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Friday, July 22, 2016
Public hearing moves POCD another step By Mark Dionne Town Times
Just two days after the Durham Board of Selectmen encouraged the Planning and Zoning Commission to adopt the Plan of Conservation and Development, the P&Z held a Public Hearing to continue getting feedback about the document. After the Public Hearing, which was subdued by recent standards, P&Z Chair Frank DeFelice told the Town Times he expected the document to be approved at P&Z’s meeting on Wednesday, July 20.
High School Musical 2 Jr. Mary Kaliszewski (center) belts out a song from “High School Musical” during a break in rehearsal for “High School Musical 2 Jr.” at the Middlefield Community Center.
Middlefield Youth and Family Services, has become popular enough to fill two summer sessions. The first session performed three shows the weekend of July 15 and 16.
The summer theatre camp, run by community theatre group PaperHouse Productions and Durham
Mary, a cast member in both sessions, will play high school diva Sharpay Evans in the second session, perform-
ing Friday, July 29 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, July 30 at 1 and 7 p.m. at the Middlefield Community Center. The show is directed by Heather McCutchen of Durham, technically directed by Chris Balay of Durham, and produced by Town Times reporter Mark Dionne.
The document was written by the P&Z members. “They put the hours and the efforts in,” said DeFelice, “by and large they are satisfied.” The POCD, described as a “guidance document,” lays out a vision for a town’s future. Durham’s version is more than 100 pages long, and late. Connecticut requires a town’s POCD to be updated every 10 years. Durham’s deadline, which was already extended, expired on July 1. According to P&Z members, a letter has been filed with the state explaining that the plan is in process. Meetings regarding the POCD have been crowded, and See POCD, A24
Two bids get poor reception at Durham BOS meeting By Mark Dionne Town Times
Durham Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
At the regular meeting on July 11, Durham’s Board of Selectmen authorized a number of agreements with two of them raising concerns.
The grant language replaces what had been a contract and the agreement was a result of some negotiation. Selectman John Szewczyk said, “We’re caught between a rock and a hard place. I don’t like the way they treated us and threatened [to drop] us.”
The BOS voted to approve First Selectman Laura Francis signing a grant with Middlesex Hospital for paramedic services through the
The ambulance corps has been the subject of some
controversy in recent years. The non-profit organization receives money from the town, and some residents have complained that the organization should be more open with its finances because of the town support. Residents at meetings have questioned the organization’s funding and billing practices. The organization
A successful bid on a project to replace outdated guardrails raised questions at a recent Durham Board of Selectmen meeting. | Mark Dionne,
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Government Meetings Monday, July 25 Public Safety Facility Renovations Planning Committee, Durham Volunteer Firehouse, 7 p.m. Board of Selectmen, Town Hall, 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 26 Ethic’s Commission, library, 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 1 Fire Department Trustees, Durham Vol. Firehouse, 7 p.m. Historic District Commission, Durham Public Library, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2 Clean Energy & Sustainability
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Gem enthusiast Jim Smigel, of Durham, (back to the camera) teaches 4-H club The Wildlifers about gems and mining at a Haddam mine. From left: Geoff Picard (club leader), Nick Moran, Emily Picard (club leader), Maddie Gifford and Garret Basiel.
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field Youth & Family Services Summer Stock has scheduled a production of “High School Musical 2 Jr.” for Saturday, July 30, 1 and 7 p.m., at Middlefield Community Center, 405 Main St. A fee is charged. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, call 860-349-0258.
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Durham Middlefield Youth and family Services has scheduled the following programs. A fee is charged (unless noted) and registration is required. For more information, call 860-349-0258 or visit www.dmyfs.org.
Services – The Church of the Epiphany, Episcopal, 196 Main St., Durham, schedules Sunday worship service of the Holy Communion at 9:30 a.m. All people of faith are welcome.
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Prayer Group – The Church of the Epiphany, Episcopal, prayer group will resume in September.
Hands On With Science - Tuesday, Aug. 9, 9 a.m. to noon. Hands on science experiments. Pirates, Parrots & Planks - Wednesday, Aug. 10, 9 a.m. to Friday, Aug. 12, 2 p.m. Make a pirate costume, construct and design cardboard swords and cannons and design and build a pirate ship. The program is free; space is limited. Participants must bring a roll of duct tape, and bagged lunch for all three days. Registration is required.
United Churches of Durham Services - The United Churches of Durham, 228 Main St., schedules Sunday worship for the months of July, August, and Sept. 4 at 9:30 a.m. Holy Communion, open to all, is scheduled for the first Sunday of each month.
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Boys hoop committee seeks more competitive balance By Ken Lipshez Record-Journal staff
A CIAC boys basketball sub-committee has made a proposal for what it hopes will create a more equitable future by the changing the divisional parameters for the four tournaments. The proposal would scrap divisional structure based heavily on a school’s male population for one that weighs tournament success as a more decisive factor in an attempt to account for a system that most feel is tilted toward schools without borders, like parochial schools and magnet schools.
belong and make it an equitable tournament that gives everyone a shot,” said Cecchini, the athletic director at Suffield High from 1969 to 1984, the Connecticut AD of the Year in 1979 and a member of the National High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
The athletic directors are slated to meet sometime in August. The Board of Control is also scheduled to convene just before the new school year begins. For the second time in 12 years, proponents seek to scrap the Class format (LL, L, M and S) for divisional labeled 1, 2, 3 and 4. The committee would augment the population demographics with an expanded analysis on school’s tournament success over the past 14 seasons.
A similar plan was put into effect by the committee in 2004 that lasted three seasons. The system was based on a strength-of-schedule based power-point system that weighed heavily on wins over quality opponents, but it couldn’t be computed until after the final regular-season game was over. Some coaches admitted off the record that they tanked games after qualifying for the postseason in order to slide down
The plan also abides by the 2015 decision to balance the four divisions. “What I’m hoping is to put schools where we think they
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Middlefield bridge reopens By Mark Dionne Town Times
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Bridge repairs that required the closing of a section of Route 147 in Middlefield are moving ahead of schedule and the road was reopened on the evening of Tuesday, July 19. The well-traveled road was originally scheduled to open on July 28, nine days later. The closing allowed the replacement of the bridge A section of Route 147 in Middlefield temporarily closed for over Lyman Meadow Brook. a bridge repair reopened Tuesday. The section is adjacent The $1.25 million project is to Lyman Orchards, whose golf course and corn field are funded by the state as Route visible in the background. | Mark Dionne, Town Times 147, or Durham Road, is a
The state also made the decision to replace the bridge and controlled the repair schedule. The stretch of road is close to the intersection with Route 157 and Lyman Orchards. The detour ran from routes 157, 68 and 17 with the road behind the Apple Barrel closed to through traffic.
over the Coginchaug River, just a short distance south of the latest repair. In relaying the repair schedule, Middlefield First Selectman Ed Bailey wrote, “Kudos to D.O.T.’s contractor for completion of major construction at the Lyman Meadow Bridge ahead of schedule.”
The use of a prefabricated bridge made for a shorter repair time. There will still be The road closed on July 11. a period of repair that may The disruption of eight days is far shorter than the disrup- require alternating traffic in the area, but the road will not tion caused by the two-year project to replace the bridge be closed for it.
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I think if I was to total up the time I have spent being put on hold, when I was trying to reach some customer service, somewhere, about some matter, it would come to – and this is just an approximation – about a billion years. I have spent way more time listening to automated directions than talking to actual people. And I am always assured that someone will be with me in a moment, as my call is very important to them. I think they measure their moments in light years. By the time a person comes on the line, I am toying with the notion that there aren’t any actual people left on the planet, because surely one of them would have come to the phone by now. I get so frustrated, I just want to smash my phone down, or reach into the phone and throttle whoever set up these automated messages (You’ll be happy to know I do neither). I will be presented with a rather long list of options
to choose from, and none of them seem to apply to me. I wait patiently for my category to pop up, but it never does. Finally the polite automated lady (I’m going to call her Betty) tells me to press suchand-such button to hear those options again. And I do. But my category has still not made an appearance. So I press “O” because I have always heard that doing so will get you a real person. It does not. Because Betty will tell me, in no uncertain terms, that that is not an option. And she always apologizes. I’m sure she feels just horrible about it. At the point when I am ready to tear my hair out, and Betty’s, I finally press any button, whether it’s the right one or not. I have thrown caution to the winds! And yes, I may press a button that promises to connect me to someone who can advise me as to the best way to tune up my glockenspiel (I don’t have a glockenspiel), or how to get mouse droppings out of my chimney (I may have those), but I don’t care. It gets me a person. What’s even worse is when there are no buttons to press, but Betty (or Bob, Betty’s sidekick) is demanding an answer,
in real words. I find the whole affair stressful. I can never please that woman. She will, in that polite voice of hers, ask the reason that I’m calling. And that reason goes on for much longer than she would wish. So she cuts me short, and tells me, “in a few words.” “A few words” has never been my strong suit. I tend to ramble, and now Betty figures she needs to help me out, lest she be late for the next caller that she will drive to distraction. She resorts to giving me some suggestions, none of which seem to hit the mark, and all of which contain only four words. “But Betty,” I cry out, “I really need to explain this to you. I cannot sum up this situation in four words. Please hear me out.” She does not hear me out. And she keeps telling me I have made an incorrect response. So in an act of desperation, I will latch onto one of her suggestions, even though I am not in total agreement with it. And then she gets it wrong! I will say, “a question about my bill,” and she will chirp, “Okay, you want to book a flight to Yemen. Is that correct?” “No,” I almost scream. “I have a See Carr, A15
By Jim Bransfield Special to Town Times
American Legion Baseball has been one of the iconic youth baseball programs in America since its inception in 1925. For almost all of the 91 years of the program, it has been a game in which its tournaments have been nine-inning games (a.k.a. real baseball) and has been played – with some slight modifications – by Major League rules. All that is about to change and, for better or worse – and there are those who argue it is for the worse – Connecticut is leading the way. The most obvious change will be in the so-called state tournament – more on that nomenclature in a minute – which opened July 16 and concludes July 31. For all but the best-of-three series on July 29-31 that will determine the champion, all games will be just seven innings and will operate under Connecticut’s far more restrictive pitching rule (10 innings in four days) as opposed to the national rule of 12 innings in three days. At first blush this seems impossible. After all, under national American Legion Baseball rules, all state and regional tournaments are part of the national tournament, therefore all national rules must apply. That’s the way it has always been. Until now. “We spoke with nationals [Director Steve Cloud] and he told us that we could call the early rounds something else, like district tournaments, which some other states do,” said Connecticut Legion Baseball Director Craig Zimmerman. “So by calling it something other than a state tournament, we were told we could play seven innings with our rules.” In short, the state changed the name and – Voila! – it could do whatever it chooses with the games. So from a national See Bransfield, A9
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>> Bransfield Huh?
missed a couple.”
pitch counts.
Not only is the potential for abuse self-evident: “My kid has nine pitches left,” “No, he is all done!,” there is the reality that for many Legion teams – and many high school teams – kids keep the scorebooks.
Writer: “Yeah, I have him for four more.”
Finally, the high school, the Legion, AAU and the rest will all have different rules.
There is no choice. “We can’t afford to hire an adult to keep a scorebook,” one high school coach told me. “We have kids do it and how this is going to be policed is beyond me.” In Legion, the problem is exacerbated. Many Legion teams run their programs on a shoestring. It has one, maybe two coaches. By definition, a player will have to keep the scorebook. What often happens is one non-starter keeps a book, then in the fourth inning, said kid is put in the game and he hands the book to another kid.
I can also tell you this. This year Legion coaches have to report pitch counts in preparation for the rules change next season. Many of these numbers are made up out of thin air. Totally made up. I was told that. In some case, it is intentional, sort of an underground rebellion against the system. But in most cases, it’s just because coaches don’t have the time or the ability to produce accurate
No. Heck, the State Legion has a guy keep an electronic, computerized scorebook at postseason games. Last year during the Legion tourney, a writer asked the scorer how many pitches he had for a given pitcher. “I have him for 110, I think. But I might have
Sounds like the road is just about built. Jim Bransfield is a longtime contributor to Record-Journal publications. A retired teacher, Bransfield’s loves include road trips and writing about Connecticut high school sports.
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pitching is extraordinarily dangerous for young arms. The perspective, the only games injuries are severe, the injuries that are truly state tournament are widespread and certainly games are the final best-ofresponsible adults should do three between the two winners something to minimize damcoming out of South Windsor age to those young arms. and Middletown. The devil — make it the devils Some years ago the state — are in the details. Legion Commission, which No one can prevent some inapparently really, really loves juries. Injuries come with the tournaments, opened up the territory in each sport. But tourney to the majority of the teams, so now 40 of the state’s pitching places stress that, 75 or so teams qualify. The first sooner or later, cause injury. two rounds are single elimina- So reducing the number of pitches makes sense. tion, then it becomes double elimination through tourney’s Or so it would seem. end. I have had coaches tell me that There’s more. they hate pitch-count rules. They say it ties their hands, It seems that somewhere that kids are different, that someone decided that the some kids can throw more host team in each location, than others, that age is only will qualify for the first round tangentially related to all of of the state tournament. So this, and that – here’s the killer that means that South Windsor and Middletown, which is – they find it impossible with all the things they have to do to having a bad year, will get to play at least one postseason – I keep accurate counts. almost said state tournament, So what happens when a kid tsk, tsk! – game. reaches (according to the opposing coach) his pitch limit, Sound like high school? Yup, yet the home team coach and we all know how badly has the kid with seven fewer the sub-.500 teams do in the high school tourney. But all of pitches? this is merely moving pieces “We have a sub-committee around. looking into that,” said Zimmerman. “It might be that As Cub fans have been saying since forever, wait ‘til next year scorers have to check with when the dreaded pitch count each other at the end of each rules are the Laws of the Land. inning and if there is a difference, then the home team For starters, no one is arguing book might count, or maybe it that there is not clear, compel- would be an average between ling evidence that too much the two scorers.”
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A trip down memory lane at ‘Durham Heights’ gathering Top picture: Front row, from left: Sandy Wade, Marc D’Orvilliers, Anne D’Orvilliers. Middle row: Lucille Fallon, Meghan Fallon, Marilyn Zeeb, Ellen Donovan, Giles D’Orvilliers, Jean Chittenden, Janet Thompson, Doris Beach, Julie Hunt. Back row: Jay Chittenden, John Wade, Kathy Borelli, Bud Fallon, Danielle Caporossi, Sharon Wade, Mark Thompson. Bottom left: Lila Thompson. Bottom right: Kail Luby.
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>> Bids bills insurance companies for its services. According to the published budget, the town will spend $31,634 in fiscal year 20162017 on the Durham Volunteer Ambulance Corps. The town also approved an agreement to replace guardrails in Durham. The project could be worth as much as $47,000 per year for five years and was awarded to the Durham Fence Company, one of two bidders deemed qualified. Roger Kleeman, a Durham resident speaking outside of the meeting’s public comment portion, asked why the project did not go out to written bid. “Neither one of these are real guardrail companies,” Kleeman, who ran, unsuccessfully, against Francis two elections ago, said of the
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Welcome to On The Menu. Let us help you find the perfect place to eat.
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540 Washington Ave North Haven, CT (203) 239-5548 www.dinosseafood.com Dino’s, a family business has the highest quality seafood at reasonable prices. We offer eat-in or take-out and a private banquet room for any occasion.
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Welcome to On The Menu. Let us help you find the perfect place to eat.
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Find great local eats - MenusCT.com Green Olive Diner and Pizzeria Restaurant Town Line Square Shopping Center 477 S Broad St., Meriden, CT 06450 (203) 379- 0927 greenolivediner.com Green Olive creates a memorable dining experience for each guest. This comes from great cuisine, fine wine, comfortable ambiance and impeccable service.
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Durham Recreation Fun Run results: Week 3
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York - Melanie Frank of Durham.
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Library Briefs Levi E. Coe Library Library hours - Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; closed Friday and Saturday. Summer reading program Notary Public available, by appointment only.
Durham Library Library hours: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mystery Craft - The Durham Public Library has scheduled a Mystery Craft program for Aug. 9 through 31, 10:30 a.m. Parents and caregivers of children of all ages are welcome to drop-in to make a self-guided mystery craft. This program is free and open to the public. Programs for children Ready, Set...Science! Thursdays in July, 6 p.m. Grades K through 6. Join Miss Alex for hands-on science fun. No
registration. Krafty Kids - Aug. 1, 1 to 2 p.m., for ages 9 to 12. Book discussion and craft. Registration is requested. Durham Farmers Market Storytime - Thursdays, 5 p.m., on the Town Green. All ages welcome. Weather permitting.
players have a set amount of time to build on a theme before judging. Prizes warded. Registration is required.
Book Lovers’ Circle. Wednesday, Aug. 3, 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Henna Designs. Tuesday, Aug. 2, 6 to 8 p.m. Ages 12 to 18. Learn the origins of henna, get design applied by artist. Registration is required. Programs for adults
Exercise Your Mind. Wednesday, Aug. 3, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Coloring, Sodoku and crossword puzzles. Bring your own supplies or use the library supplies. No registration is required.
Programs for teens Minecraft Building Competition. Saturday, July 23, 1 to 4 p.m. Ages 11 to 18. Minecraft
Durham Farmers Market The Durham Farmers Market is scheduled for every Thursday through mid-September on the Durham Green, 3 to 6 p.m. Meghann Eckenhoff Nuzzo has been named as market master. A diverse
group of vendors plan to offer vegetables, fruits, flowers, spices, honey, Italian ice, shellfish, raw milk, yogurt and cheese, baked goods, breads, quiches, pies, kettle corn, and more. Weekly guest vendors
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question about my bill.” I’ll tell you, that girl is nothing if not entertaining. She comes back with, “Okay, you want to know the flight patterns of Canadian geese during the months of September through October. Is that correct?” At this point I feel like she’s just messing with me, probably out of sheer boredom. I am usually very nice to people and machines, but now I’ve got an attitude. I am rolling my eyes, throwing up my hands, and being quite snippy with Betty. I hope she gets the message.
Diana Carr, a resident of Durham, is the author of “Everyday Things: A Year of Reflec-
tion on Just About Everything.” This collection of her columns is available on Amazon. You can contact Diana at princessdi7@sbcglobal.net.
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Practice makes perfect in the bunkers By Tim Buczak Record-Journal staff
Confidence, feel, and trust are three words synonymous with great bunker players. The one thing I can assure you is that great bunker players have for practiced hours and hours honing this part of the game, while the weekend player may continue to be tortured by bunkers. After learning from the tips bestowed upon you today, you too will have to “practice” to improve. “What?” Yes, we all will, and that includes you too, Allen Iverson. Fundamentals set a golfer up for success and using those
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Five years after approval, cord blood program at a standstill By Kyle Constable Š The Connecticut Mirror
head of the committee responsible for the program. “It’s been a conscious decision not to proceed forward.�
Despite the passage of legislation five years ago that authorized creation of the state’s first public umbilical-cord blood collection bank, organizers say any state-sponsored effort to collect cord blood in Connecticut is at a standstill.
State officials first backed the program because of the medical opportunities cord blood offers. It contains stem cells that can be used in research or for transplants for people with diseases like leukemia and multiple myeloma.
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an effort to reach a certain diversity threshold in the blood types contained in the banks. But once the threshold is reached, he said, federal funding will probably be cut off, leaving them with few options to remain solvent.
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More importantly, Snyder said, that procedure tends to be significantly less expensive.
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Furthermore, Snyder said, advances in the medical field have resulted in less demand for specific cord blood types, which are far more numerous than typical human blood types. He said transplants with less-thanperfect matches, coupled with chemotherapy, can be nearly as effective as a
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“The idea that people in Connecticut would donate a cord and it would be used by people in Connecticut isn’t going to work because of the biology,” Snyder said, referring to the difficulty of finding a match for someone close to home. “Would the
state want to spend money to provide altruistic cord blood to someone in Nigeria, for example, or someone in Haiti?”
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One of the largest difficulties has been generating support for funding the program fully when nearly all of the beneficiaries would be outside of Connecticut – some even outside the United States.
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Coginchaug claims District 9 banner Coginchaug captured the District 9 (11-12) baseball title Thursday night, July 14 with a 12-2 victory over Guilford at Killingworth’s Sheldon Park.
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The win completed a dominant 7-0 run for the team, as it swept through district pool play and the double-elimination final rounds, outscoring opponents 66-23 in the seven games.
In Game 1, starter Francesco Marotta was virtually unhittable, allowing only an infield single in the final inning. The offense was led by Garofalo’s three hits, including two home runs, and timely hits from P.J. Casey-Leonard, Kevin Ryan and Alex Mach.
From there, Coginchaug swept East Hampton in consecutive games, 13-0 and 14-5.
Coginchaug began its run with a tough 1-0 rain-shortened victory over the host team, Killingworth. The locals received a dominant pitching performance from Mike Garofalo. Jeremy Mangiameli homered for the only run of the game.
In Game 2, Coginchaug erased an early deficit, its first of the tournament, behind the incredible defense of shortstop Connor Willet, who finished with six assists, and the bats of Garofalo (4 hits) and Carafeno, who homered.
Up next, Coginchaug downed Haddam, 6-0. The winners were powered by the battery of Chris Carafeno on the mound and Colin Murphy behind the plate, and solid defense by first baseman Garofalo and a pair of outstanding plays at third by Edward Fournier.
Coginchaug entered the double-elimination format District 9 finals as the No. 2 seed. Its opening game was a 9-8 win over Guilford, in an exciting back-and-forth battle. Coginchaug’s offense was powered by home runs from Mach, Garofalo and Carafeno (2), and a huge lead-off hit by Tyler Garretson, who scored on Garofalo’s homer at a key moment in the game.
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left-center field gap, scoring Murphy for the walk-off win. Earlier in the game, when Guilford had two men in scoring position and a tworun lead, second baseman Kevin Ryan made a highlight reel-worthy defensive play to keep the game close. Coginchaug then defeated defending champion and overall No. 1 seed Madison 11-8. Coginchaug jumped out to a 10-2 lead and never was threatened. Leadoff hitter Connor Willett reached base and scored four times in the first five innings. Mach, Garofalo (2) and Mangiameli all homered, and Fournier and Murphy had extra-base hits, with Murphy reaching base three times. On the hill, Carafeno led a gutsy performance from
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second inning, Coginchaug went on to mercy-rule Guilford 12-2 to take the district title.
Guilford defeated Madison in the losers bracket game to set up a rematch with Coginchaug in the championship game. Coginchaug jumped all over Guilford early, racing out to a fiverun first inning lead, highlighted by Rovelli’s two-out, bases-loaded single to score Murphy and Marotta.
Coginchaug advanced to the Section 3 tournament being played this week at Sheldon Park in Killingworth.
Garofalo then set the tone in the bottom of the inning, by striking out the side. He would eventually record 10 of the team’s 12 outs by strikeout. The other two outs were on outstanding defensive plays by Rovelli in his first game in the outfield, and Murphy at second base. After a rain delay in the
This was Coginchaug’s first 11-12 baseball title since 2013, and only its fifth ever in the 58-year existence of District 9 (1992, 2005, 2013 and the 1974 Middlefield LL team). Also, this summer marks just the second time in league history that both the 11-12 Coginchaug baseball and softball teams won district titles in the same year. The last time that happened was in 1992. — Submitted by Scott Strang
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>> POCD occasionally contentious, affairs over the issue of businesses within the Historic District of Main Street. The most recent meetings have been shorter and less emotional as the document itself encourages business growth generally and says that things such as Mixed Use have to be considered, but covers the town as a whole, not specific neighborhoods.
Chuck Stengel asked the commission to accept the document as originally written. “Nothing in this document should preclude things,” Stengel said. “I support the document as originally written.”
Parmelee said the town has historically accepted businesses on Main Street and should do so in the future. “Main Street is part of the community. It shouldn’t be exempt,” Parmelee said. “Don’t close the doors [to business] and don’t tell Rick Parmalee that there’s no Mixed Use on Main Street.”
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Some residents wanted clarification of the amendment attached by the BOS. Under the encouragement of Selectman Steve Levy, the BOS clarified that Mixed Use is allowed in commercial zones as long as the use is less intensive than commercial uses. The amendment also states that Mixed Use is allowed in parcels that already have an allowed business use – so-called “non-conforming parcels” – as long as further use is not more intensive than the previous use.
Eames said that a potential natural gas line project did not get mentioned in the report and that the town would benefit from better communication between the P&Z and the BOS.
Eames also took issue with the parts of the report detailing the areas with groundwater issues. That part omitted northern Tuttle Road. “The plume has moved and it’s affecting more of Durham. The town hall knows it and the state of Connecticut knows it,” Eames said.
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About 25 residents attended the July 13 Public Hearing and public comment lasted less than 45 minutes.
and not enough on natural gas. “Industry today is really into sustainability ... all of our systems are closed loop,” Eames said. “From an industrial perspective, we don’t need water, we don’t need sewer, but we need gas.”
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