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Mixed feelings Friday, May 15, 2015
What a catch!
Council split over state transit bill
By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
NEWINGTON — Elected officials in Newington are not synonymous in their opinions of a controversial state bill that would create an agency to guide developVolume 55, No. 20
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ment around Connecticut transit stations. House Bill 6851 would establish the Connecticut Transit Corridor Development Authority, an 11-member authority to stimulate economic development near transit districts. This includes areas within a half-mile radius of Newington’s two CTfastrak stations, at Newington Junction and the corner of Cedar Street and Fenn Road. See CONTROVERSIAL, Page 6
The Wethersfield Parks and Recreation Department, in collaboration with Connecticut Outfitters, Metropolitan District Commission and UNICO of Wethersfield, sponsored the fifth annual Good ‘Ole Fishing Derby Saturday, May 2, at the Spring Street Pond. Prizes were awarded for length and the smallest and most unusual catches. See story, Page 5.