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Concern over Main Street crosswalk By Mark Dionne
push buttons on either side of Main Street for a pedestrian crosswalk. A push button The long awaited stop- crosswalk is a standard comlight has been installed, but ponent when a traffic light is not activated, at the inter- installed at an intersection on section of Main Street and a busy street with legal pePickett Lane in Durham. It destrian traffic. At the Feb. 10 Board of is scheduled to be turned on just as Pickett Lane is closed Selectmen meeting, the in the spring for a months- Durham selectment voted long construction project. unanimously to remove the Along with the stoplight, the push button controls and Connecticut Department of prevent a crosswalk from Transportation installed two going in at that intersection. The potential crosswalk would have connected the sidewalk on the eastern side of the street with the western side, where there is no sidewalk, not A newly installed pushbutton call signal much of a for a crosswalk at the intersection of Main walking lane in the road, Street and Pickett Lane is surrounded by and a steep snow.| (Mark Dionne/Town Times) Town Times
embankment on the other side of the curb. “I don’t think it’s the right design for that area,” said Durham’s Emergency Management Director Francis Willett at the Feb. 10 meeting. “My recommendation is to have that area deemed a no pedestrian zone with the exception of the sidewalk.” At recent Durham Board of Selectmen meetings, town officials have expressed concern that the walk signal would encourage pedestrian traffic to an area not safe for pedestrian traffic. According to First Selectman Laura Francis, eliminating the push button controls is not as simple as it sounds. “We can choose to eliminate that crosswalk, but it would require us to make a decision as the local traffic authority to make pedestrian crossing at that intersection illegal,” Francis said at the See Crosswalk / Page 7
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WELCOME TO DISTRICT 13
Brewster Elementary School students rolled out their version of the “red carpet” for Dr. Kathryn Veronesi, District 13’s new superintendent recently. Each student signed their name and made a small picture to welcome Veronesi to the school. Pictured with the superintendent are second grade students, who rolled out the red carpet: Abby Meliso, Julia Marino-Sekoll, Erin O’Connell and Clayton Wiseman. | (Submitted by Patti Checko)
Help Middlefield celebrate its big birthday A message from the First Selectman It’s party time — in 2016 Middlefield will celebrate its 150th birthday. It’s called a sesquicentennial. The fact is that our town is quite young by world standards where many towns are thousands of years old. So, what’s my point? It’s time to get ready to celebrate
We need to start planning for the party of all parties. We need a representative from each and every organization and board in Middlefield/Rockfall. Churches, library, fire department, historical society, old home days committee, sports, scouts, Lake Beseck, parks and rec, k club, business and indus-
try, garden club, Red Hatters, senior center, DMYFS, our commercial and industrial inhabitants — let’s get everyone on board. It is never too early to start planning. Usually Old Home Days is celebrated every two years and is next scheduled for 2015, so we’ll have to discuss
how this will fit in with plans to celebrate the 150th. It’s not out of the question to have a week or two of celebration with a wide variety of venues. Nothing is off the table. Soon, the board of selectmen will pass a motion to pledge See Celebrate / Page 6
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In a page 1 story that ran in the Town Times, Feb. 7, Ty Zemelsky’s relationship to Star Light Gardens owner David Zemelsky was incorrect. She is his wife as well as co-owner and co-manager of the farm. Also, attribution for the photo was incorrect. It was taken by Ty Zemelsky.
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This entire loop is fairly flat, and the entrance features generous parking that is free, except for when swimming season begins. This is a 20 to 30 minute adventure. If you’re intimidated about going off the beaten path, try Hubbard Park in Meriden. If you park at the bottom area, there is an excellent uphill walk along a fully paved road up the Castle Craig and back down. From the peak of Castle Craig, a stone tower with a metal staircase inside, you can see for miles in every direction. Set aside an hour and a half for the trip to have time to enjoy the summit. To see another impressive stone structure, you can take the Tower Path at Sleeping Giant, which is a bit more difficult than the above trails. It is, however, nothing compared to the challenge offered by the blue trail, which includes rock faces at steep enough angles that most hikers will find themselves on all fours to ascend the path. Safety is important, but don’t let worry about risk stop you from giving hiking
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Last year alone, volunteers put a total of 18,000 hours into trail maintenance, which includes routine brush clipping by volunteers who choose to adopt small sections of trail as well as larger projects taken on by bigger groups, including sawing and moving downed trees, building bridges or boardwalks in wetlands, and other tasks. All volunteers are trained by the Forest and Park association to help make sure trails meet standards for a good hiking experience. There are many flat, easy trails in the area that are good for beginners. In Middlefield, Wadsworth State Park’s main (orange) trail is very well maintained, mostly flat, and has excellent sights to see, including a giant laurel tree and a large stone bridge. The trail even has a couple of benches where visitors can rest and enjoy the scenery. A marginally more challenging detour featuring a few hills that are more challenging to navigate safely will take you to the Little Falls, which stretches majestically to approximately 40 feet high. A great beginner loop is to take the orange trail, turn left on the blue trail, turn left again on the red trail, and left back out to the park entrance.
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Thunder bested by 11 Coginchaug struggled from the charity stripe and came up short, 41-30. Derek Grant led the way for the Thunder with nine points, Justin Penney added five and Max Temple chipped in with three.
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The Coginchaug Little League Board of Directors recently held its open house at the Middlefield Community Center. Many new Little League players, families and new coaches signed up the 2014 spring season. Several minor and major baseball players signed up for the pitching clinic, scheduled for the first weekend of March. Many players posed for photos with “Rocky” from the New Britain Rock Cats. For more information about Coginchaug Little League, visit www.coginchaugll.org. | (Submitted by Michele Wenchell)
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Star Lake Gardens rebuilds after Nemo with added reinforcement rods, are being built using funds from the Emergency Plant Grant. “We did what we could with what we had,” Zemelsky said. Gov. Dannel Malloy’s office reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture received reports of more than $10 million in losses due to inclement weather last year. “We definitely want to give due credit to the state,” David Zemelsky said. The Zemelsky farm, Star Lake Gardens, is USDA certified organic. Inside one of the hoop houses, 40 degree cold weather on the outside is turned into warmth. Zemelsky describes the environment
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Contrary to popular belief Valentine’s Day was not created by the combined efforts of the Hallmark greeting card company, FTD florists, and the chocolate truffle industry. It came about from the story of a priest in third century Rome, named Valentine. As the story goes Emperor Claudius II (known behind his back as “Claudius the Cruel”) was waging several difficult military campaigns. He believed that soldiers fought better if they had no families at home; hence he forbade young men to marry. Valentine, believing that young people should not only marry but also have God present in their relationship, secretly married couples defying Claudius. For this he was executed (by decapitation) in 269 A. D. Before dying he sent a letter to a blind girl he had been praying for and signed it “from your Valentine.” The rest, of course, is history; and a piece of history that no self-respecting entrepreneurial greeting card company could possibly ignore.
Today marriage seems to be in a state of disrepair. There is such a high rate of divorce that first marriages are sometimes called “starter” marriages. There’s strong social debate on civil unions and same sex marriages. Young people often fear that marriage may ruin their relationship. At any rate no one thinks marriage is easy, especially whoever wrote the wedding service: “for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health…” Perhaps St. Valentine, in support of marriage, might say love needs to be more than just a warm fuzzy feeling for someone. After all it’s as easy to get a warm fuzzy feeling about someone as it is to make yourself yawn. Love requires a decision of the will, an intentional, determined choosing of another that will help both get through the “better or worse” parts of their future. Valentine’s Day may have become one of the secular world’s high holy days, but it’s also a good time to think about the peculiar power of love. Love is both the strongest and weakest force in the world. It’s strong enough to conquer that most impreg-
nable of fortifications, the human heart; yet it can only do so with the consent of the conquered. Love can breach a wall, but can do so, not by its own strength, but only at the invitation of the one whom the wall defends. Love has a strange arithmetic to it. You see this at every wedding. One person plus one person does not equal two persons. When two people give themselves away in love to one another it creates a new life-form, a new being that equals much more than two. My math skills never got me past Algebra 101 so don’t ask me how it works. It just does. Being a preacher I’m tempted to say it has something to do with holiness and that love is of God. On the other hand it might be wise to recall Charlie Brown who said, “All you need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
Durham Middlefield Youth and Family Services has money available for Durham, Middlefield or Rockfall residents under 21 interested in developing a project/event based on creative expression. DMYFS has allocated $600 to fund projects based on the ideas. Interested youth must attend a Mini-Grant Workshop, scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 27, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at DMYFS, 405 Main St. Registration is required by calling (860) 349-0258. Completed applications are due by Tuesday, April 1. The Review Committee will announce the awards by April 29. Project/activity needs to be completed by Sept. 1. For more information, contact Durham Middlefield Youth and Family Services at (860) 349-0258.
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Jan. 27 BOS meeting. “We would have to make it illegal and then we would have to enforce it,” “We’re talking about having a crosswalk to nowhere,” Selectman John Szewczyk said at the Jan 27 meeting. Common sense, Szewczyk said, dictated that the crosswalk shouldn’t be there. Francis read state traffic regulations to the BOS indicating that the town could get the push button removed by declaring the road unsafe for pedestrian crossing at that spot, a declaration that would then require “No Pedestrian Crossing” signs.
The crosswalk running north-south across Pickett Lane, one of the busier streets in Durham, would still be legal for pedestrain crossing. That crosswalk did not get a push button control because it is a private road owned by the school district. There are two other crosswalks on this stretch of Main Street, one to the north at the Church of the Epiphany and one to the south at Old Cemetery Road. Pedestrian safety on this stretch of Main Street has been an issue in the past. In September 2002, in this area, a 15-year-old from Meriden was struck and killed by a car in the after dark traffic of the Durham Fair.
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DURHAM — William Stender, 85, of Durham and Middletown, husband of the late Lorraine (Carey) Stender died Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014, at Middlesex Hospital. He was born in Durham the son of the late William R. Stender and Adeline (Rich) Stender. Prior to his retirement Bill worked as a machinist with Standard Knapp. Although being a machinist was his primary occupation Bill was a jackof-all-trades, and some may say a master of more than a few. He was a veteran of World War II serving with the U.S. Navy. He was active with the Durham Little League and is an honorary member of the Durham Volunteer Fire Department. He is survived by two sons, Douglas Stender and his wife, Bonnie, of Durham, and William Stender and his wife, Kathy, of North Carolina; a daughter, Beverly Boutillier and her husband, John, of East Hampton; a brother, Edward Stender, of Cromwell; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren; also several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by four brothers, Maynard, Harry, Earl, John; and three, sisters, Ruth, Catherine and Rose. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Feb. 22, at 11 a.m. at Biega Funeral Home 3 Silver St., Middletown. Friends may call at the funeral home prior to the service from 10 to 11 a.m. Burial with military honors will be held in the spring at Burr District Cemetery in Haddam. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Durham Volunteer Fire Department PO Box 154 Durham, CT 06422 or Coginchaug Little League P.O. Box 34 Durham, CT 06422. To share memories or express condolences online please visit www. biegafuneralhome.com.
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It ’s b e e n a long time since I’ve taken a test of any significance, unless you count customer satisfaction surveys, which Jeffrey Kurz I don’t. I always get hung up on “somewhat satisfied.” Aren’t you either satisfied or not? I’ve been intrigued by the Smarter Balanced Assessment, which is to replace the Connecticut Mastery Te s t and C o n n e c t i c u t Ac a d e m i c Performance Test. I had my fill of CMTs when my children were being tested every time they turned around, so I won’t be sad to see them go. The new method is an improvement of sorts, using dynamic testing in which the question that follows changes according to the answer that preceded it. But good use of technology will alone not do
the trick. What’s no good is the ever-increasing emphasis on testing and the pressure put on teachers to teach for the test. This pressure may be well intended, but it’s woefully misguided, and has more to do with government and politics than what ought to go on in a classroom. The most difficult challenge confronting schools and school systems is culture, as in establishing and maintaining an atmosphere in which learning is cultivated and admired. The challenge gets harder the higher up in the grades you go. You want your school to be a place where it’s cool to be smart, or to want to be. You don’t want students to feel like they have to play dumb because otherwise they’ll face ridicule from their peers. You don’t want young people to hide their aspirations, you want to inspire aspiration. That’s no easy feat. You want your school to be a place where students learn how to learn, to learn how to study and teach themselves,
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because ultimately what you learn on your own, following your own ambition, is what will become the most valuable to you. You just need somebody to help you figure out how to do it. That somebody is your teacher. This is ancient history, but if you talk to people who went to my high school, roughly from a decade or so before my time to a couple of decades after, the name of one teacher inevitably comes up. Let’s call him Mr. X, just for fun. Mr. X was an English teacher, and he went off the trolley so often you didn’t realize there was a trolley. But his tangents were the stuff of true learning, because they illustrated the magnificent experience that is the exploration of the mind. As you followed Mr. X as his points about literature went off in all directions, you began to feel not only that you wanted do the same, but that you could do the same. It probably goes without saying that today’s educational climate leaves precious little room, if any at all, for such a teaching approach. Yet Mr. X and his influence, and not test scores, is what lingers; it’s what people remember, all these years later. The emphasis on Smarter Balanced Assessment and Common Core State Standards is helping replace exploration with rote response. But students are not robots. This is what a West Hartford teacher, Elizabeth A. Natale, was getting at in a recent opinion piece that, as they say, went viral. “... government attempts to improve education are stripping the joy out of teaching and doing nothing to help children,” she wrote. When teachers like her start thinking about leaving the profession, it’s time to take notice. See Satisfied / Page 13
How to make chores fun By Amy Flory
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It’s winter. I know this because I am constantly hiding under a blanket, and the chances of my kids going to school have diminished significantly. No one wants to play outside in this bitter cold, even with the lure of fresh snow, and our house seems smaller. So much smaller. Days inside with my family can be wonderful. We quietly read books, the kids are entertained with their new Christmas toys, and I have made and frozen more soup than my freezer can handle. Future me will love all of the easy dinner options waiting for busy days when I don’t have time to cook, or if that nasty bug that’s going around finally hits our home, we’ll have hot, soothing soup on hand that just needs reheating. I really do enjoy a snow day, but after a while, we grow weary of these quiet tasks. There are only so many video games that I feel comfortable letting my children play, and the same goes for the television they love so much. At times like this, I get creative. Our home wears the tell-tale signs of a mother who doesn’t love to clean, and children who
adore making messes, and sometimes it gets to be too much. My k i d s Amy Flory will cheerfully vacuum, dust, and empty the dishwasher, but only if they’re in the mood. If they aren’t, we make a game of it. My four-year-old likes to sweep, but our regular broom is too bulky for her. I have taken a few of the sections off of the handle of our Swiffer sweeper, making it the perfect size for her to push around the house, picking up dust and dog hair from the flat floor surfaces. She loves it, and gets so excited to see all of the gunk on the microfiber pad when she’s done, which is always plentiful. We ice skate around the hardwood floors, the kids wearing old tube socks that are now dust rags on their feet, and the floor wet with a vinegar and water cleaning solution. They run and slide, they spin and scoot, and I follow behind with a larger, more absorbent cloth to catch the many spots they miss. For basic tasks that are hated by the kids, like picking up toys and putting away See Chores / Page 12
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Middlesex County Historical Society has scheduled a program on Cuban underground freedom fighter for Tuesday, Feb. 18, 7 p.m., at the Russell Library, 123 Broad St., Middletown. Victor Triay, author of “The Unbroken Circle” a trilogy of historical fiction set in the early years of the Cuban Revolution, is
scheduled to speak. The program is f re e a n d open to the pubic. For m o re i n Victor Triay formation, call the Historical Society at (860) 3467-0746.
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Wednesday, Feb. 12 Planning & Zoning, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18 (Unless otherwise Board of Selectman, 7 p.m. indicated, all meetings are held in the Durham Library. Wednesday, Feb. 19 Inland/Wetlands, 7 p.m. Check the town website at www.townofdurhamct.org for Wednesday, Feb. 19 Planning and Zoning, updates.) Library, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18 Thursday, Feb. 20 Town Green Tree Design Board of Finance, 7 p.m. Committee, Town Hall, 5 Durham Middlefield p.m. Interlocal Agreement Board of Finance, Advisory Board, Town Hall, 6:30 p.m. Middlefield Community Agriculture Commission, Center, 7 p.m. Town Hall, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25 Board of Selectman Ethic’s Commission, Budget Meeting, Library, 7 p.m. Town Hall, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26 Middlefield Board of Education Student government Achievement, Central Office, 135 Pickett Lane, calendar 9 a.m. Senior Citizen Board, (Unless otherwise indiDurham Activity Center, cated, all meetings are held 1 p.m. in the Community Center.) Board of Education, Strong Monday, Feb. 3 School, 7:30 p.m. Board of Selectman, 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27 Thursday, Feb. 6 B oard of Assessment Park and Recreation Appeals, 3 p.m. Department, 6:30 p.m. Middlef ield Housing Economic Development Authority, 3 p.m. Commission, 7 p.m.
ongoing demographics/ enrollment study which is a central component of any long term district plan developed in response to declining enrollment trends. The series of workshops build on each other and residents are encouraged to attend workshop three whether or not they attended earlier workshops. Children age three and above are welcome. Ageappropriate activities will be provided. Current or former students are encouraged to attend. Comments also can be submitted to survey@rsd13.org or call the Board of Education at (860) 349-7200.
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The RSD13 Board of Education invites residents of Durham and Middlefield to participate in the third community workshop regarding the development of a utilization plan for district schools. A session will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 7 to 9 p.m., at Coginchaug Regional High School auditorium (snow date Feb. 20). Workshop 3 presentations will focus on the feasibility of a narrower range of options based on community comment and feedback received during the first two community workshops. In addition, there will be a presentation of the
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Tree pruning workshop Coginchaug Area Transition has scheduled a free fruit tree pruning workshop for Saturday, Feb. 15, 9:30 a.m., at Allan’s Tree Service, 220 Jackson Hill Road. The workshop focuses on pruning and growing fruit trees. Dress warmly and bring pruning tools. In the case of inclement weather and for more information, call (860) 539-1466.
Friday, Feb. 14 Casual bridge - The Durham Activity Center, 350 Main St., schedules casual bridge every Friday at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome. For more information, call Jim Martinelli at (860) 346-6611. Boys basketball - CRHS vs. Cromwell at CRHS, 7 p.m.
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has scheduled a free fruit tree pruning workshop for Saturday, Feb. 15, 9:30 a.m., at Allan’s Tree Service, 220 Jackson Hill Road. Dress warmly, bring pruning tools. For more information, call (860) 539-1466. Ukulele Club -The Middle-field Ukulele Club is scheduled to meet Saturday, Feb. 15, from 9 to 11 a.m., at the Middlefield Community Center, 405 Main St. All ukulele players are welcome. For more information, call Cindy DiLauro at lucyr1953@
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Friday, Feb. 21 Boys basketball - CRHS vs. Haddam-Killingworth at Haddam-Killingworth HS, 7 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 24 Boys basketball - CRHS vs. Enfield at CRHS, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 26 Boys basketball - CRHS vs. Valley Regional at Valley Regional, 7 p.m.
Friday, March 14 Square dance - The 4C’s Square Dance Club has scheduled a dance for Friday, March 14, 8 to 10 p.m., at Brewster School, Durham. The caller is Jim DeNigris; the cuer is Sue Lucibello. For more information, call (860) 349-8084 or (860) 828-5978. 60842R
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Senior Happenings
The Middlefield Senior Center, 405 Main St., has scheduled the following events: Senior Exercise Class meets every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning at 7:45 a.m. Class is free to those 60 years of age and older. (No class on President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 17.) Friday, Feb. 28, at 1:00 – February birthday celebration to celebrate February birthdays.
The Middlefield Senior Center has scheduled the AARP Safe Driver Course for Tuesday, April 22, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Senior Center, 405 Main St. A fee is charged. The course is a combination of discussion, lectures and videos. There are no tests. At the completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate good for a discount on auto insurance. For more information and to register, call (860) 349-7121.
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The Healthy Cooking Demonstration has been rescheduled for Monday, March 10, at 1 p.m. Laura Falt, of Waters Edge Center for Health & Rehabilitation, will demonstrate how easy it is to make comfort food. For more information, call the Middlefield Senior Center at (860) 349-7121.
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The Senior Center senior/ disabled bus seats 12 passengers plus two handicapped seats. The bus that transports seniors to out of county doctors’ appointments and twice a week trips. The bus is free; participants pay for their lunch. To reserve a spot on the bus, call (860) 347-5661.
For more information, call the Senior Center at (860) 349-7121.
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Chores Jennifer Roth of Middlefield; Eric St. Armand of Rockfall. University of Vermont - Kristen Ciarlo, Zachary LaVigne, Anne Linden of Durham. Wake Forest University, North Carolina - Matthew Gueble, Jacob Teitelbaum of Durham. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts Jeffrey Ducki of Middlefield.
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Rockfall. Springfield College, Massachusetts - Michael Mastroianni, Jessie Maniscalco of Durham; Marissa Puchalski of Middlefield. University of Hartford Edgar Carrasco, Ross McCain of Durham; Tyler Berry of Middlefield. University of Rhode Island - Kathryn Carria of Durham; Katie Bednarz, K ristopher Selvaggi of Middlef ield; Nicholas Mazzotta of Rockfall. U n ive r s i t y o f Ne w Haven - Emily Carria, Kevin Donovan, Aaron Norowski, Laura Reimer of Durham;
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laundry, my husband says, “I’ll bet you can’t get all of your books picked up in two minutes.” If that doesn’t work, he’ll pit the kids against each other. “Whoever is finished putting their clothes away first wins!” Wins what? Nothing, but it doesn’t matter. Bragging rights are as good as gold around here. Cleaning isn’t always fun, but it doesn’t have to be dull, either. My four-year-old still needs help getting excited about chores, but her sixyear-old brother understands that just doing the task without complaint means he can go back to playing with his Legos, or maybe if he’s lucky, and extra game of Super Mario Brothers.
The fifth annual Healthy Family Funfest is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 23, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Aqua Turf Club, 556 Mulberry St., Plantsville. Admission is free. The event includes health information, speakers, screenings, car safety seat information, food samples, and demonstrations. Activities include a petting zoo, obstacle course, gym and Sloper Express Train. For more information, call (860) 276-1966 or visit www. healthyfamilyfunfest.com.
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she watches Jesus die on the cross. It is written for an ensemble of women’s voices. The concert is free and open to the public. A freewill offering will be accepted. For more information, call (860) 663-2703 or visit www.newenglandchamberchoir.org.
T h e Ne w E n g l a n d Chamber Choir is schedu l e d to p re s e n t t h e Stabat Mater of Giovanni Pergolesi on Sunday, Feb. 16, 4 p.m., at the Church of the Epiphany, 196 Main St. The 12-movement piece, written for devotional use on Good Friday, describes the sorrows of Mary as
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The state’s Performance Evaluation Advisory Council last week agreed to pull back on teacher review standards and allow more time while new student testing is being implemented before tying scores to teacher performance. If that allows time to re-evaluate the entire approach I suppose you could call me “somewhat satisfied.”
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Time for a shot clock By Nate Brown
day. In other words, a really short amount of time. Unless, of course, you’re playing defense in a high school basketball game. I recently attended a CCC South Division BerlinMaloney boys basketball matchup during which the game really slowed down
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Did you know that there are 86,400 seconds in a day? Quite a large number of seconds, if you ask me. So what exactly does 90 seconds equate to? Answer: 0.1 percent of the
for me. I don’t mean that I had an epiphany, and I suddenly understood all the ins and outs of the sport. I’ve been playing the game for years; I think my knowledge of the sport is just fine, thank you very much. But the game itself literally
slowed to a screeching halt. Let me give you the scenario: After building upon a 10-point halftime lead over the opening minutes of the third quarter, the Spartans of Maloney walked the ball up the court with 1:30 left in the frame. The Redcoats were
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back on defense, packed into their impressive 2-3 zone that had helped to keep most of Maloney’s quick athletes out of the lane for much of the night. For the next 90 seconds, Maloney passed the ball around the perimeter in the hopes of getting a good shot off to extend its lead heading into the final quarter. But it never happened. Berlin’s defense was too strong for the Spartans to do anything. While this series of events was unfolding, my thought process went through a rather drastic progression through those 90 seconds that went something like this: “Berlin’s going to need to play some strong defense here to keep them from scoring again.” “Wow, the Redcoats are playing really good defense this possession; I’m impressed!” “Maloney has been completely shut down! They can’t make anything happen on offense! Berlin’s going to force a shot-clock violation pretty soon if they can keep this intensity up.” “... hold on a second ...where’s the buzzer? Where’s the whistle? Where’s the shot clock violation?” Yet, to my amazement (and quite possibly frustrated high school coaches across the nation who’ve gone through this same situation countless times) there is still no sanctioned shot clock in the high school game today. Only eight states across the country use a shot-clock at the high school level: California, Massachusetts, New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington and Maryland, where it’s only used solely for the girls. After watching those long 90 seconds unfold, I find it amazing that there aren’t more states with a shot clock in place. See Clock / Page 15
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I’m not asking for a 24-second shot clock to match that of the NBA, or even a 35-second shot clock to match that of the NCAA. I believe 45 seconds would be just fine. The worst harm it could bring to a game is if every team used all 45 seconds to their advantage every possession to try and search for the best possible shot. If that were the case, it would re-
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In football, there is a change of possession. In baseball and softball, it’s three outs, and three outs only, before the other team gets a chance. It’s about time basketball teams that play good defense started getting more opportunities on the other end of the court. It’s about time for a shotclock at the high school level.
sult in just over 10 total possessions each quarter, which could translate into a boring game. Yet I think I would rather only watch 10 total possessions than see a team struggle to defend against an endless offensive threat, when the team that is defending so well is the one which could use a forced change of possession to get back into the game.
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