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Volume 22, Number 12
Town Manager resigns; last day is May 30 By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
Town Manager Jack Healy has submitted his resignation to the Town Council and plans to take a position with another town.
Numerous tree stumps now line Worthington Ridge, which residents say was known for its canopy. Eversource said regular cullings are needed to prevent damage to power lines. Devin Leith-Yessia, The Citizen
Residents: Tree removal ruined neighborhood charm By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
“It’s more like stump ridge than Worthington Ridge.”
Some local residents say the recent culling of maple trees along Worthington Ridge by Eversource Energy has negatively impacted the character of the neighborhood.
He estimated that around 20 trees had been removed, many large maples planted after a 1938 hurricane decimated trees in the area.
“They’ve cut down all these trees and trimmed some others,” said Arthur Powers, a Worthington Ridge resident, adding that a number of neighbors have contacted him about the tree removal.
Eversource spokesman Mitch Gross said the company returns to neighborhoods every four years to evaluate trees, removing or trimming those that pose a threat to power lines.
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“My wife and I talked about it for quite a while the past couple weeks,” said Healy, who’s last day is May 30. “We felt as a family it was the right thing to do.” Healy declined to disclose his next employer or the position, other than to say he will be doing engineering work and won’t be a
town manager, because the municipality is undergoing restructuring. Healy said he will be spending the next month ensuring everything is “buttoned up” for his successor to take over. “I just want to make sure everything is laid out so whoever comes in, they’re not looking for things,” he said. “Realistically, the staff here have everything under control.” Healy was elevated to the town manager position on May 15, 2018 after being See Healy, A20
This year, the company is investing $83 million in tree work across the state, with contractors working year round. “Trees are still the number one cause of outages,” Gross said. “We also understand our customers love their trees. It’s about maintaining a balance.” While he feels not all the See Tree, A21
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Voters: BOE budget too low, town side budget too high By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
1,133 responding the budget is too high. Only 254 voted in favor of the Board of EduResidents rejected the Town cation budget as presented, Council’s $90.1 million bud- according to Republican get proposal in a referendum Registrar of Voters Susan Tuesday, April 30. Wasik. Unofficial results have 1,146 voters calling the school budget too low compared to
Berlin residents vote separately on the education and general government budgets.
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“I think the education budget is too low,” said resident Steven Joslyn. “The kids are ultimately the ones who would suffer.”
McGee Middle School is planning its 50th anniversary celebrating for June. The committee is in need of pictures, yearbooks, or other artifacts of interest to the public. Photos may be emailed to mcgee50th@edu.berlinschools.org. Also, items may be dropped off at the school. For more information, call 860-828-0323 or email surso@berlinschools.org.
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Tencza said it’s too soon to say whether those potential cuts could be restored. “We need to see what the town will put back into our budget, if anything … before we have those conversations,” he said. “Hopefully the advisory questions are honored.” dleithyessian@record-journal.com 203-317-2317 Twitter: @leith_yessian
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while 806 called it too low, ac- The corresponding mill rate cording to unofficial results. increase of 1.36 mills would have brought the rate to Both budgets returned to the 33.86 mills under the proBoard of Finance, which has posed budgets, a $238 in10 days to revise and send crease in taxes on a home them to the Town Council. assessed at $175,000. The council can approve, reduce or reject the proposal Board of Education Chairbefore sending it to a second person Matthew Tencza said referendum. he believes the referendum vote reflects unhappiThe $44.5 million education ness with the cuts made to budget voters considered in- the school board’s budget cluded $1.7 million in cuts request. by the council and finance board. The proposed $45.6 In response to the cuts, the million general government school board said it is considplan included $2.4 million in ering cutting athletics, special cuts by the finance board and council.
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Elementary school vestibule work begins By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
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Construction has begun on the first of four vestibule projects in the town’s elementary schools. Willard Elementary School Principal Matt Correia said construction at the school has been progressing well, with work scheduled to be completed by the end of the school year. The project began at the beginning of
Work at the other schools will start this summer and should be completed by the start of the next school year. Correia said workers have been accommodating of students. “They’re as quiet as mice,” he said.
Before work began at Willard, visitors were directed to the main office to sign in. Once they were through the front door, however, they could go into any of the hallways.
The vestibule would place visitors in an enclosed space where they would Willard visitors are currently only have access to the main office. There, they directed to a side entrance where a temporary office has will be run through the school’s Raptor system, been set up. which validates their driver’s license and checks their identity against the sex offender registry. PROVIDE A SERVICE? Get Found. List it here.
“I’m excited. It’s going to streamline people entering the building,” Correia said.
Memorial bricks are being sold for the “Heroes Walk” at the Berlin Veterans Memorial Park on Veterans Way. Each brick honors a veteran, living or deceased, who served in the nation’s military. The honoree’s name, military branch, unit or post and time of service are engraved on each brick before the brick is placed into the walkway of the park.
Board of Education Chairperson Matthew Tencza said the work couldn’t be done soon enough. “Right now, if you go into any of our elementary schools, once you’re in the front door, while you’re supposed to go into the office – you could get directed into (the rest of the school),” he said. “For me, I think that’s a necessary step regarding school safety.”
Anyone who is interested in ordering a brick to bear the name of a veteran who has served can get an application on the Town of Berlin’s Veterans Commission web page.
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Board hears assessment report on town schools By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
Local schools received largely positive results in a state education report, though a gap between students with high needs and their peers was evident in a presentation of the report to the Board of Education last month.
The system grades school districts on 12 indicators, including academic performance, graduation rates, access to arts courses, physical fitness and college entrance. The district was identified as being an outlier in the gap between how students identified as being high needs and the rest of the student body in performance on math assessments, although high needs students still performed better in Berlin than the state average in all areas except growth in math. Willard Elementary School was recognized as being in Deliver the top 10 percentWe of schools in the state in terms of aca-
demic growth for high needs students in English assessments. The other elementary schools also are in line with the statewide performance gap, with the outliers appearing in the middle and high school.
McGee Middle School was an outlier in the gap in math scores, while Berlin High School had a gap in math and English. Performance on science assessments was not included in this year’s reports since the state is transitioning to a
new standardized test for that material. Berlin High nearly reached the threshold to be designated a “Category 1” school, the highest ranking, which requires earning at least 85 See Report, A7
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The district scored right around its average for the past four years, since the current iteration of the system was put into place, scoring 1,012 out of 1,250 points, or 81 percent. The statewide average is 74.9 percent.
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percent of points possible. However, BHS and McGee both dropped to “Category 3” due to the performance gap. Berlin High earned 84 percent, while McGee scored a 72.
Board of Education Chairperson Matthew Tencza said he’s confident school administration will narrow that gap in the coming years. He Hubbard received 76.9, Grisnoted that Berlin has the wold had 77.5 and Willard 79 highest math SAT scores and percent of points possible. fourth highest English scores in its district reference McGurk said the accountability system provides valu- group, a bracket of two able data to help the district dozen towns demographically similar to Berlin. identify problems such as this. “I think as long as we can "Overall when we look at the provide them with the reaccountability index reports, sources … they can get we're looking at this as a tool there. I think their performance shows that,” to help give us more inforTencza said. mation about the state of student achievement across dleithyessian@record-jourthe district and to use this to nal.com 203-317-2317 inform our practices moving Twitter: @leith_yessian forward," she said. The town scored above the state targets for the number of freshmen on track for graduation, the 4-year graduation rate and college entrance rate.
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Ideal time to blend field and stream By Mike Roberts
How does Turkey ‘n’ Trout sound? Or shall we call it TNT? Either way, it means an excellent time for area sportsmen to get out into our Connecticut woods ‘n’ waters to get the best of both of our outdoor worlds. From reports coming in to us, the start of the wild turkey season in Connecticut got off to a silent start for many of our area sportsmen. The main complaint has been that the male turkeys — a.k.a. Toms, Long Beards, Jakes and Gobblers — have been rather silent the first couple of days. In my travels I have seen a few flocks of wild turkeys and most of them had numerous hens in the group being watched over by one or two male turkeys. This being the case, it might take a while before the males start sounding off with their familiar gobble, letting any hens in the area that they are available.
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flock. He is the “bully” and many of the younger males will go the other way when the Tom is around because he will beat them up for the rights to breed. It is interesting to note that a couple of the turkey hunters I have heard from did not hear a gobble on Opening Day. Turkey hunters use the gobble of the male turkey to locate the area he is in and then try to trick him in with a turkey call that mimics a hen looking for some loving. Some hunters tend to overdo the hen calling. Then there are times when a lot of calling and yelping (another hen turkey sound) is what it takes to get them in. My first couple of years of turkey hunting were laughable at best because I learned by making a lot of mistakes. However, over the years, between hunting in Connecticut and New York, I have managed a good number of turkeys during the spring hunt. During the spring hunt the
hours are from one halfhour before sunrise to noon — and only a male turkey may be tagged. Some of the adult males Design An Ad Student Contest 37 sport what is called a “beard,” a hair-like feather that protrudes from the breast of the male and can be seen quite easily. The younger turkeys, called “Jakes,” will have a shorter beard, usually 3-5 five inches, and sometimes is hard to see. If there is no dominant Tom in the area, Jakes will generally answer a hen call by a hunter. I have seen them at times actually race each other to be the first one to get the invisible hen. On the other hand, I have seen them go absolutely quiet when the big old Tom let out with his commanding gobble. When turkey hunting, I get a thrill out of just hearing the woods come alive with the approach of dawn. I usually sit for a while without calling
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PLAINVILLE- Tyler J. Ziegler, 24, of Plainville, CT, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, April 27, 2019. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he was a resident of San Antonio, TX, before moving to Plainville, 4 years ago. He was active with Youth Challenge of CT in Hartford. Tyler had an amazing talent for drawing and painting, which he was passionate about. He loved playing guitar, drums, keyboards and creating his own music. He enjoyed the outdoors, whether it was skateboarding, soccer, hiking or his newest hobby of gardening. Tyler had a kind, gentle, caring, giving and loving soul which brought happiness to everyone he met. He will be forever in our hearts and deeply missed. Surviving are his father, John Ziegler; his mother, Stacey Herbster; a sister, Kristina VinceHolt and husband Luke; two brothers, John Ziegler, Jr., (JJ), and Mark Hooper.; his grandparents, Raymond and Constance
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Ziegler, and Jim and Laura Herbster; Tyler’s beloved girlfriend, Melissa Howson; and several aunts, uncles and cousins. Tyler was predeceased by his grandmother, Sandra Herbster. Calling hours and a memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 11, 2019, from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m., at Erickson-Hansen Funeral Home of Berlin/ Porter’s, 111 Chamberlain Hwy, Kensington. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Youth Challenge of CT, Inc., 15-17 May St., Hartford, CT 06105.
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Data: Some schools have high level of unvaccinated were vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella.
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The first school-by-school assessments of child immunization rates to be released by Connecticut show scores of schools with kindergarten immunization rates below the 95-percent threshold that the Centers for Disease Control say is necessary to provide “herd immunity” for a community. The data sets posted Friday by the Department of Public Health reverses agency policy against publication, which was being challenged in a freedom-of-information complaint filed by state Rep. Josh Elliott, D-Hamden, and it comes amid a national measles outbreak and a legislative debate over whether to end the religious exemptions to vaccinations otherwise mandated. The overall immunization rates of Connecticut school children is more than 98 percent, but the newly released data show some schools with high rates of unvaccinated children, some exempted for either medical or religious reasons and others unexplained. More than three dozen schools reported more than five percent of their students claimed exemptions, while the DPH identified nearly 100 schools where less than 95 percent of kindergarten students
“You have some schools where we saw medical exemptions as high as 20 percent and that statistically seems difficult to understand,” said House Majority Leader Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, who is married to a physician. “We have pockets as bad as California was at the height of their outbreaks. So you have to take this sobering news and think about what you do next.” Locally, John Lyman School in Middlefield was the only public school to follow below the 95-percent threshold for vaccinations schoolwide. Herritage Baptist Academy in Wallingford, 93.5 percent, and Meloira Academy in Meriden, 81.5 percent, also fell below the threshold. When narrowed down to just the 2017-18 kindergarten class, the most recently available, John Lyman School, at 94.3 percent, and Hatton Elementary School in Southington, 93.4 percent, fellow below the threshold for herd immunity. Rates were not disclosed for data sets with fewer than 30 students. At the Six-Six Magnet School in Bridgeport, 15 percent of the entering kindergarten students claimed a religious exemption, as did 12.5 percent at Ryerson Elementary in Madison. At the public
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enter school without vaccinations for measles, mumps, rubella and other infectious diseases. The Catholic Church has no religious strictures against vaccination, as is the case every major religious denomination in the U.S. The release comes as the United States is experiencing the worst outbreak of measles since it was eliminated in 2000. Almost 700 cases of measles have been confirmed in 22 states, including three in Connecticut. Renee D. Coleman-Mitchell, the newly appointed publichealth commissioner, announced earlier this week in a letter to school superintendents that the department would be posting the schoollevel detailed information to raise public awareness of immunization rates in local communities. In the letter, she said that more awareness “may lead to increased engagement and focus on increasing immunization rates to reduce the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases.” “Today’s data from the state Department of Public Health
bears out what many of us feared,” said Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven. “The immunization level is dangerously low in a significant number of schools and communities putting the public’s health at risk. This is a matter of grave public health concern.” Ritter, the House leader, said he and his staff were trying to digest the data, which he says must be reviewed with public-health and education officials. “But there is no question the number is shocking,” Ritter said. Rep. Vincent Candelora, RNorth Branford, cautioned against an overreaction. There have been only three reported measles cases in Connecticut, and he has yet to see a rationale for the state to overrule parents who object to some or all childhood vaccinations. Despite a widespread medical consensus about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, some parents question their need or their safety. “It’s about balancing the public health with the indiSee Immunization, A14
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Obituaries KENSINGTONClyde Arthur Selner, 68, of Kensington, husband of Betsy (Brown) Selner, passed away peacefully at home on Friday, May 3, 2019. Born in Hartford, he was the son of the late Arthur W. and Evelyn (Seibert) Selner. Clyde met his wife at Berlin High School and graduated Class of 1968. He was a 1977 graduate of CCSU and, in addition, he also earned a master’s degree and sixth year certificate from SCSU. Clyde served in the U.S. Navy from 1970 to 1974 as a hospital corpsman with the highlight being the year he spent in Ethiopia. He also served for five years with the Navy and Marine Reserve Unit in Hartford, CT. Clyde taught Earth Science at South Windsor High School for over 30 years, teaching hundreds of ninth graders whose names he could never remember. He was a member of the National Science Teachers Association, to which he submitted presentations for conventions regarding “Consilience Between Science and Religion”. A staunch advocate of preserving open space, Clyde was a founding member of the Berlin Land Trust in 1988, and formerly served on the Wetland Commission. He spent his years teaching, as well as his retirement, in pursuit of the conservation of land in town. A consummate hoarder of everything useful (and some things which were not), Clyde enjoyed spending his retirement in the garage organizing what could not be organized. He dabbled in crafting items to sell on eBay, sometimes without success, but made
K E N S I N G T O N Dickinson G. MacNulty, 94, of Kensington, passed away on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at the Jerome Home in New Britain. He was the husband of the late Helen “Janet” MacNulty. Born in Simsbury, CT, he was the son of the late Raymond and Leontine (Dickinson) MacNulty. Surviving are his son, Scott MacNulty of Kensington; his daughter, Karen Kaine of Roanoke, VA; and his two granddaughters, Jacquelyn Rogers and Megan Aubrey. He was predeceased by his brother, Bradford MacNulty. Dick graduated from Trinity College and served in the U.S. Navy during WWII on the U.S.S. Yorktown. In 1948, he joined the Bridgeport YMCA Staff, working with youth. He spent his summers at Bridgeport YMCA Boys Camp Hi-Rock as Program Director and later as Assistant Director. In 1958, he became the CEO of the Torrington YMCA, and in 1962, he oversaw the acquisition of Ouleout, turning it into both a day camp for youth and a family recreation center. In 1972, he became the CEO of the New BritainBerlin YMCA. In both
with enjoyment. His “dad jokes” were told with his dry sense of humor and impeccable timing, greeted by eye rolls and laughter from his family and friends. Clyde truly enjoyed the great outdoors, showing his grandsons how to feed the birds and sharing his property with animals both wild and domesticated. In addition to his wife, Clyde leaves a son, Alexander Selner and wife, Amber; his four grandsons, Brody, Iain, Aidan and Craig; his brother, Arland Selner and wife Patricia; his sister, Babette Wrobel and husband John; his mother-in-law, Shirley Brown; and his sister-inlaw, Barbara Reynolds, as well as many nieces and nephews. Calling hours will be held on Friday, May 10th, from 4-7 PM at EricksonHansen Funeral Home of Berlin/Porters, 111 Chamberlain Highway, Kensington. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Berlin Land Trust, Inc., P.O. Box 94, Berlin, CT 06037. Please share a memory of Clyde with the family in the online guest book at www. e r i c ks o n h a n s e n b e r lin. com.
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Torrington and New Britain, he oversaw substantial fundraising projects to rehabilitate the facilities. After retiring in 1987, he taught YMCA management courses and volunteered in the community, teaching 55 Alive and parenting classes. Dick was a loving, caring husband, father and grandfather. He was an active member of the United Methodist Church, serving as a lay leader. He loved nature and was an avid fisherman and golfer. A private service will be held at the convenience of the family. Burial will be in Maple Cemetery, Berlin. Memorial donations may be made to Camp HiRock (camphirock.org). Erickson-Hansen Funeral Home of Berlin is in charge of arrangements.
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Immunization
Parents are now able to exempt their children from the vaccination requirement for medical or religious reasons. In addition, students with proof of immunity to certain diseases such as measles or mumps may be counted as vaccinated.
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The data show that many of the schools with high rates of unvaccinated students are Christian academies and Montessori schools.
“[W]hen almost all the children have immunity, a disease is much less likely to appear at the school and infect children who have not been vaccinated,” she said in the letter. “Herd immunity is achieved when the vaccination rate in a community is high enough to protect unvaccinated children.”
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Ritter and Rep. Liz Linehan, D-Cheshire, the co-chair of the legislature’s Committee on Children, were non-committal about pursuing legislation before the session ends on June. 5. “It’s certainly not something that we can decide overnight, so I look forward to a continuing conversation,” Linehan said. “If She said that this is especial- we did decide to go ahead and eliminate the religious ly important for medically fragile children who cannot exemption, some of these schools would be hitting the be safely vaccinated but are less able to fight off illness if herd immunity rate. We need to continue to look at they are infected. that. That’s an important “Consequently, this informa- point.” tion bears special importance to the parents or This story originally apguardians of such children, peared on the website of The who may wish to access inConnecticut Mirror, www.ctformation about their mirror.org. child’s school vaccination rates for their child’s protection.”
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just to see if there are any turkeys in the area. Believe me when I tell you, if they start to gobble your heart rate will jump just a bit. When you enter the turkey woods it is usually dark and you should try to do so as quietly as possible. One time I went in to my spot in the dark and sat down to wait for first light. Imagine my surprise when the first gobble came almost over my head. (NO, I did not get that turkey.)
Here in Connecticut, the spring season for wild turkey opened April 24 and runs until May 25. You can hunt wild turkey on both private land and state lands. On state lands, you can harvest two bearded turkeys and on private land you can put your tag on three. You must have the proper licenses and permits, consisting of either a firearms hunting license or a small game and deer hunting archery permit, plus a Connecticut resident game bird conservation stamp. So why not give TNT a try to make your day in the great outdoors a memorable one?
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Business, municipalities advocates yet to take a stance on tolls By Mary Ellen Godin Record-Journal staff
Both the Connecticut Conference for Municipalities and the Connecticut BusiAs Gov. Ned Lamont pushes ness and industry Associafor highway tolls, groups that tion have rarely avoided takadvocate for businesses and ing positions on controvermunicipalities haven’t desial issues. But since tolls clared support or opposiwere raised in Lamont’s tion. budget in January, neither group has taken a stance.
“We’ve been quiet on tolls because we have a level of frustration,” said CCM executive director Joe DeLong. “Tolls, like sports betting and legalized marijuana, are taking away from the number one issue, unfunded pension liabilities.” DeLong added that CCM wants to see a toll plan before taking a position. “We’ve made it clear our leadership supports this conversation (on tolls),” DeLong said. “But they don’t want to sign off until we have a plan.” As the main lobbying group for the state’s towns and cities, CCM has felt some pressure to take a stand, especially following a growing number of anti-toll resolutions passed by town governments.
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Few of the female saints celebrated by Catholicism have been mothers. It seems that virgins, many of them nuns, have been preferred. In an interview with Serene Jones, carried recently in the New York Times, she suggests that through the centuries Christianity promoted the view that sexuality is sinful which led to the historic oppression of women, an oppression which had the strong support of the church. Dr. Jones is president of Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan, where I studied for the ministry.
apparently into a poor family, yet married the Roman emperor Constantius. Some scholars have suggested that she was his concubine rather than his wife. In any case, they had a son who became Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome, who elevated his mother by declaring her Empress Augusta. The church designated St. Helena as a saint before the current process of canonization was adopted in the 12th century.
Many relics were rescued by a human chain, organized under the heroic leadership of Fr. Jean-Marc Fournier, chaplain of the firefighters. About 500 firefighters fought the blaze and saved the main towers and other important parts of what has been regarded by many as the world’s finest example of Gothic architecture. The extent of damage done to the huge organ, to some of the windows, and to other parts of the cathedral is still being assessed. The name Notre Dame, of course, is the French rendi-
tion of Our Lady, and there have been 37 representations of the Virgin Mary in the cathedral. Except for Paris, more tourists, about seven million annually, travel to Lourdes in southern France than anywhere else
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Part of that cross has been kept at Notre Dame Cathedral, along with the Crown of Thorns, pressed upon the head of Jesus at his crucifixion. Religious statues atop the cathedral had been taken down a week before the fire, to be returned later as part of an on-going restoration. The fire likely was related to the restoration, perhaps ignited by some electrical mishap, possibly by a worker’s cigarette.
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St. Helena spent considerable time visiting the Holy Land (326-328), and financing churches there, among them the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, built where tradition says Jesus was crucified and buried. She also is credited with An exception is St. Helena who can be connected to the bringing back the True Cross on which Christ died. How Notre Dame Cathedral and was it identified? St. Helena to key relics that have been allegedly found three crosses venerated there and elseburied at Calvary and took a where. While her story incritically ill woman to them. cludes pious legends, she Two crosses had no effect, was an important figure in but she was cured immediearly church history. She ately when she touched the was born in about 248 in third one. Asia Minor (now Turkey),
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movements in the water, including rolling their shoulders front and back, walking back and forth on the pool floor, stretching their legs with the help of a pool noodle, twisting their hips and other exercises designed to help flexibility and strength. “Something about the water allows us this pathway to communicate that normally we can’t do,” said Laurie Kapozzi, a helper for participant Jane Pinciaro. Kapozzi aided Pinciaro in extending her legs and floating.
“When you submerge yourself up to your shoulders in water you lose 90 percent of your body weight,” Drescher said. “They’re able to do a lot more here in the water than they can do on land.”
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COMMENTARY: Lamont’s 100 days report card By Don Pesci
Well, that didn’t take long. Morning Consult tracks the favorable and unfavorable ratings of governors across the United States. According to the rating service, Gov. Ned Lamont’s favorability rating is hovering around 33 percent 100 days into the new administration. The bulk of the discontent can only be attributed to disappointed expectations. Ironists – if there are any such creatures among Connecticut political watchers – will dwell on the as yet unexamined ironies. How did it happen that an electorate that had registered such profound disappointment with Malloy never-the-less elect as his successor another Democrat who managed to acquire, after only 100 days, an approval rating that puts him in 5th place among the lowest rated governors in the country?
There are various theories bouncing around that may square this apparent circle. 1) Pogo was right. The enemy is us. Some days ago, an intemperate Speaker of the State House, Joe Aresimowicz, characterized town governments that had passed resolutions against prospective toll taxes as “moronic.” Aresimowicz beat a quick retreat, but not, some of his critics supposed, because the Speaker had suddenly perceived the vital connection between municipalities and state governance. Not at all. Reelected to office with a very slender margin, Aresimowicz likely felt the hot breath of discontent at the back of his neck. No fool, he grudgingly apologized for calling moronic municipal politicians who disagreed with a new tolling measure that they regard as moronic.
2) Trump sunk Republicans. In the off-year presidential election, sticks and stones really did break bones, according to this theory. True, there were very few Connecticut Republicans hurling Trump accolades from Connecticut rooftops; and true, Trump’s name did not appear on any Connecticut ballot; and true, the worm in the Trump apple – that the president colluded with the Ruskies to deny St. Hillary Clinton her ordination to the presidency – had yet to be exploded by the much anticipated Special Council Mueller Report; and true, the tribunes of the people could hardly be expected to approve of a president who had condemned all too frequently as fake newsmakers from his Twitter soapbox … but still … 3) The Republicans ran a lousy campaign, top-heavy with economic jeremiads,
nient, outworn formulation: Connecticut is suffering from a revenue not a spending problem. As long as it remains possible to discharge state debt by raising revenue, Connecticut politicians who owe their seats to politically muscular organized labor and superior voting numbers need never pluck up the courage to cut spending. Among Democrats, permanent, long-term cuts in spending are political planks leading over shark infested waters. 4) Mathematics is determiBroadening the tax base or, native. Republicans are sim- better still, imposing a proply outnumbered by gressive tax on the state’s Democrats in Connecticut, redundant millionaires; enand it is numerology that is larging the margins of so driving Democrats ever furcalled “fixed costs,” i.e. costs ther from the centrist polithat timid legislators lack tics of, say, Democratic Gov- the courage to cut; and ernors Abraham Ribicoff and pushing onto future generaElla Grasso. tions costs Democrats find it inconvenient to reduce, 5) Dominant Democrats all are measures that save have now reverted to an older, more politically convewhile Democrats campaigned as usual on “social issues.” Then too, the Republican’s white-hatted gubernatorial prospect stumbled badly when he announced that he had planned to rid the state of its income tax incubus within ten years. The vow, it was said later, was aspirational -- somewhat like The Green New Deal, which envisions cars disappearing in 20 years, just in time to save the planet from ecological destruction.
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Caught up in the political moment, it’s all too possible for so-called “reformist,” more-of-the-same governors to forget even recent political lessons and simply assume—see Einstein’s definition of insanity – that doing the same thing over and over will yield different results. Lamont is a protégé of the tax and spend policies of former Governor Lowell Weicker, the father of Connecticut’s income tax, and tolls are to Lamont what the income tax was to Weicker – a new stream of revenue that will swell the reputations of non-moronic, leftist politicians such as Aresimowicz, at the expense of long suffering, liberty-loving taxpayers who, placed on the tax and regulation griddle, will move their dwindling assets to politically
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Lamont’s far from rousing election to office and his dipping favorability rating in the Morning Consult poll are indications that Connecticut voters were perfectly willing to give a leg up politically to a politician who appeared during his campaign to be open to reversing the course of the state’s nose-dive into economic and political chaos. But the polling results suggest that Pogo may have been right. Voters in Connecticut may be their own worst enemies.
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trees needed to be culled, Powers lauded Eversource for getting permission from landowners and added that he can’t blame the company for trying to prevent power outages. With the trees gone, Powers said the issue is now the stumps. Public Works Director Mike Ahern said the town isn’t responsible for removing stumps on stretches of land between the sidewalk and road, and Gross said it’s the responsibility of landowners to remove them.
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