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Gingerbread Village kicks off holiday season at Coe
SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY
By Everett Bishop Town Times
that it continues to grow year after year,” said Jess Lobner, library director.
There’s a new village in Middlefield and those who wander through this whimsical place will find it’s very sweet. The Friends of the Levi E. Coe Library recently sponsored the first annual Gingerbread Village. Dozens of cozy gingerbread homes and buildings were constructed by members of the community and are on display at the library. Jennifer Gaylord and Jeff Gustafson man their posts at the Borrowed Time Emporium in the Red Barn in Durham. Photo by Everett Bishop, Town Times
Effort to promote shopping locally will get more analysis By Everett Bishop Town Times
Durham residents took to the streets Nov. 30 to shop local on Small Business Saturday. Participants could pick up a passport, from the library, to be stamped at participating local businesses, with full passports entered into a drawing for prizes. “I think it’s been going great so far,” said Lauren Redfield, head of youth services at the library. “We’ve had kind of a steady stream at our pop-up book sale downstairs and we’ve had a few customers come in to wrap gifts that they bought at small businesses in town.”
Janet Morganti, chair of the Durham Economic Development Commission, said 50 passports were handed out and 31 were returned.
in Durham, said Small Business Saturday had gone “really well” and she was seeing “spurts of people” coming into her shop.
While fewer passports were distributed than anticipated, Morganti said, “I think getting new people into any business is a success.”
“Everybody seems to be coming back to basics,” she said.
“There were so many people out getting Christmas trees as we saw around town. I don't know if this was a factor,” she added. “At least the tree farms were busy.” “We will be sending out a survey to the businesses for input,” Morganti said. Jennifer Gaylord, owner of Borrowed Time Emporium
“Those of us that are of a different generation are more interested in having a personal conversation and not on social media. We struggle with that. Both things work but it’s so much more valuable to have people come in, chit chat, and talk about their holiday and what they’re doing for Christmas.” ebishop@record-journal.com 203-317-2444 Twitter: @everett_bishop
“The library is very excited to host the first annual Gingerbread Festival hosted by the Friends of the Levi E. Coe Library. We’ve had lots of interest and we hope
The Gingerbread Village also doubles as a competition and fundraiser for the Friends. Raffle tickets will be sold to visitors who then will be able to vote on their favorite gingerbread creation. “We made three houses for our first attempt this year. We had a great time but what we learned is that more than frosting goes into making a gingerbread house,” said Sue Dorvilliers, director of senior and social services. See Coe, A4
The Levi E. Coe library staff completed a gingerbread library for their contribution to the village. Photos by Everett Bishop, Town Times
The King/Painter family created Strawberry Lane Farm, complete with ducks, pigs and chickens.
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Accidental Harmony, the adult community choir from Durham and Middlefield, will host its Christmas concert on Sunday, Dec. 8, 4:30 to 7 p.m., at United Churches of Durham, 228 Main St.
Residents with medications that need to be disposed of can contact the Durham Middlefield Local Wellness Coalition for a free medication disposal bag.
The concert will feature familiar and new Christmas songs and the choir will be accompanied by a string quartet. Audience members are invited to sing along to four holiday favorites.
Email Prevention Coordinator Dena Miccinello at dmiccinello@dmyfs.org or call 860-349-0258. See Briefs, A5
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Middlefield Federated Church 402 Main St., 860-349-9881 has roots in both Congregational and Methodist religious traditions. Sunday worship – 10 a.m. Children are offered Sunday School with activities. Adults are offered music and reflection in both traditions.
4 p.m. and Sunday 9:30 a.m. at St. Colman; Sunday 8 and 11 a.m. at Notre Dame.
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350 Main St., Durham, 2nd floor, 860-704-0477. A non-denominational Christian/PenNotre Dame/ tecostal Church. Sunday serSt. Colman vice at 11 a.m., Tuesday prayer Notre Dame Church, 272 Main meeting at 7 p.m. Women’s Bible study meets the first and St., Durham, and St. Colman third Wednesday at 7 Church, 170 Hubbard St., p.m., Men’s Bible study meets Middlefield, 860-3493058. Mass schedule: Monday the second and fourth Wednesday at 9 a.m. and Tuesday 8 a.m. at Notre Dame; Wednesday and Friday 8 a.m. at St. Colman; Saturday See Faith, A6
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Seniors The Senior & Social Services Department is open Monday and Tuesday 8:30 a.m. to 3: 30 p.m. Wednesday 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Friday 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Medicare open enrollment: Through Saturday, Dec 7. Interested in exploring your options for Medicare plans? Make an appointment, 860349-7121. Energy Assistance: Applications are being accepted. The CT Energy Assistance Program is available to Connecticut residents to help offset winter heating costs. Schedule an appointment, 860-349-7121. No drop-ins. Setback: We have setback players interested in playing. Join us Tuesdays, 1 p.m.
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As we gather over holiday feasts this time of year, many of us choose to enjoy some holiday spirits. Before you ring in the New Year with friends and family, we ask that you resolve to enjoy responsibly and “Drink Wiser” this holiday season.
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Santa, you hear this a lot, but I’ve been good Dear Santa, Well, here we are again. Another year gone by. These years seem to have wings on them, don’t they? I so enjoy our annual letters, as I do see you as a lifelong friend. You were so good to me when I was a wee one. You brought me, over the years, sleds and flying saucers and ice skates and dolls that cried. You did not disappoint.
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Well, time has matured me, and, hopefully, made me better and wiser. I no longer use those tactics, being nice just before Christmas so that I can get presents.
Now I try to be nice all year long. Just because. I don’t always make it, but I like to think more often than not. I guess you know by now that the Missus wrote to me. Oh, isn’t this just so much fun! (I Of course, as you know, I hope the elves don’t feel left spent the weeks leading up out. I imagine I will get to your arrival trying to get around to them sometime.) on your “nice” list. Yes, I ad- She sounds like such a lovely mit, I was buttering you up. lady. I would love to meet In my defense, though, my her sometime. Perhaps we uncle used to tell me stories could bond over tea and, of how one Christmas he on- of course, cookies. However, ly received coal in his stock- my itinerary does not lean ing because you had put him toward any trips to the North on the “naughty” list. I found Pole in the foreseeable futhis to be a very disturbture. Maybe you could bring ing story. I didn’t want coal, her with you on Christmas so I made sure to be on my Eve, and she could just hang
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Advocates push for ban on flavored vaping products down almost since the day he first introduced it,” said Kevin O’Flaherty, an advoca“Everybody had high hopes cy director with the Camin September when the prespaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. ident announced a plan to “We are actively encouraging eliminate the sale of all flaboth the governor and the vored e-cigarettes, but clearlegislature in Connecticut to ly that plan has been in the consider addressing this isprocess of being watered sue.” Two months ago, as hundreds of people across the country contracted a mysterious lung disease linked to vaping, President Trump announced from the Oval Office that he would pursue a ban on most flavored e-cigarettes. The plan would have pulled flavored vaping products, including mint and menthol, from the market. The flavors
would not have been allowed back without specific approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Officials at the time said the policy was being finalized and that it probably would go into effect a month later. “We can’t allow people to get sick. And we can’t have our youth be so affected,” Trump said in September. He added that the first lady felt “very, very strongly” about the issue because of their 13-year-old son, Barron.
But last month, the president backed off his proposal, saying he didn’t want to move forward because he feared the prohibition would lead to job losses. He also
warned that a flavor ban could spawn more counterfeit vaping products. White House and campaign officials have said that Trump balked because he worried that angering Vape Shop owners and their customers might cost him at the polls next year. Supporters of a ban on flavored vaping and tobacco products are now pinning their hopes for swift action on state leaders. In November, the General Assembly in Massachusetts passed a sweeping prohibition on flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco goods, includSee Vaping, A9
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ernizing Connecticut’s aging highways and commuter rail system.
should be refined and passed in special session, most likely in January.
Gov. Ned Lamont and Democratic legislative leaders united last week behind a transportation financing concept that would rely on trucks-only tolls, a breakthrough for a governor whose own party had repeatedly frustrated his major first-year objective of mod-
Senate Democratic leaders, who had summarily dismissed Lamont’s two earlier proposals for tolls on all motor vehicles as politically unpalatable and rejected his characterization of transportation infrastructure as a crisis, endorsed the new approach and insisted it
“It is absolutely essential that we get this done,” said Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven. “There is a real crisis in our state that we cannot just delay any longer in terms of the needed reconstruction of our roads and bridges. We need to get this done now. We don’t want the issue to drag into the 2020 session. We think we have momentum on that issue, and the time to move is now.”
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With the Democratic governor and leaders of the Democratic legislative majorities agreeing on a transportation financing approach for the first time since Lamont made his initial proposal in February, their challenge is to fully develop what is now a detailed outline and convince their caucuses it is financially sound and politically defensible.
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Frustrated by the Trump administration’s retreat from a pledge to ban flavored vaping products at the federal level, anti-tobacco advocates are doubling down on a
push to enact a statewide prohibition in Connecticut.
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ing menthol cigarettes, which, if signed into law, would make Massachusetts the first state in the nation to bar all flavored vaping and tobacco products. The New York City Council also recently voted to outlaw all flavored e-cigarettes and e-liquid vaping products, including menthol. “In the absence of federal leadership on this issue, we are calling on state and local governments to take a comprehensive, evidence-based approach, and that includes clearing the markets of all flavored tobacco products,” said Ruth Canovi, director of advocacy for the American Lung Association in Connecticut. “We’re seeing more and more youth use electronic cigarettes.”
This fall, guided by grim statistics on youth vaping and a surge of lung illness cases in Connecticut, several lawmakers here vowed to explore barring flavored vaping products during the 2020 session, which begins in February. They renewed that promise as news of Trump’s reversal surfaced. “Clearly, this is something we should do if there is not going to be federal action on it,” Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney said. “I think there’s broad-based support for it. It should pass.”
“Flavored vaping is the thing that’s particularly geared toward the young. It’s really a Nationally, more than one in cynical manipulation to try to attract teenagers to use four high school students vaping devices,” he added. use e-cigarettes, according “It would make sense for us to federal data. Among that to do a ban at the state level group, 27.5% reported vapsince the federal governing during the previous 30 days, up from 20.8% in 2018, ment has once again failed preliminary results from the on a significant issue of pubCenters for Disease Control lic health.” and Prevention’s annual Na- The effort appears to have tional Youth Tobacco Survey some bipartisan support. show. Fruit, menthol and Senate Minority Leader Len mint were the most popular Fasano, R-North Haven, said flavors, with more than 60% he would back a flavor ban. of teens who vaped saying “It’s a health issue. We need they used them. to get rid of it,” he said. “I “There’s no need for flavor- don’t think it’s going to shut ing. We shouldn’t be making down those 24-hour gasothese products enticing,” line stations. They sell a lot said Bryte Johnson, director of different things. I just of government relations for think it is a sin, what’s hapthe American Cancer Socipening to our kids.”
Vape shop and other business owners across Connecticut have expressed concern about the idea. Lawmakers included a prohibition on flavors in their Tobacco 21 bill last year, but stripped it out before the measure passed the General Assembly. State Rep. Sean Scanlon, DGuilford, suggested legislators take aim at disposable e-cigarettes, so store owners and people who rely on vaping liquids to quit smoking aren’t unfairly penalized. “Kids are not walking into a vape shop and buying a $100 vaping device. They’re buying a quick-hit device,”
he said. “Those are the ones you get at a bodega or a gas station, like Juul or Blu. That’s what kids are buying.” Some longtime smokers trying to kick the habit rely on vaping products that would be outlawed under a widespread ban, Scanlon said. “I smoked for 15 years and my father died of lung cancer, so I’m pretty familiar with this. Guys like me or my dad who are smoking cigarettes, who may use ecigarettes to quit – we shouldn’t stop them from doing that.” Legislative leaders said there was no consensus yet on what might be included in a bill banning flavored vaping
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and tobacco products. Discussions will take place in the coming weeks. “All of those who were involved in the [Tobacco 21] legislation are planning to get together again to talk about what we want to do next year,” said Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, a cochair of the Public Health Committee. “Certainly, I would say there’s impetus to ban flavors. But I want to make sure that we’re really looking at the problems and addressing them directly.” Lawmakers and Gov. Ned Lamont pledged earlier this fall to take strong action as See Vaping, A12
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meeting at the Executive Residence that marked the end of the administration’s efforts to find a bipartisan approach to financing CT2030, the governor’s $21 billion list of transportation projects that he says can remake commuting life and spark economic growth over the next 10 years. “This plan works, and the numbers add up,” Lamont said. Rhode Island implemented the nation’s first trucks-only tolls last year, drawing a legal challenge from the trucking industry that is pending. Lamont proposed trucks-only tolls during the 2018 session, only to push for a broader plan once elected.
House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin, said Republicans are stoking fears about what could come next, rather than debate what Democrats are actually proposing. He warned the GOP alternative would leave Connecticut without the financial cushion to weather a recession, jeopardizing residents who rely on state services and poten-
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Each side accused the other of intransigence, and the exchange continued in an exchange of emailed statements.
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Taking turns standing before a fireplace in a formal living room at the governor’s residence, the legislative leaders quickly delivered a preview of how the plan will be promoted by Democrats and panned by Republicans in special session and during the 2020 campaign for control of the General Assembly.
“My question to them is why are they picking truck drivers over our middle class?” Aresimowicz said.
sire to tax people more,” Fasano said. “They want tolls, they want to borrow more, they want more tax revenue from Connecticut residents — on top of their new taxes on plastic bags and groceries. They do not want to work with Republicans to do what is truly best for our state and its residents. They want tolls. Period.”
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House Democrats resurrected the idea after the Senate balked at automobile tolls. “I think that the House has really shown us the way by coming out with the truckonly plan, which is in effect a return to a version of what the governor had proposed in the election last year and is in fact the only plan that is voter approved, given the virtue of the fact he was elected running on that proposal,” Looney said.
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open to any legislative language, including a constitutional amendment, clarifying that automobile tolls are off the table in Connecticut.
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In September, Lamont said he would consider a ban on flavored vaping products as part of a multi-state approach to regulating ecigarettes. The governor said he would look into what he could do by executive order, or press for the issue to be raised in a special session or during the regular session in 2020.
the number of Connecticut residents with lung illnesses climbed. To date, 39 cases of the disease have been reported to the state’s health department. One person has died. The CDC, which has logged 2,290 cases and 47 deaths nationally, has warned people against using THC-containing vaping products and against purchasing e-
Max Reiss, a spokesman for Lamont, said recently: “We think the best path, that’s
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the safest path, is through the General Assembly” in February. The governor is trying to avoid the kind of litigation that has happened in other states, he said. New York and Michigan, whose leaders used executive authority to impose flavor bans this year, have been sued by vape shop owners and e-cigarette manufacturers, undercutting those efforts.
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With some creative financing, the Democrats say they could come within $1 billion of the $21 billion spending goal of CT2030, even though truck tolls would produce an estimated $180 million, slightly more than half the $320 million projected in the plan Lamont released on Nov. 7. Lamont needs a dedicated revenue stream to obtain lowcost federal financing.
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Another element is a more modest version of the GOP alternative: Using some of the budget reserves to pay down pension debt, which would lessen the annual contributions now required. Lamont and Democratic legislators would tap between $250 million and $260 million earmarked for the budget reserves after Sept. 30, 2021. By then, according to projections by the administration and the legislature’s non-partisan Office of Fiscal Analysis, the reserves will exceed the statutory limit of 15% of operating costs, or about $3 billion. Once that threshold is crossed, excess reserves automatically are used to pay down pension debt. The GOP option would have transferred $1.5 billion from the rainy day fund into the pension fund immediately, allowing the state to reduce annual pension contributions by almost $130 million per year through 2030 and put those dollars into transportation.
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Gary Wodatch Landscaping. Hedge&tree trimming. Trim overgrown properties. Calls returned. #620397. 860-558-5430
JIMMY’S MASONRY J&M LANDSCAPE LLC Over 28 years of exp. Lawn cutting. Hedge Stonewalls, patios, trimming. Mulch & Stone sidewalks, chimneys, work. Sheds/driveways. pool areas, fireplaces, Stump grinding. Gutter fire pit steps, all types of cleaning. Senior/Vet discount. 860.349.8135. masonry work. Free est. (860) 274-4893. Free quote. Business Owner / Service Provider?
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Plumbing GEORGE J MACK & SONS - Servicing the Meriden area since 1922. Toilet, faucet, sink & drain repairs. Water heater replacements. 15% Sr citizen disc. Member of BBB. 203-238-2820.
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JM Lawn Care Fall clean-up. Snow Removal. Comm. & Residential. 860.796.8168
JT’S LANDSCAPING IF YOU Mention LLC - Fall clean Roofing.Siding.Gutters. ups: leaves raked, This Ad Yalesville Construction Skylights. Chimney Recleaning gutters, all FALL Yard Specializing in all phases pair. Flashing. #0649808 your Fall landscapClean-Ups of residential & ing needs. Residen- 203.510.3830. lmmasonBrush, branches, leaves, commercial roofing. tial, commercial at ryconstruction.com storm damage Reasonable pricing. Senior citizen discount **JUNK REMOVAL** #616311. Licensed Insured Free est. Appl’s, Furniture, Junk, & insured. Call JT’s 203-265-5200 203-213-6528 Debris, etc HIC#0631937 WE CAN REMOVE ANYTHING Advertise with us. Masonry Entire house to Siding 203-317-2312 1 item removed! ALEX MASONRY 30 yrs. FREE ESTIMATES exp. Patios, Ret. Walls, VINYL SIDING SPECIAL Sr. Citizen Discount Steps, Brick, Stone, Ranch’s, Capes $7,800. LIC & INS. Chimneys. #580443. Free est.Repairs. Lic & 203-535-9817 or 203-232-0257 or 203Ins. w/ ref. Hann’s On 860-575-8218 596-0652 860-563-2001.
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Tree Services Gary Wodatch LLC Tree Removal All calls returned. CT#620397 Quick courteous service. Office 203-235-7723 Cell 860-558-5430
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HOUSE CLEAN OUT SERVICES - Estate clean outs. Garage, basements and attics. Quick, courteous service. Free estimates. All areas. A B Property Management. (860) 828-0620
Demolition Svs Sheds, pools, decks, garages, debris removal. Quick, courteous svc. All calls returned. Ins. #566326. Cell, 860-558-5430
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