The Southington
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Volume 7, Number 52
Friday, December 30, 2011
Emergency response thwarts near ‘catastrophe’ By Julie Sopchak The Southington Citizen
It seems Hollywood couldn’t have scripted it any better in a wild series of events that led to an exploding tanker truck and an emergency evacuation on Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike in the intersections of Cheshire Road and Old Turnpike Road on Tuesday afternoon. At approximately 3:20 p.m., a state trooper spotted a stolen SUV from Woodbury at the Southington truck stop, and pursued the vehicle. The driver, identified as Brian Miele, 43, of Naugatuck, in an attempt to flee, crashed
Citizen photo by Julie Sopchak
Emergency vehicles line the roads surrounding the accident scene at the intersection of Old Turnpike Road and Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike. The neighborhood was evacuated. Photo courtesy of Zeke Vlashi
An amateur photographer captures the scene of the horrific accident Tuesday afternoon shortly after it occurred. He was driving with his family from Hubbard Park to Waterbury when he came upon the scene before fire personSee Collision, page 8 nel arrived.
Southington Marine gets gifts for others from American Legion By Julie Sopchak The Southington Citizen
Home for the holidays, U.S. Marine Benjamin Naylor will have a gift to take home from American Legion Post 72 in Southington. Naylor, 21, is a graduate of Southington High School and joined the Marines earlier this year after being a cook following graduation. He made contact with Post 72 past commander Steve Pin-
be awesome.” On Tuesday morning, Post 72’s building was abuzz with activity, as several volunteers worked to get laptops ready to be shipped out. Pintarich said he was preparing 20 more to go to two soldiers. Each soldier will receive 10 to give out to other soldiers. Pintarich said the process of setting up one computer takes about an hour and a
tarich, who distributes free laptops with web cameras to men and women serving so they can communicate with their families. Naylor will be taking two back to his base at Camp Pendleton in California where he will give the other one to another service member. “I don’t talk to my family [a lot] because I have a busy schedule,” Naylor said. “I talk to them maybe once every two weeks, so this will
See Marine, page 6
Southington native leads marching band to Gator Bowl By Robin Lee Michel The Southington Citizen Some people only dream of getting to a big champio n s h i p bowl and if they do, they are usually sitting in the Cayer stadium. Southington native,
William Cayer, 24, will be going to Jacksonville, Fla. on Friday, in preparation for the Gator Bowl, however, he won’t be doing much sitting around. As the band director of Amanda Elzy High School in Greenwood, Miss., during the next few days he will be leading 75 student musicians in their performances, first in the See Band, page 5
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