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$1M sidewalk project planned By Nadya Korytnikova Town Times
Traveling along Main Street in Durham will soon become a bit easier.
The contentious 2020 election ended with Joe Biden defeating President Donald Trump. While the election is over, for many in our deeply polarized country, bitter feelings remain. Pictured: Durham resident Tracy Ogrodnik said two of her Trump signs were vandalized in the lead-up to the Nov. 3 election.
The election’s over, but not the fighting By Nadya Korytnikova Town Times
The morning of the Nov. 3 election, the United States Postal Service disclosed that more than 300,000 mail-in ballots nationwide had not been scanned. Many on social media were rightfully alarmed by this news, believing it meant the ballots had gone missing. But did they?
“The assumption that there are unaccounted ballots within the Postal Service network is inaccurate,” the USPS said in a press release. “These ballots were delivered in advance of the election deadlines. We employed extraordinary measures to deliver ballots directly to local boards of elections. When this occurs, by design, these ballots bypass certain processing operations and do not receive a final scan. Instead, they are expedited directly to the boards of elections.”
Town officials and environmental engineering firm Nathan L. Jacobson & Associates met recently to discuss an upcoming sidewalk project which will “promote safe, healthy, enjoyable nonmotorized transportation options for the town residents,” according to the Durham First Selectman Laura Francis.
New grassed sidewalks, pedestrian crossings, street lights, and bike lanes will be added from 6 Main St. (intersection of Main Street and Route 79) to 360 Main St. (intersection of Main Street and Haddam Quarter Road). Each sidewalk will be fivefeet-wide, according to Aaron Mortensen, an environmental engineer from Nathan L. Jacobson & Associates. The estimated cost for the project, based on quotes from Nathan L. Jacobson & Associates, is about
$1,134,000. Part of it will be covered by a $400,000 Connectivity Grant the town received in 2019, and the balance will come from a LOTCIP grant administered through the Lower Connecticut River Valley Council of Governments which will be available in 2023. An undetermined number of trees will be removed during the construction process, although Mortensen said he will “keep as many of them as possible.” See Sidewalk, A6
Rumors regarding mail-in ballots have swirled since that voting option propelled Joe Biden to victory over Donald Trump. The President himself has said the election was stolen from him. Southington resident Alexandra Anderson said she “always fully trusted the election results until this year.” “There is a huge uncertainty in what actually happened. We really don’t have confidence in how the ballots were processed,” Anderson said.
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Her husband, Mark Anderson, echoed that.
By Bronwyn Commins Special to Town Times
“The faith in the election system has been completely lost,” he said. “The election outcome cannot be decided by the media, it has to be decided by the legal electoral process.” Durham resident Matthew Pepe believes that different states having different voter identification See Election, A7
A trailer packed with goods is pictured during a past Community Round-Up. This year’s local food drive, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, will be drop-off style.
The name is different, but the objective is the same: Bringing the community together to collect food for those in need during the holidays. Bringing people together to support their neighbors. Bringing people together? This is 2020, remember? We are supposed to be six feet apart, masked, steering clear of gatherings. Well, RSD13 social worker Kathy Bottini, pioneer of what was previously-known-as the Community Round-Up, is not going to let a
pandemic stop her from helping people and honoring the spirit of the community. With the pandemic in mind, this year, the roundup morped into the Community Drop-Off, and will be held Saturday, Dec. 5. Bottini and her team have worked tirelessly to guarantee that the collection continues. While teams of students and parents can no longer gather in cars, drop food off in a crowded gym, and support groups of volunteers who are boxing up non-perishable items for delivery, the dedication to community remains unchanged. See Drive, A6
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HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont announced last Thursday that he is prohibiting all youth and recreational sports from being played in Connecticut until at least Jan. 19 due to the increasing rise in COVID-19 cases. The move comes two days after the CIAC announced it was delaying the start of the 2020-21 high school winter season, also until Jan. 19 at the earliest. The CIAC also cited rising numbers in COVID-19 cases and schools falling back to distance learning in making its decision. Lamont’s decree went into effect on Monday, Nov. 23. It does not apply to pro or college sports. Earlier this month, Lamont had prohibited high-risk sports, such as wrestling and
11-on-11 tackle football, from being played for the rest of the year. He allowed moderate-risk youth sports — basketball and ice hockey among them — to be played so long as athletes wore masks, though hockey teams were barred from playing opponents from out of state, a move Lamont made in conjunction with governors in the region. Thursday’s announcement shuts down everything this side of pro and college sports for eight weeks, and it’s being done, Lamont said, in an effort to keep schools open as long as possible. Lamont noted that 17 school closings in the state and the quarantining of 235 teachers had been contact traced to coronavirus outbreaks among sports teams. The See Sports, A7
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Why was it critical to make the event happen again this year? “Having some version of the Community Round-Up was very important to us,” said Bottini. “Our committee felt that the need to fill our food banks is more important than ever this year. After 14 years of holding this event, we couldn’t let our community down, so we de-
According to the Connecticut Food Bank, 400,000 people in their six-county service area will face food insecurity this year due to the pandemic. In October, CNN reported that the percentage of people without access to adequate food has doubled. It is these numbers that have motivated the Community Drop-Off team, which got to work in September. The selfless group includes school
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After this very contentious election season, many Americans, including President-elect Biden, are calling for calm.
Speaking of local politics, Talbert-Slagle said “I trust that, if and when someone behaves in a way that is divisive or sows distrust, the many bipartisan volunteers who serve our community will come together to hold that person accountable and reduce political divisiveness in our town.”
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governor reported that 29 total outbreaks had been linked to sports teams. “How can we try and limit the spread due to sports teams? Here, we’re going to be strict,” Lamont said. “I salute the (CIAC) saying we’re going to postpone all high school winter sports, not starting to Jan. 19. I know how tough that is to families, I know what you’re looking forward to, but we’ve just seen too many infections in and around those winter sports.”
Fernandes believes Trump has exploited the political divide in the U.S., putting his “self-interests before the public interest.”
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Santa, after this crazy year, I could really use a visit Dear Santa, Well, here we are again. My annual letter. I like checking in on you this time of year. So how have you been doing? It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? I know with the social distancing, you and the Missus have probably not been making your usual rounds of parties. I hope the two of you spending so
been a long time since anyone has come to see me, and I figure that, since you’ll be in the neighborhood, you might oblige. I usually go to bed with the chickens but you pay that no mind. Any time will be fine with me. I think you will like the nightie I will be donning. It has a picture of you on it.
much time together has not given over to a sense of ennui. Well, no worries my friend, you’ll have a night out soon. I’m thinking it will be on Christmas Eve. An allnighter, no less! Due to present circumstances, I have been feeling quite socially isolated. So if this sounds good to you, I would just love for you to make a pit stop at my house on your night out. It’s
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With the COVID-19 pandemic surging again and in some cases moving students to full-time remote learning, students of all ages are feeling a variety of emotions as they cope with how the virus has impacted education. “When I talk to parents and they’re of course calling very emotionally charged — their child is not coping well and they’re distraught about what’s going on and what’s being taken away from their child’s normal routine,” said Joanne Etter, co-owner of Apple Valley Behavioral Health in Southington. Each student grapples differently with the impact of the
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“For teenagers...They’re grieving the loss of not hanging out with friends, not having the clubs, the sports, the parties, the things that they can’t do right now,” she added.
“Caregivers, parents, need to, of course, validate their feelings without judgment or correction,” Etter said. “... How you talk to a six-yearold versus a 10-year-old versus a 16-year-old is going to be very different.
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Commentary: Thank you for the opportunity to serve By State Sen. Len Fasano
Serving as your state senator for the last 18 years has been a privilege, a blessing and an incredible honor. As I prepare to retire from the Senate, I could not leave office without expressing my gratitude to every constituent who put their trust in me to represent their voices in Hartford. You entrusted me with your vote, to advocate for the most vulnerable, to bring people together, and to overcome challenges that may have seemed insurmountable. By allowing me to serve, you have given me an opportunity to learn and grow into a better person. For all I have experienced I am forever grateful. Reflecting on 18 years in the state Senate there are a lot of experiences we all went through together: devastating storms that destroyed our homes, the tragedy in
Sandy Hook, calling out government failures and system abuses that allowed the most vulnerable children to fall through the cracks, the never ending fight to bring fiscal sanity to our state and weathering this pandemic and the social and economic crises that comes with it. Those were challenges. There are also a number of successes that came by working together. We passed first in the nation legislation to make health care more affordable and accessible by fighting back against surprise medical billing, facility fees, pharmacy gag clauses and by increasing health care transparency. We developed and adopted the first truly bipartisan budget in decades that led to the implementation of smart fiscal policies that have eluded lawmakers for years. We now have a historic level of funding in our state's rainy day fund, caps on
spending and borrowing, and we increased the state's efforts to pay down on our unfunded pension liabilities. And when Republicans gained an unprecedented equal number of seats in the Senate as Democrats held, we developed and adopted a historic agreement to run the Senate in partnership between the two parties. We
put the institution and the people above politics. All of the above is what you the people elect us to do and what you expect of your lawmakers. I was just doing my job, a job I loved and was honored to do. What I want to thank those in my district for is giving me the opportunity to serve
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Baking challenge. Nailed Library update. The It: Hanukkah-themed bakDurham Public Library is ing challenge. For all ages, open to the public, but curb- How did the women of Con- with the help of an adult. side pickup is still available necticut work for – or against Visit the library Facebook by request. and Instagram pages on – the right to vote? Visit the Tuesday, Dec. 1 to get the library website to register. Zoom cooking class (for recipes. No registration adults). Live cooking class Origami challenge. A new needed. with Food Explorers. challenge is posted to the liWednesday, Dec. 2 at 5:30 JobNow. Looking for a brary Facebook and Instap.m. Learn to cook gnocchi. gram pages each Friday in job? Begin your job Visit the library website to search, write your resume November. Drop by the liregister. or practice for an interbrary and pick up some view with JobNow. You just need your Durham Library card to access the database on the library ...serving Durham, Middlefield & Rockfall website.
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Zoom Dungeons & Dragons. Meets Wednesdays at 7 p.m. through Dec. 16. Grades 7 and up. Play D & D with other local teens. Visit the library website to register (Kids tab).
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Since 1966, members of the National Christmas Tree Association have presented a beautiful, fresh Christmas tree to the First Family. This tree is displayed in the Blue Room of The White House.
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