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Marcia Chambers | Apr 2, 2018 8:20 am
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Parents and Board of Education members gathered in the Walsh Intermediate School cafeteria recently to learn the latest updates about the school’s $88.2 million construction/renovation, including new drop-off entrances and bus routes into the school. One issue yet to be fully resolved is getting enough space to line up the vehicles for pickup and drop off.
Parents also learned that from this June to August the school itself will be closed while site work is underway. Construction will be contained, separate from the day-to-day functioning of the school.
An additional outreach session will take place Tuesday, April 3, 7 to 8 p.m., at the Mary R. Tisko School gymnasium.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 30, 2018 8:00 am
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}Did you know that Easter occurs on the first Sunday after the first full moon of the vernal equinox? And that Passover’s dates are pegged to the Hebrew calendar, also based on the lunar cycle. It starts in the middle of the month of Nisan, when the moon is full, typically falling in March or April of the Gregorian (modern) calendar. As a result, Passover typically begins very close to Easter, as is the case this year. Passover begins today, which is Good Friday for Christians, and runs until April 7. Sunday, of course, is Easter Sunday, which happens to be April Fool’s Day! Whatever your religious persuasion, enjoy the day with family and friends.
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Thomas Breen | Mar 29, 2018 9:13 am
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Seventy-five years from now, when the streets are filled with driverless cars that never speed, how will governments make up for lost traffic ticket revenue?
In a world without car crashes, what will happen to auto body shops?
And will anyone ride the trains anymore if a comfortable, convenient, affordable ride share service is just a phone click away?
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 28, 2018 9:05 am
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In a unanimous bi-partisan vote the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) has approved construction of a new $1.5 million firehouse in Indian Neck to replace the old Company 9 firehouse, now 92 years old and in need of expansion.
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The current two-story firehouse, which is about 2,000 square feet, will be demolished soon. Construction is expected to begin in mid-June and be completed by year’s end.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 27, 2018 12:12 pm
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Branford Police captured two juveniles in a stolen white Scion TC early this morning after they collided with a police cruiser near an underpass at the Eel Pot restaurant on Meadow Street. The cars collided left fender to left fender.
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Neither Sgt. Dominic Eula, the driver of the police cruiser, nor the juveniles were injured, Capt. Geoffrey Morgan said. Eula was briefly trapped in his car.
The two cars collided as Sergeant Eula attempted to enter Indian Neck Avenue from Meadow Street and the fleeing vehicle collided with Eula’s cruiser. One of juveniles was captured after Eula left his car via the passenger door and apprehended him in the rear seat of the fleeing vehicle. One juvenile suspect was captured a short time later by Ace, the East Haven Police Department’s K‑9.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 26, 2018 8:11 am
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From the stage, State Rep. Lonnie Reed of Branford took in the huge crowd at Saturday’s “March for Our Lives” on the Guilford green. She served as emcee for the event. “It looks like Woodstock,” she said.
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“You all look beautiful!” Reed (pictured) declared.
Along the shoreline, the focus of the march was Guilford, where some 2,000 people packed the green for a day of powerful words and music that was as poignant as it was uplifting.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 24, 2018 9:09 am
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The adult Shrek emerges from the Outhouse.
“Shrek,” the fictional ogre character by American author William Steig came to Branford this week in the form of a play by the same name. From all indications, the performance dazzled the mixed crowd of adults and children.
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Music Director Michael Martone ‘01, Director Colin Sheehan ‘03 and Choreographer Kelsey Mulligan ‘02 pose before the dress rehearsal.
“We lit up the theater tonight” (known as the Cathyann Roding Auditorium), said play Director Colin Sheehan. It was packed because Wednesday performance was cancelled because of the weather. Many people with tickets exchanged them for other performances.There are performances tonight and tomorrow.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 23, 2018 8:51 am
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Attorney Jim Perito outlines tentative residential proposal.
The Giordano family, who own Branford Building Supplies Inc., is considering the possibility of creating a residential Planned Development District (PDD) off Ark Road near the town-owned Tabor property.
The tentative proposal calls for 14 single-family homes on the site, which is off Ark Road at the end of Buckley Road, which is a private road. The proposed PDD would include 9.46 acres, but only about 5.8 acres would be used for development because of tidal wetlands and other issues.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 22, 2018 9:05 am
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A busy weekend, which will hopefully include melting snow. You can support the kids, whether it’s through the march in Guilford promoting stricter gun laws or by supporting Branford High School’s musical, “Shrek.” Little kids can enjoy a life-sized version of Candyland. And show your support for the Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter … who doesn’t love pasta? Got a cool event? Email sebahner@snet.net by Wednesday noon.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 21, 2018 7:45 am
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Branford parents challenged various assumptions that Branford schools are safe and secure at the Board of Education’s Communications Committee meeting at the high school on March 14, one month after a school massacre of 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Many of the parents at the committee meeting responded to the presentation offered by Hamlet Hernandez, the school superintendent, offering both criticism and their own constructive suggestions on how to improve communication between the district, students, and families. Their comments were often met with applause.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 20, 2018 8:06 am
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Abby Boyle, Jayleen Flores, Andrew DeBenedictis, Mary Olejarzyk
Abby Boyle, a junior at Branford High School, remembers the moment she took her cell phone to sign up her high school for the national student walkout to raise awareness about gun violence in the nation’s schools.
It was a moment she and others will never forget because it was part of a national event that has transformed her and hundreds of other Branford students, an event they organized.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 19, 2018 7:49 am
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“It effectively resets the clock,” said Town Planner Harry Smith after the Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission voted 4-1 Thursday to approve zoning regulation changes for Planned Development Districts (PDDs).
The time limit change was requested by developers Charles E. Weber Jr. and Al Secondino, whose property is part of the 44-acre PDD at Exit 56. The proposed commercial complex includes seven retail buildings and it also included Costco before the retailer withdrew in 2017.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 17, 2018 8:30 am
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To say that Branfordite Bridget Judd (pictured) has been very busy since early February would be an understatement. “The past month and a half have been a whirlwind,” said the 2018 Greater New Haven St. Patrick’s Day Parade Queen. “The whole experience is like nothing I’ve ever experienced before,” she said in an interview as St. Patrick’s Day formally arrived today.
Judd, a Branford native, who is the daughter of Tim and Kristin Judd, lives in Short Beach. She also works as a paraprofessional at the John B. Sliney Elementary School. She’s been busy since her selection as Queen on Feb. 3 at the New Haven Gaelic Football and Hurling Club in East Haven. She is a Gaelic football player.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 16, 2018 8:25 am
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We finally spotted some robins. Given the triple header of Nor’easters, they were either in in hibernation mode or delayed their return though some have been known to linger through the winter. Cardinals, however, do linger through the winter contrasting brightly with the snow. (See top photo.) We’re starting to hear early morning bird songs, too. Be sure to explore some of the cool events listed below that will put you in touch with your own habitat. Got a cool event? Email sebahner@snet.net by Wednesday noon.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 15, 2018 7:33 am
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Guilford is becoming the shoreline nexus for the “March For Our Lives” event planned for Saturday, March 24, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. It’s part of growing, worldwide effort, driven by social media, to call attention to the lives lost to gun violence and the need for stricter legislation. To date, more than 700 events are expected to take place.
Plans coalesced all over the country for marches in response to the shootings Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Guilford resident Frank Blackwell (top photo), a Guilford-based photographer, writer, and corporate filmmaker, began planning for the event immediately after the shooting.
“March For Our Lives” follows on the heels of the March 14 National School Walkout for Gun Control in which students all over the country and Washington, D.C., walked out of classes yesterday, calling for stronger gun control laws on the one-month anniversary of the Parkland shooting.
