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Marcia Chambers | Mar 14, 2018 8:23 am
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Emma Pierson looks determined during the heat of battle.
The Branford Lady Hornets basketball team entered the CIAC state tournament ranked 28th in the Class L Division. Their first game was on the road against the no. 3 ranked Naugatuck Greyhounds. Wouldn’t you know it? The Greyhounds played like they were overconfident against the lowly Lady Hornets and were upset, 41 – 24.
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Junior Carly Shea moves by a defender to get closer to the basket.
n the next playoff game against SCC opponent and no. 12 ranked Jonathan Law, the Hornets started out like the Lady UConn Huskies, jumping out to a 22 – 8 lead after the first quarter. “We were doing pretty much everything right in the first quarter,” said Hornet coach Justin Henry. “Talk about putting it all together.”
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 13, 2018 11:10 am
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Farmer’s Almanac
March’s lion has ensconced itself, with the third nor’easter in two weeks. Branford awakened today to Storm Skyler, which produced windy, heavy snow showers and dropped big, fat snowy ice pellets everywhere.
The school superintendent’s office announced last night that all Branford schools are closed.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 12, 2018 8:10 am
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Personnel and Finance Committee
The Board of Education (BOE) voted unanimously to approve to FY 2019 – 2020 budget at its Feb. 28 meeting. Three board members were absent, however – John O’Connor, Ellen Michaels, and Joanne Borrus.
The school budget will go to the Board of Finance (BOF) this week for discussion and approval, then to the Representative Town Meeting for final approval.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 10, 2018 9:09 am
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Local school district and state policy require that fire drills be held at least once each month in each school building and reported to the superintendent’s office. Fire drill procedure is to be used in case of a bomb threat. All students, teachers, and employees are required to leave the building.
But fire drills are not a part of life in the Branford school district.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 8, 2018 12:30 pm
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A scene from Stony
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After a long day of rain, winter snow storm Elsa took control of Branford late yesterday afternoon, depositing heavy wet snow on vulnerable trees. By midnight 13 inches of snow had fallen on the town, according to the National Weather Service. Some towns had more than 2 feet of snow.
The snow fell at about 2 to 3 inches an hour. Occasionally thunder laced the fast moving snowfall.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 6, 2018 9:08 am
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The team gets ready to take the ice.
The Branford-East Haven-North Branford co-op hockey team is on a roll. Since Dec. 27, the club won 15 of 17 games, including several CIAC tournament playoff games. The most recent victory was Tuesday’s 6 – 3 win over the Mercy/Northwest Catholic co-op team and again this past Saturday, 4 – 1 over the top-seeded Greenwich Cardinals.
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Julianna Constantinople scores in second period on an assist from Morgan Odice.
They now stand at 17 – 4 and are headed to the semifinals of the state tournament this Wednesday.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 5, 2018 5:47 pm
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With Permission
Residents are frustrated by developers’ last-minute revisions for proposals to extend deadlines for Planned Development Districts (PDDs). Property owners at Exit 56 submitted their third revision for zoning regulations for PDDs like the 44-acre plan at Exit 56, which once included Costco.
Resident Lauren Brown said last-minute changes to the proposal make it difficult for residents to respond. “We as the public spend time researching and preparing our remarks and every time we come in, something new is here,” Brown said at Thursday’s public hearing.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 5, 2018 9:30 am
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At the scene at 2:40 p.m. Friday
Stacey Rose, a concert pianist, was driving down Highland Avenue during Friday’s Nor’easter with her dog Louie, never expecting that her van would be engulfed in a huge falling tree.
“All I remember is hearing and feeling a tremendous crash on my car. I screamed. Louie bolted to the back seat,” she told the Eagle Saturday morning. “The tree fell on my hood and my front windshield smashed. My immediate instinct was to cover my head.” She said the huge tree was on property at the corner of Highland and Clark Avenues. The tree fell from the driver’s side.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 2, 2018 9:30 am
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Jazz Brunch
Winter markets are big right now. There may not be corn, tomatoes, zucchini, but there are plenty other goodies. Plan a visit to the Dudley Farm Market and the City Seed Market. And, along with a selection of everything from basic to unique, the Elm City offers a Jazz Brunch on Sundays. Oh, and be sure to stay safe during today’s “bomb cyclone.” Got a cool event? Email sebahner@snet.net by Wednesday noon.
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Marcia Chambers | Mar 2, 2018 9:00 am
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Community House Under Construction
The Public Building Commission this week grappled with the possibility of a later completion of the Community House/Senior Center due to a delay in the fabrication and delivery of structural steel. It’s a delay that shines a light on the logistics of the town handling two major construction projects at one time.
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Building Commission
One project centers on the $12.1 million Community Center and the other on the $88.2 million renovation of the Walsh Intermediate School. The topic was raised at the most recent Building Commission meeting held at Fire Headquarters.
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Marcia Chambers | Feb 28, 2018 10:28 pm
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Saying his top priority must now be the fight to preserve the civil rights of the nation’s disabled, Democratic State Sen. Ted Kennedy, Jr., announced last night he will not seek a third term this year in the Connecticut State Senate.
Earlier this year Kennedy had been seen as a potential gubernatorial candidate until he withdrew his name from that pool, as well.
Kennedy, who lives in Branford with his wife, Kiki and their two children, is a disability survivor who lost his leg to bone cancer when he was 12. He was elected chairman of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) in June. He has described his organization as the “foremost civil rights and public policy organization representing a whole cohort of people with disabilities across our country.”
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Marcia Chambers | Feb 28, 2018 8:32 am
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Spurred by the recent report of a so-called intruder at Branford High School and the recent shootings at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Branford residents turned out at last week’s meeting of the Board of Education’s Communication Committee (pictured) to request better… communication.
And in response to the Parkland shootings, in which 17 students and faculty were murdered, organizers along the shoreline are planning a march, “March For Our Lives,” in Guilford and Hartford on March 24.
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Marcia Chambers | Feb 27, 2018 9:20 am
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Beckett Avenue,
Hurricane Irene, 2011.
In the next 10 years, Branford hopes to deal with issues of sustainability and coastal resiliency.
The Steering Committee for the Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) discussed those issues, and several others, during a meeting Thursday at Fire Headquarters. The state requires municipalities to update their POCDs every 10 years.
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Marcia Chambers | Feb 26, 2018 1:51 pm
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Adrian H. Bonenberger (pictured), a former infantry officer deployed twice to Afghanistan, whose backers are strong believers in the liberal Working Families Party (WFP), plans to challenge incumbent state Rep Lonnie Reed (D‑Branford) in the November election.
He informed Reed this morning that he plans to announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Branford’s 102nd District tonight. “My platform is going to be on the left side of the political spectrum: higher taxes; legalization, regulation, and taxation of certain narcotics; a single-payer health care system similar to Europe’s; a reduction in military obligations overseas in those places we can afford to leave without causing damage; protection for workers’ rights; and an environment-first stance toward conservation as well as the energy industry,” he wrote in a note.
