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NEWINGTON
Finding their ‘forever’homes
works out By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
Sarah Johnson | Staff
One of the several dozen cats available for adoption at the Connecticut Humane Society on Russell Road peers out of its enclosure. The shelter takes in several cats per day. See story and photos, Pages 2-3.
Free Volume 52, No. 33
NEWINGTON — Town officials have confirmed that two long-planned cell phone towers in Newington will not be built. One tower was proposed for Anna Reynolds School on Reservoir Road and another for Churchill Park on Main Street. The Anna Reynolds tower had received town approval but is no longer being built due to economic constraints, according to Town Manager John Salomone. Concerns expressed by Town Council members and the public over the Churchill Park location halted planning there. “I could imagine, given the economy, why the company decided not to go forth with it,” Town Councilor David Nagel said of the Anna Reynolds tower. Newington police had discussed the Anna Reynolds tower with builder Omnipoint Communications to increase service coverage along Route 9, to Westfarms Mall and into West Hartford. According to Anna Reynolds’ website, “Due to changes in market conditions involving the cell phone service carriers who planned to use the proposed
cell phone tower on the Anna Reynolds property, the project does not presently appear to be moving forward.” But the statement on the website also added,“However,because the proposal was approved by both the Board of Education and Town Council, the project could move forward at a later date if market conditions should change again.” The company would have paid the town about $25,000 a year to rent the property. “It was a business opportunity and ultimately a good thing for the town,” Salomone said, “but of course there’s some diversity of opinion on cell towers in general.” Salomone doesn’t think it’s likely that a tower will be approved for the school because of the opposition to it. “At this point we’re not going forward at all and I highly doubt that it will happen in the future,” he said. A number of other cell phone towers already exist in town, including one at Newington High School. “They were interested in that area because it is near Route 9 so there’s always more demand for coverage there,” Salomone said, “but generally the town has pretty good coverage.”