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RSD13 proposed budget reflects cuts in state aid By Lauren Takores Town Times

As Durham and Middlefield create their annual budgets against the backdrop of cuts in state aid, Regional School District 13’s proposed operating budget for next year reflects a zero percent net change.

“It’s important to just stay the course,” said Superintendent Kathryn Veronesi at the school board meeting Feb. 14, which means backing off new initiatives and strengthening the curriculum and instruction already in place, she added.

penses of $36,819,319. The net operating budget, which is operating expenses minus revenue of $1.3 million, is $35,479,692. Expenditures come in at a negative of less than one percent due to lower revenues going into 201819 than in 2017-18.

The 2018-19 school year budget proposes total ex-

“We’ve looked at every line item possible and tried to

save anywhere we could,” said business director Kim Neubig.

of nearly half a million dollars in salaries and benefits, totaling $499,151.

The proposed budget eliminates some teaching positions due to declining enrollment, primarily in the high school. Nearly 76 percent of the budget is salaries and benefits. The budget proposes a decrease

Teaching staff reductions include 3.4 FTE in language arts among grades 7-12 and other FTE in art, family and consumer science, library media, music, physical eduSee Budget, A4

Finance panel members appointed by school board

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The Regional School District 13 school board appointed four members to a joint finance committee between the school district and its two towns on Feb. 14. Durham and Middlefield’s selectmen requested in December that the school board form the finance committee. Durham appointed two members Jan. 29 and Middlefield followed on Feb. 12 with two members. Monday, Feb. 12, Mercy High School basketball player Isabella Santoro netted her 1,000th career point in a road win over Hamden. Santoro, of Durham, is pictured with her coach Tim Kohs. Mercy rolled up a regular season record of 191 this winter and earned the No. 2 seed in the CIAC Class LL state tournament. Mercy opens tournament play Monday, Feb. 26.

The school board appointed two of its members, Christine Geraci and Phil Augur, See Finance, A4

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Saturday, Feb. 24 Dudley Farm – The Dudley Farm Museum, 2351 Durham Road, Guilford, is scheduled to make maple syrup Saturday, Feb. 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is free, donations are accepted. For more information, call 203-457-0770. Ice hockey – Lyman Hall/HK/Coginchaug vs. ShepaugLitch-Thom-Nonn. at Northford Ice Pavilion, 7:45 p.m.

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Monday, Feb. 26 60+ Club – The Durham 60+ Club and Travel is scheduled to meet Monday, Feb. 26, 1:30 p.m., at the Durham Activity Center, 350 Main St. Monthly activity table follows the meeting. Seniors from surrounding towns are welcome to join.

Friday, March 9 Theater – Mercy High School and Xavier High School are scheduled to present a production of “The Addams Family” on Friday, March 9, 7 p.m., at Mercy High School, 1740 Randolph Road, Middletown. A fee is charged. For more information and tickets, visit www.mercyhigh.com.

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and two community members, David Booth and Nima Patel. Booth, of Durham, is a nurse practitioner with two children attending John Lyman Elementary School. He has been involved with other school committees and

district and town governments talking about how to address cuts in state aid.

Patel, of Middlefield, is a CPA with has an MBA in finance management and has two middle school-age children.

State budget reductions have impacted both towns’ proposed budgets for next fiscal year, and will affect RSD13’s budget as the school district prepares for a zero percent change.

School board chairman Robert Moore appointed Augur as finance committee chairman.

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cation, social science and math. Additions include middle school reading and math interventionists, a middle school reading coach and a high school career counselor. According to district info, enrollment has declined 28 percent during the last 10 years and is forecast to continue declining so much so that closing another elementary school is on the table.

Closing the John Lyman school building would result in a reduction of $560,000 in net current expenditures per pupil. It is one of several options submitted by architectural consultants Silver Petrucelli the school board is considering.

in curriculum and instruction, meeting academic standards, including STEAM programs at CRHS. Also included is new accounting software and architectural and engineering studies. Operating services includes a decrease of $157,000 for transportation, due to fewer student outplacements.

“It would be just closing the building,” Neubig said, not losing the programming or people.

With the final payment made on the Brewster school roof, the debt service is left with $345,000. Administrators asked the school board

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achievements or changes, such as enrollment decreases. Due to state aid cuts and ECS reductions, the school district can reduce its MBR by $299,731. However, earlier this month the state Department of Education stated that additional governor holdbacks, which were announced in November, do not count as state aid reductions for the purposes of reducing MBR. The school district website has designated online space for people to give budget feedback. LTakores@record-journal.com 203-317-2212 Twitter: @LCTakores

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ESCONDIDO — Marjorie Kempnich Lyman, formerly of Middlefield, was born in Chicago in November 1925, the daughter of Henry and Florence Weidner Kempnich (the youngest of three girls.) She grew up in the Chicago area, and graduated from Mount Holyoke College, Phi Beta Kappa. She married Richard Lyman in February 1948, moving into the apartment in the "Big House" on the Lyman Farm Middlefield. After their son was born, they moved to Middletown then Oakville, Ontario, Canada and then back to Middlefield into the family homestead. In 2005, Richard and Marjorie moved to Escondido, California to be near three of their daughters. Richard passed away in June 2007 after they celebrated 59 years of loving marriage. Marjorie will be remembered as a loving wife and mother and kind friend. She loved the Lord Jesus and participated actively in church fellowships and bible study. She and Richard ran the Honeycomb Gift Shop at The Apple Barrel for many years. She was pre-deceased by her sisters: Jane Groves and Gerry Leary and her

parents and her stepmother Thelma Kempnich. She is survived by her children, Stuart (Jane) Lyman, Nancy (Gene) Martorana, Jane (Andy) Levin, Carol (Bob) Behm and Judith (Dan) Smith; and her delights, nine grandchildren, Jamie Lyman (Derek) Gingerich, Carrie and Tom Lyman, Lindsay Levin (Andrew) Koskela, Sarah Behm (Tony) Keller, and Mark (Jennifer) Behm, Greg, Katie and Erin Smith, and five great-grand children. Marjorie left this earth for her heavenly home peacefully on Jan. 24, 2018 in Escondido. John 5:24 promises "Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life." In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations to Connecticut Radio Fellowship, Inc 1933 South Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457. This was one of Marjorie's favorite radio stations, which she supported. The immediate family will hold a private gathering on May 26 followed by the internment at the Middlefield cemetery.

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influenced by her early experience as a violinist. It was as an artist that she focused her entire working life. Over the years, Ty’s art was displayed in numerous Connecticut shows and around the country; currently, some of her work is in a two-year traveling art exhibit. Anyone who has seen her work has appreciated the scope and depth of her vision and ability. Often Ty referred to herself as an artist "right down to the tip of every finger." Her involvement in her work was meditative. Visit her website at tyzemelsky.com. Ty’s commitment to art was rivaled only by her love for her family; her presence at family gatherings will be painfully missed. Ty's seven grandchildren are fiercely devoted to their Grammy/Gerr, and her love for them was epic. Ty was a teacher of wisdom; her clever humor and belief in humanistic values made her someone to be listened to. Hers was a life well spent on love and creativity. A final art show will be hosted in early May at the family residence. The "Ty Zemelsky Rising Artist Scholarship Fund” has been established to benefit a deserving CRHS graduate to support further studies. Donations may be mailed to 54 Fowler Ave. Durham, CT 06422.

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DURHAM — Ty Zemelsky, 68, of Durham died on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018 (from now on referred to as St. Valen-Ty's Day) after a short but heroic encounter with cancer. Her parting leaves a great hole in the lives of her large and loving family, starting with her husband of 37 years, David, and including three adult children and seven grandchildren: Aaron Torrison, of Killingworth with his wife, Maggie and their three children, Hartley, Sven and Isabella; Sarah Quell Zemelsky Torrison Aceto, of Middletown and her two children, Skye and Shiloh; and Rye Zemelsky, of Northampton, Mass., with her wife, Lauren and their two children, Frida Rex and Louise Jett. Ty had two sisters: Brin Quell, of Chatham, N.Y., and the late Lynn Horowitz, of Albany, N.Y.; daughters of the late Vivian Lyttle and Harold Quell. Ty grew up in Rochester, N.Y. Her education led to a BA from Trinity College and a Ph.D from the Union Institute in Studio Art. Ty and David moved to Connecticut from Vermont in order to co-manage Powder Ridge Ski Area for 10 years. Ty also served on Regional School District 13’s Board of Education for several years and taught studio arts at Middlesex Community College. However, if she were writing her own obituary, Ty would want to focus on her life as a visual artist, which was

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COMMENTARY

Clearly, there’s a problem with my birth certificate presents! (I will never be the person who says don’t get me anything. I would love it if you would get me something.) So that’s a given. My boys will call. That’s always the best part. My lifelong friend always gives me a ticket to the Goodspeed Opera House for my birthday, and it’s a magical night, with fine entertainment, and the two of us acting like Well, it’s that time of year again. Yes, now been thinking about the various giddy teenagers again, on the way that’s right, it’s almost Birthday ways and means that I will be living and back. Month for yours truly, and I’m afraid life to the fullest at this hallowed I will be prattling on about it at time. (I know, I should be doing that And speaking of that lifelong friend. I had told her some time ago that I all year long. I’m working on it.) length. want a party. I have known her since This should come as no surprise to I intend to spend time with some of we were both 10 years old, so I feel my favorite people, for starters. I’ve you. And if you haven’t done so alentitled to such boldness. ready, please circle March 29 on asked two of my friends to pop in for Now, I don’t want to get ahead of your calendar right now. I’ll wait a visit. We’ll prop up our feet and myself here, but she and her hubby snack on some delectables and here. always spend the winter in Florida, drink tea, and swap stories and The number shocks me, as it always laugh until our sides hurt. And I not coming back until April. But this does. I must fish out my birth certifi- have told them that this must be in year they’re coming back the end of cate because I am sure that someMarch. Be still, my beating heart! March, not February, which is debody made a grave error. But though cidedly not Birthday Month. Could there be a party in the offing? I may not be in love with the numI’ll try to act surprised. ber, I am so in love with the celebra- Another friend, with whom I meet I’ll be like Velcro, collecting all tions! Which, as indicated by the for lunch at ION several times a year, has recently told me that she is things fun to myself, for every one of term Birthday Month, will kick off those 29 days. But the big question ready for another lunch. Yep, you on March 1. is, “What to do on the big day?” I alguessed it. Let’s do it in March. The 6-year-old in me will, on that ways plan to do something brave, Two other friends and I celebrate fortuitous day, tack up the annual but I never do. You know, to set a our birthdays with lunch at G-Zen, countdown: 28 more days! Like I’d precedent for the rest of my life. forget! And I have for some time my favorite restaurant. And there’s I have, for several years now, tin-

Library Briefs Levi E. Coe Library Library hours - Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Closed Friday. Storytime – Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. Drop-in. Twinkle Toes – Drop-in program for toddlers and pre-K. Thursdays, March 15, April 19 and May 17. Snapology program – Saturday, April 21, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dropin, all ages. Expressive Painting with Katherine – Saturday, Feb. 24, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Drop-in. All ages. Monday Night Book Club – Monday, Feb. 26, 6 p.m. “The Sense of an Ending” by Julian Barnes. Senior Center Book Club – Tues-

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Adult programs Library hours: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday Black Bears in Connecticut. Wednesday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m. Disand Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. cussion of Connecticut’s native Children’s programs black bears. Registration is reToddler Drive-In. Tuesday, March quested. 6, 10:30 a.m., ages 2 and up, with Irish Music concert. Monday, adult. Registration is requested. March 5, 6:30 p.m. Celtic fiddler Deirdre McMorrow and guitarist Leaf Litter Critters Book Launch Party. Wednesday, March 14, 6:30 Paul Pender. Registration is required. p.m. Meet author Leslie Bulion. Registration is requested.

kered with the idea of a zip line or a float tank. I’ve pretty much put the kibosh on the zip line. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, since I am no lover of heights. Or speed. The float tank sounds safe enough, if I can squelch the mild claustrophobia (which would not be so mild if I was ever stuck in an elevator, which is why, unless it would be 42,000 steps, I take the stairs). I am of the understanding that it’s a room, not a tank. A tank definitely would not do. You’d be able to hear the screams from the next county. But people tell me they experience utter peace. I want utter peace. I think I will stop by sometime and take a looky-loo, to see if I will be able to muster up the courage for such a thing. If I don’t faint dead away, we may be on. Well, let’s just hope the folks in the records department at St. Raphael Hospital realize that they made a terrible mistake and that they send me my real birth certificate, which, of course, reveals an age that is significantly lower than what they would have me believe all these years. (I figure they’re off by at least 10 years. Maybe more.) But meanwhile, while I am waiting for the amended documents, I am going to enjoy the ride. Every moment of it. It’s almost Birthday Month!

Middlefield Democratic Committee news The Middlefield Democratic Committee has scheduled a meeting to give the public the opportunity to meet with Democratic candidates who plan to seek state offices in 2018. The forum is an opportunity for the public to meet candidates, listen to their views and ask questions. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 13, 7 p.m., with exploratory Gubernatorial candidate Sean Connolly, former State Commissioner of Veterans Affairs, at the Middlefield Community Senior Center. For more information, visit middlefieldctdems.org.

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Letter to the Editor Praise for student newspaper

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To the editor: The latest issue of Coginchaug's student-run newspaper, the Devil's Advocate, was outstanding. The entire section had wonderful articles on so

But what struck me the most were the ones on topics not typically covered by the Town Times; acceptance of the LGBTQ community, hate and the issues tied to the confederate flag, the efforts of the ECO club and local environmental issues, disability

acceptance and several other wellwritten and well-researched articles. Knowing that our youth care about these issues, and feel it necessary to publish their findings, gives me hope that we are raising these students to be good stewards of our future and to fight injustice.

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Soup & Salad luncheon – The Durham Senior Citizen's board has scheduled a soup & salad luncheon for Friday, March 2, noon to 2 p.m., at the Durham Activity Center. The program features multi-instrumentalist Steve Dedman. The event is free to seniors of Durham and Middlefield. For more information and reservations, call Jaclyn at 860-3493153. Pool – Seniors interested in playing pool are welcome to come to the Durham Activity Center on Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. For more information, call Sherry at 860-343-6724 or Jaclyn at 860-349-3153. Lunch - Hot lunch is served Mondays and Wednesdays at noon at the Durham Activity Center. For more information and reservations, call 860-349-3153.

Middlefield Senior Center St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon – Wednesday, March 14, at noon. For more information and to register, call 860-3497121. AARP Driver Safety Refresher Course – Thursday, March 1 at Middlefield Community Center. A fee is charged.

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Bridge players - Bridge games are scheduled for Thursdays and Fridays, 12:30 Senior lunches - Mondays, to 3:30 p.m., at the Senior Center. Knowledge of how to Wednesdays and Fridays. play bridge is required. Meals provided to residents of Middlefield and Durham, Setback and cribbage – Per- 60 years and older. Call Sue sons interested in playing D’Orvilliers, 860-349-7121. setback or cribbage should Food Bank – The food bank come to the Middlefield Community Center. is in need of snack foods, such as Goldfish, crackers, Knit2gether – Do you know snack bars, cereal and pasta how to knit? Are you intersauce. ested in learning new skills? The Knit2gether group Blood pressure screenings meets Thursdays, 9 a.m., at Free blood pressure screenthe Middlefield Community ings are scheduled for the Center. second Wednesday of each month at the Community Activity bus – The MiddleCenter. field and Durham Senior Activity Bus is for all seniors in Senior, Social Service hours Middlefield and Durham. Monday through Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; New ideas for trips and venues are sought. Contact Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sue D’Orvilliers at 860-3497121 or Jaclyn Lehet at 860349-3153.

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Electric supplier’s license to be revisited after complaint By Mike Savino Record-Journal staff

Texas-based Spark Energy to be a third-party energy supplier in Connecticut. While residents must have their electricity delivered by Eversource or UI, state law allows them to choose to purchase that power from a third-supplier supplier.

The Public Utility Regulatory Authority voted Friday, Feb. 16 to revisit its decision to license a third-party electricity supplier, a move prompted by a complaint earlier in the week from state Sen. Len Suzio, R- Meriden.

A spokesman for Spark said in a statement that the company “intends to work with PURA to resolve this matter.”

PURA also requested data from Eversource and United Illuminating on the electronic transfer of billing information. A PURA spokesman declined to say why the agency is seeking the data.

Suzio filed a complaint with PURA accusing both Eversource and Spark Energy of providing misleading pricing information on his monthly bills.

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“Frankly, you can point the finger at everybody — they’re all to blame,” Suzio said. Suzio filed a complaint with PURA stating his bills contained inaccurate or misleading information. His monthly Eversource bills would indicate the supply charge in his next bill would be 7 cents per kilowatt hour, but he was then charged 12.99 cents per kilowatt hour. He noticed the discrepancy for six months. In a letter to PURA, Suzio urged the agency to investi-

gate Eversource for “knowingly disseminating information to thousands and thousands of ratepayers on their electric bill.” Eversource spokesman Mitch Gross said the problem, however, is with Spark Energy. Gross said third party vendors are responsible for putting their pricing information in an electronic billing system. “The third-party suppliers are entirely responsible for their rate,” he said. “They’ve chosen to do business here, and part of that responsibility is making sure that the information is provided in an

accurate and timely manner.” Gross said that Suzio is among the roughly 28 percent of Eversource’s customers that have opted to purchase electricity from a third-party. He added Eversource will cooperate with PURA’s data request. Suzio said Eversource should review the bill and make sure the information is accurate. “You’re the one that’s disseminating this erroneous information,” Suzio said. “You know it’s not reliable, and it’s on your bill, not on somebody else’s bill.”

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