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A strong woman’s story Caution: this story contains graphic imagery that may be unnerving to sensitive readers. It is based on the true story of Sarah, a Newington resident who overcame a difficult situation with inner strength and the help of the Prudence Crandall Center in New Britain.
three children. Sarah, who was about 21 at the time, was walking by when she glanced over to pin a face to the voice complimenting her from the neighbor’s porch. “I looked at him and said, ‘ You’re trouble.’ I should have left it at that.” But a relationship ensued, and By ERICA SCHMITT Sarah credits it to her naïveté. STAFF WRITER “I was very naïve, like a little girl It all began in New Britain, emotionally.” around 2002. She soon became pregnant, but He was living in the apartment had a miscarriage due to his incesnext door with the mother of his sant violent nature, which was in part the result of heavy cocaine Free use. Sarah was going to school for Volume 54, No. 22 pet grooming and waitressing at night. They got their own apartment in New Britain nearly a year
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Carol Anest is running for state Representative of the 27th Assembly District.
Carol Anest runs for Nafis’ seat By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
A familiar face has stepped up to fill the candidacy of a seat longtime State Representative Sandy Nafis, a Democrat who has represented the 27th Assembly District for eight terms – is retiring from later this year. When Newington residents head to the polls Election Day Nov. 4, they will decide if town native Carol Anest will take on the job.
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The state legislature was never a place Anest, 52, considered before, until she found out Nafis was retiring and nudges started coming her way. “People approached me and said I should consider it,” she says. “I would never think of doing something like this before because I’ve always been behind the scenes, so I spent days and nights going over the pros and cons.” Anest has served as chairwoman of the Town Democratic
Committee since November 2007 and in the last two terms has led Democrats to gain majority over the Town Council and the Board of Education. “I thought, who would know the issues better than a town chair?” she says. “I talk to everybody in town and I have a good pulse of the needs and wants of residents.” Anest grew up in Newington and has lived here her entire life. She was the state direcSee ANEST, Page 7
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