eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus. The mosquito trapping and testing program, coordinated by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) operates through the end of October. CAES reports there are 108 mosquito-trapping stations in 87 municipalities throughout the state. The mosquitoes are grouped

(pooled) for testing according to species, collection site, and date. Visit the CAES website for weekly testing results (portal.ct.gov/CAES). Over the past few years, the U.S. has had an increase in cases of mosquito-borne illnesses. Last year in Connecticut, CAES reported eight human cases of WNV and zero human cases of EEE. Therefore, as summer begins, it is important to remind residents of ways to prevent mosquito habitats and bites. People have an important role to play in protecting themselves and their loved

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Free admission for children at 90-plus Conn. museums Gov. Ned Lamont has announced the launch of Connecticut Summer at the Museum – a new state program created in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that allows Connecticut children to receive free admission at more than 90 museums across Connecticut during the 2021 summer months. The program was originally proposed earlier this year by the governor as part of his larger plan to use a portion

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In Brief Matilda The Musical Don’t miss Middletown Stage Company's Matilda The Musical this weekend at Portland High School. The cast is made up of local youth age 8 to 19. Remaining performances: Friday, July 16 (7 p.m.); Saturday, July 17 (1 and 7 p.m.). Tickets can be purchased at the door, or online at middletownstagecompany.org.

Wellness expo The Passport to Health and Wellness Expo will take place Sunday, July 18, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at The Bristol DoubleTree by Hilton. This benefit, presented by the Holistic Community Professionals, will feature speakers, vendors and readers, free raffles and a drum healing closing ceremony.

Military concert The Berlin Veterans Commission announced the 102nd Army Band, CTANG, will play a “Tribute to Veterans and Gold Star Families Concert” Wednesday, July 21, 6:30 p.m., at Veterans Memorial Park on Veterans Way in Berlin (near Stop & Shop). The Brass Band, Jazz Combo and Brass Quintet ensembles will perform both patriotic and pop music. The concert is free and open to the public. Attendees are invited to bring lawnchairs and picnic baskets.

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Comcast technicians are looking for tattered flags as part of the company’s free Flag Replacement Program. The effort is led by employees who participate in the Veterans Network Employee Resource Group known as “VetNet.” If a Comcast technician notices a worn-out flag at a home or business, the technician shares the location with the flag replacement team, which contacts the individual or business and offers to replace it, whether that resident or business is a customer or not. What’s more, the old flags are retired in accordance with military protocols. Comcast technicians are looking to replace worn flags throughout Western New England, which includes more than 300 communities. In just a few weeks since the program launched, the team has replaced over 20 American flags.

Veterans Open The Golden Kielbasa Veterans Open, the state’s largest veterans charity golf event, which in its first 10 years raised more than $140,000 for Connecticut veterans causes, will return to Tunxis Plantation Country Club in Farmington on Friday, Oct. 8 with the support of Liberty Bank. To reserve a spot for your foursome in advance, to sponsor the event, or for general questions, contact Dennis Buden at dennis.buden@davchapter8.org or 860-558-0514, or visit davchapter8.org/goldenkielbasa.

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Library Durham Public Library Hours. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday, Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Doodle Art (Zoom). Tuesday, July 27 at 6 p.m. For age 11-plus. Create black and white doodle art following the Summer Reading theme – Tails and Tales. Visit durhamlibrary.org to register. Read to Rover. Thursday, July 29 and Friday, July 30 at 3 p.m. For all ages. Read one-on-one to Jackson, a certified therapy dog. Email Miss Lauren at lredfield@ durhamlibrary.org for a 15-minute time slot. Mother Goose Storytime with Miss Diana. Available anytime on the library’s YouTube channel. Hoopla Book Club Hub Discussion (Zoom). Tuesday, July 20 at 7 p.m. “The Mystery of Mrs. Christie” by Marie Benedict. Visit durhamlibrary.org to register. Let’s Talk Pets: Cat Behavior (Zoom). Thursday, July 22 at 7 p.m. with Dr. Geller. Find out why your cats do certain things. Visit durhamlibrary.org to register.

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Gilead awarded $15K grant Gilead Community Services, Inc. is grateful to receive a $15,000 grant from the Maximilian E. and Marion O. Hoffman Foundation, which will be used to replace the handicap ramp at its Juniper Home residential program. A press release from Gilead states, “Our organization operates with an empowerment model and believes that community integration and involvement is vital for recovery and well-being. We often take clients out into the community for social and leisure activities to contribute to their recovery and well-being. Replacing this ramp will ensure that all current and future residents of Juniper Home will be safe and comfortable, and be able to participate fully in all activities within and outside the house.” Gilead Community Services, Inc. has provided housing, support services and clinical treatment to individuals with mental illness throughout Middlesex County since 1968. Gilead offers a continuum of services to foster recovery.

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person popping in, but not always,” she said of her children ages eight, six and four, It became a common sight Katie Dykes, Connecticut’s while speaking on … well … commissioner of the Depart- — Dykes Zooming away in a telephone, not Zoom, on a ment of Energy and Environ- what in normal times was day state offices were just her three kids’ playroom that starting to reopen. mental Protection, can tell she’d co-opted as a home you precisely how much From her spot in front of the office. time she’s spent on Zoom blue wall, and occasionally meetings since the pandem- “I could close the door and other rooms in her home, ic stay-at-home orders were most of the time be able to Dykes closed parks, opened issued in March 2020. be on a call without a little “A lot. A lot.” And then she laughs — a lot.

parks, touted the techniques of social distancing on trails and dealt with several storms and resulting widespread power outages. She started the process of upending electric grid management, planned how to realign the power for that grid and oversaw hundreds of people volunteering to write a climate change master plan for the state. She tackled the 5-alarm emergency

of the state’s antiquated waste management systems. And she piloted any number of legislative initiatives — including the small, but mighty, Transportation and Climate Initiative to begin the process of reducing carbon emissions from transportation — through a barely tame-able legislative session.

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It was a daunting list of undertakings if there were no pandemic. In a pandemic? Zoom. “It was amazing. Zoom turned out to be one of the most fantastic, I guess technological, accidents for tackling this crisis,” she said, specifically referring to the waste overhaul process after it became clear the big Hartford trash-to-energy and recycling facility was destined to be abandoned. Officially the process was called the Connecticut Coalition for Sustainable Materials Management, launched last August with four working groups involving more than 75 municipalities and dozens of other of-

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ficials. They muscled through many difficult issues to establish priorities in time to get legislation ready for January. “Had we tried to do that in the normal course with inperson meetings … I don’t think we would have gotten a fraction of the participation that we did,” Dykes said. She has company in that view. “There’s no way they could have conducted all of those meetings with the volume of research done and embedded; I don’t believe it could have happened,” said Matt Knickerbocker, first selectman of Bethel who served as CCSMM co-chair. Aside from the huge array of municipal elected and appointed officials involved in the meetings, he said they could see from the Zoom

registrations that there were lobbyists from all over the East Coast and experts from all over, period. “What we have achieved is a level of awareness and involvement at the municipal level that wouldn’t have been as large and effective as it was,” he said. Dave Aldridge, executive director of the Southeastern Connecticut Regional Resource Recovery Authority who has been proactive on his own pushing pilot projects on food waste composting and other initiatives, said Dykes was phenomenally successful in getting people engaged, including members of his own board.

Watson, executive director of Operation Fuel, to come around. “I was really irritated in the beginning by that,” she said of DEEP’s insistence on forging ahead with public sessions and other initiatives when organizations like hers were slammed with people suddenly in desperate need of services due to the pandemic. “I was under tremendous pressure and stress,” she

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said. “I was just feeling like, ‘Could we just hit the pause button for a minute? We’re responding to basic needs.’” Ultimately she saw that keeping things moving was the right approach. And it wound up saving her a lot of time. “We were able to fully engage in the legislative process. If it was 1 in the morning, you could just roll over See DEEP, A16

“Zoom is the real hero in the fact that it drove a lot of participation,” he said. “It made it easy for people.” But it took a bit for Brenda

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Women of the Woods (or WoW), a program of Everyone Outside, offers monthly hikes in the Durham/Middlefield area. Durham resident Lucy Meigs is offering two socially-distanced hikes per month. Visit EveryoneOutside.org or email Lucy at Lucy@EveryoneOutside.org.

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Levi E. Coe Library has been selected as one of 300 libraries to participate in Libraries Transforming Communities, an American Library Association initiative that helps library workers better serve their small and rural communities. The competitive award comes with a $3,000 grant.

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Middletown Adult Education has joined a national camAs part of the grant, Levi Coe paign to enroll adult learners staff will take an online into programs that equip course in how to lead conthem with skills that lead to versations, a skill vital to lihigh school equivalency and brary work. jobs that pay a family-sustaining wage. Staff will then host a One Book, One Community con- Adult education provides versation with residents uson-ramps to better jobs and ing the title, Caste: The Orito college. For more inforgins of Our Discontents by mation, call 860-343-6044 or Isabel Wilkerson. The library visit maect.org. will utilize the grant funds to purchase copies of the book

Volunteers tend to the Middlefield-Durham Giving Garden Wednesdays and Saturdays 9 a.m. to noon. Stop by to lend a hand. The garden is located behind the community center on Main Street.

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and testify. Looking back on it, I feel like DEEP did a really good job of keeping all the balls in the air.” The Connecticut League of Conservation Voters got to see Zoom-power in its own operation, moving its annual pre-session environmental summit online.

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“Everybody took a pivot in some fashion,” said Lori Brown, the executive director. “Everything shifted.”

Brown said the easy access increased summit participation by about one-third over typical in-person attendance. She said about 50 lawmakers joined in, when usually it’s 35 or 40. “People really missed the networking,” Brown conceded. “That’s the golden facetime that you get.” She and others said that was a critical component missing by not having access at the Capitol. “The ways we access legislators had to change, because they could avoid us,” said

Leah Lopez Schmalz, chief program director at Save the Sound. No more hanging around in the lunchroom waiting to pounce. Tactics shifted to more direct calls and social media shout-outs. But she said online access un-cloaked the process to the public. “We recognized that we are in an age where our population should be able to access their government, and there should be transparency,” she said. “That was a learning exercise that occurred this session, and it was a good one.” Dykes also used Zoom and online sessions to wrangle other major long-term projects.

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Most notably, she marshalled all six New England states, regional grid operator ISO-New England, stakeholders and experts from all over to begin discussing how to reform the rules governing grid operations and especially how to incorporate more renewable energy. Long a frustration of hers, even at the height of the pandemic she ran a series of online public forums featuring experts from all over the country on what is now called the New England Energy Vision. She and the other states got plenty of engagement and feedback. Participants made it clear that environmental justice considerations were being ignored in the three main topics that were addressed. “We heard from stakeholders who said, ‘Hey now, you’ve missed something critical here,’” Dykes said. So an environmental justice technical session was added, and more than 400 people participated. “It was a set of issues and voices that had not been heard; had not had a place in our regional electric policy dialogues,” Dykes said. And last month, the New England States Committee See DEEP, A17

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ment and sheer volume of work did not work out in the legislature quite as she had envisioned.

on Electricity, which represents the six New England governors’ electricity interests, issued a synthesis of what’s happened so far plus some recommendations for moving ahead.

She made several attempts to choose words to describe her post-session thoughts, noting that after last year’s non-session, there were a lot of priorities competing for a limited amount of time.

Another major effort was a report from the Governor’s Council on Climate Change (GC3) to provide a detailed path for addressing climate change across the breadth of just about everything in the state. It would require massive public input, never mind the nearly 300 people working on it.

“Am I disappointed that we,” then she stops. “Climate and clean energy legislative proposals that we brought forward, many of them, how do I want to say this? I was sur-

The first public session was held in New Haven about two weeks before the stayat-home order was issued in March 2020. Dykes considered delaying or suspending the work.

“I don’t know how to say this. I certainly wanted to see many more of our climate and clean energy proposals make it to the governor’s desk.”

ceived 10 years ago as a multi-state climate changecombatting concept for motor vehicles. It puts a cap on carbon pollution from motor vehicles, and a price on gasoline and transportation diesel fuel that’s above the cap as a way to incentivize using less of it.

other environmental justice communities. It also would help lower traditional pollutants in the process, likely improving health circumstances for areas closest to highways that suffer disproportionately from asthma — again, mostly economically challenged populations.

The biggest failure — so big it nearly eclipsed what successes there were — was the Transportation Climate Initiative, something advocates called the most important environmental legislation in years. TCI itself was con-

Gasoline suppliers pay that cost, which most likely they would pass to consumers. The states get the money and Connecticut planned to find ways to cycle at least half that money to underserved, over-burdened and

All the legislature had to do was pass a short bill that allowed Dykes and her team to create a state-specific program. For all the high-tech pandemic solutions and

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much less of an extent than some wanted to see. And a bill to add tires, smoke detectors and gas cylinders to the list of items Connecticut requires their manufacturers to take endof-life responsibility for also never made it to a vote. There were a few other wins for environmentalists, but a good deal more frustration and disappointment, now followed by determination.

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