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Volume 19, Number 26

Serving Durham, Middlefield and Rockfall

www.TownTimes.com

Friday, October 31, 2014

Many jobs to explore at CRHS Career Fair By Mark Dionne Town Times

On Oct. 22, Coginchaug Regional High School seniors and juniors and Strong Middle School eighth graders toured the CRHS gym, learning about different professions at the second Career Fair. CRHS transition counselor Elizabeth Shoudy, who organized the Career Fair, said the current version had See CRHS / Page 3

Voting amendment on ballot By Mark Dionne Town Times

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November opening for Pickett Lane work to be done on the projTown Times ect such as plantings, grass, and a sidewalk extension up At the Oct. 27 Board of Se- to Strong School, the road lectmen meeting, Durham will open to traffic first. The opening will ease the First Selectman Laura Francis said that Pickett Lane had traffic heading to Coginan “anticipated” target date chaug Regional High School of Nov. 14 for opening to traf- and Korn Elementary School fic. While there would still be by providing another path to

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Main Street. The project, always called a culvert repair, replaced the bridge over Allyn Brook and the underground drainage works to aid with flooding. State grants largely funded the project, which has anticipated costs of more than $900,000.

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There will be one state-wide ballot question on election day proposing an amendment to the state constitution. If passed, the amendment would allow the General Assembly to expand access to absentee ballots. The full text of the question reads, “Shall the Constitution of the State be amended to remove restrictions concerning absentee ballots and to permit a person to vote without appearing at a polling place on the day of an election?” Absentee ballots are allowed by the state constitution and the terms to qualify for a ballot are also delineated.


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