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Fresh start Friday, October 17, 2014
Focus groups forming for Town Hall, Community Center renovation
By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
Up to 65 citizens will have the opportunity to provide key input on renovating the Town Hall and Free
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The Newington Rotary Lemonade Golf Tournament on Oct. 7 was a great success, with RBC Wealth Management as platinum sponsor for the third year in a row. Total donations over the three years to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer is at $50,000, and the big support for this event makes it grow larger every year.
Feral cat group seeks help
of Connecticut, she and other volunteers visit 58 different feral Every day for the last 30 years cat colonies in New Britain, Linda Karalus has fed hundreds. Newington, Wethersfield and Of cats, that is. Hartford’s south end. As rescue coordinator with the They’ve all been trapped, Animal Alliance Welfare League spayed or neutered then released By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
back into their territories, but still wait for their visitor to drop by and serve dinner. “That way, they can live out a normal life span and everyone’s happy,” said Karalus, who is now
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Mortensen Community Center in the near future. That includes those selected to sit on the Town Hall building committee charged with planning the project, as well as dozens of others in three different focus groups meeting this November. This will be the town’s third look into the renovation, after the
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