Volume 20, Number 5
Serving Durham, Middlefield and Rockfall
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Friday, May 23, 2014
Middlefield passes adjusted budget By Mark Dionne
debt service, or capital fund expense. Middlefield’s budget for 2014-2015 will total With a unanimous show $17,141,301. The meeting was a conof hands, Middlefield residents at a May 19 town meet- tinuation of the previous ing passed a 2014-2015 town week’s town budget meeting. budget that will set the mill The delay gave the Board of Middlefield Selectman Ed Bailey (at left) served as moderator for the town budget meeting on May 19 attended by members of the Board of Finance and First Selectman rate at 33.92 and contains $3,619,245 of non-education, See Budget / Page 17 Jon Brayshaw (seated at left). | Mark Dionne / Town Times
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Resident crusades against pesticides
Cephalopods make Top 10 in nation By Charles Kreutzkamp The Town Times
By Charles Kreutzkamp Town Times
Durham resident Terry Bourret has been taking a stand about the use of pesticides on municipal property. “Momentum is building on this issue,” said Durham state Sen. Ed Meyer, who has been a longtime supporter of legislation that would discontinue widespread pesticide use on municipal property. For Bourret, this issue hits close to home. Bourret and her husband, Don, have been vocal advocates against pesticide use ever since their dog, Murphy, died due to complications she stated they believe were See Pesticides / Page 20
Murphy, the late dog owned by Terry Bourret, was the impetus for her antipesticide political efforts. | Terry Bourret / Submitted
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The Coginchaug Cephalopods. From left: Tyler Bjarnason, Ryan Gossart, Abby Eisner, Amelia Bianchi, Deanna Puchalski, Coach Lorrie Martin. | Charles Kreutzkamp / Town Times
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The Coginchaug Cephalopods placed 10th out of 22 in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl teams in the entire nation at their first ever national competition in Seattle, Wash. The team was recognized for this astounding accomplishment by the Region 13 Board of Education at John Lyman School May 14. It all came down to “pulse-stopping five seconds at the end,” according to Cephalopods Coach Lorrie Martin. “Coginchaug had led the entire match and was winning by one point with five seconds left on the clock
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