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Friday, May 10, 2013
Rocky Hill council one step closer to creating school security fund
By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
Town and school officials made some critical decisions this week regarding school safety. The Town Council discussed the hiring of a security firm to evaluate schools in Rocky Hill at Volume 53, No. 19
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their meeting Monday, and created a security fund to implement consultants’ recommendations. The Board of Education officially sanctioned the plan at their own meeting Monday. Councilors decided to forego their original idea — to add nearly $900,000, designated for sprinklers at West Hill School to the security fund. They were leaning toward asking voters to approve bonding for the cost of the sprinklers in a November referendum after their last meeting. This week, however, they agreed upon a different plan. See FIRM, Page 8
At left, from left, Tom Coughlin, of Celtic Energy and John Morris, of the Wethersfield Citizen’s Energy Conservation Advisory Committee, accept a rewards check from the Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge. At right, from left, Dorene Ciarcia of the Wethersfield Energy and Sustainability Coalition and Sofia Striffler at Wethersfield’s First Annual Energy Oscars.
Celebrating a greener community Energy Oscars celebrate Wethersfield’s 2nd place finish in the Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge
By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
The $13,260 in state funding residents earned by reducing the town’s energy use by over 20 percent is truly green money. The Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge is finally exiting Wethersfield, but leaving behind a town that’s cleaner and greener after two years of energy efficiency projects. Of the 14 towns across
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Connecticut who participated in the initiative, which began in 2010 via a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2010. Wethersfield came in 2nd Place in its energy reduction. About 30 people celebrated this feat recently at Wethersfield’s First Annual Energy Oscars, held in the Pitkin Community Center. Sixteen residents were honored with awards for particularly critical efforts.
Among those was Marita Eppler, a social worker with the town’s Department of Social and Youth Services. Eppler received the Community Contribution Award for connecting residents who meet income guidelines with the Home Energy Solutions Program, to receive home weatherization at no cost. Town Councilor Stathis Manousos received the Best Supporting
See RESIDENTS, Page 5
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