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New approach to addiction A grade emphasizes help, not arrests school By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff

Town police officers could begin making fewer arrests for drug possession and more referrals for drug addiction services and other help for users. On Monday police officials announced the town joined the Heroin, Opioid Prevention and Education (HOPE) initiative along with area police departments, hospitals and addiction recovery services.

more of an option.”

“We’re not going to arrest our way out of this problem,” he said.

By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff

Hartford HealthCare and the hospital group’s Behavioral Health Network is providing the services.

Southington police made 166 drug possession arrests in 2016 and 2017, according to FBI statistics.

One of three town elementary schools could get a new name following a Board of Education committee’s decision to honor former teacher, administrator and board member Zaya Oshana Sr.

Southington joined New Britain, Berlin and Newington in the effort. Palmieri said opioid addiction doesn’t discriminate between classes.

“It’s not a get out of jail free card,” Palmieri said. “This gives the officer

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Oshana, whose son is on the school board, was the longestserving school board member, with 34 years. He died two years ago.

Memorial Day events honor our veterans

South End, Flanders and Plantsville schools are under consideration. While there’s support for honoring Oshana, some Plantsville parents have started a petition to keep the school’s name unchanged.

A wealth of activities are scheduled for this weekend to honor veterans.

This archival photo of a Beecher Street School Memorial Day event is from a collection of photographs Participants of this year’s taken in Southington, May annual Memorial Day Pa1942, by Charles Fenno rade will form at Derynoski Jacob, on assignment with Elementary School’s lower the United States Office of parking lot on Eden Avenue War Information. Read more and step off at 10:30 a.m. about Jacob’s local wartime The parade will take the fol- photography project in this week’s Seen and Heard, See Memorial Day events, page 10. A20

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Deputy Police Chief William Palmieri said rather than an arrest and the possibility of a court-ordered treatment program, officers can decide to forgo charging someone with possession of drugs or a drug paraphernalia in lieu of referring them to services such as a recovery coach.

The school board’s facility naming committee scheduled a meeting with parents of all three schools at the John Weichsel Municipal Center for Tuesday, May 21. See Schools, A5

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‘Time is critical’ Christine Gagnon, a Southington resident, spoke in favor of the program at Monday’s press conference. Her son Michael died two years ago after having an addiction to drugs including heroin. Gagnon said access to recovery services at the right time might have saved his life. An officer providing information on treatment to an addict may do that. “It’s widely known that if someone is asking for help, time is critical and the window is small,” Gagnon said.

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truly deserve to get arrestthat can prevent an overdose ed,” he said. “That’s where death, several years ago. Lowe need to focus our efforts.” cal school nurses, firefighters and EMTs are also trained to Pat Rehmer, Behavioral use the drug. Health Network president, said there have been 44 Palmieri said there’s been a times since November when shift in recent decades from police being just enforcers of officers declined to arrest drug laws to being part of an and instead sent addicts to addiction prevention system. treatment. “This program focuses on treatment rather than criminalization,” she said.

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Terri Carmody, chairwoman of the committee, said there was plenty of support to recommend Oshana. “There doesn’t seem to be any objection to the naming happening for Mr. Oshana. There might be some concern over which schools want it and which schools don’t want it,” she said.

“It’s quite a wonderful biography,” Carmody said. She served on the board with him for two years. “No one has any objection to Mr. Oshana himself. There’s no question they feel he is worthy.” Once the committee recommends a school be renamed, the decision must be finalized by a two-thirds majority of the nine-member school board. That will likely take place in late June, according to Carmody.

Carmody was aware of the petition and opposition from some Plantsville parents but An online petition to keep hadn’t heard directly from the Plantsville school name anyone yet. unchanged had nearly 150 signatures on Monday. Sign“We have to as a committee ers said the Plantsville name listen to what the three honors two brothers and schools have to say and business owners who helped make a decision,” she said. establish the section of The school district’s naming town. policy starts with a petition Ebenezer Howard Plant and from residents to name a Amzi Perrin Plant formed building after prominent The Plant Manufacturing Co. person who worked in eduin the mid-1800s along the cation and is worthy of spebanks of the Quinnipiac Rivcial recognition. er. The petition for Oshana was Carmody said she’d restarted by Angelo Coppola, a searched that with the Hisformer assistant superintentorical Society and couldn’t dent, and Beecher Lajoie, a find any direct link between former Thalberg school Amzi and Ebenezer Plant principal. and the school’s name. Oshana was a fifth-grade South End School is off teacher and vice principal. South End Road. He also taught at the Univer-

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School Notes Mercy High School announces valedictorians, co-salutatorians for the class of 2019

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Town Council passes $152.8M budget By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff

In a host of votes May 13, some along party-lines, the council trimmed a recommended budget and passed a final spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year. Councilors passed the budget, eliminating a stipend for a deputy town manager, and reduced the suggested raise for Town Manager Mark Sciota’s executive assistant. The council unanimously passed a 2019-20 fiscal year budget of $54 million for the town. It passed a budget of $98.8 million for the Board of Education in a 7 to 2 vote.

Sciota argued for the deputy town manager stipend, which would be given to a department head as compensation for additional work. He said the deputy is needed to help with the dayto-day management of the town now that the town attorney is an hourly, contracted position. Sciota was deputy town manager and town attorney before he was hired for the top spot. Republicans said Sciota could use the support and a designated replacement if he’s incapacitated or on vacation. Democrats said it wasn’t necessary and could lead to further spending. Council vice chairwoman

Dawn Miceli, a Democrat, said she opposed filling the deputy town manager role when she voted to hire Sciota. “You’re headed down a road with regard to another employee for the Town of Southington,” she said. “We’ll see in a couple of years.” The five Democrats prevailed over the four Republicans on the council to eliminate the stipend from the budget.

Kelly Morrissey and Chris Poulos, voted with Republicans to maintain funding for two new hires. Many firefighters attended Monday’s meeting and cheered the vote. Seven councilors of both parties supported the $98.8 million education budget and two Democrats opposed it. Councilors said they were disappointed that the school district hadn’t worked harder to reduce expenses with Republican councilor William Dziedzic calling it the most frustrating vote of the night.

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hear about school district efforts to reduce positions or spending. “I can only urge the district and Board of Education to get creative, to look at things from another angle,” she said. “Show the town you’re being resourceful, then you’ll be rewarded,” With the spending plan passed, the mill rate would increase .16 to 30.64. Each mill represents the number of tax dollars levied on every $1,000 of assessed property value. jbuchanan@record-journal.com 203-317-2230 Twitter: @JBuchananRJ

Craft Kitchen to add patio, outdoor alcohol sales

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Craft Kitchen will add a patio along with outdoor beer and wine service following town approval last week. The restaurant will double its seating after adding a patio behind the Meriden Avenue building.

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and outdoor alcohol service on May 14 The restaurant got approval for indoor beer and wine sales earlier this year. Board Chairman Joe LaPorte said businesses in that location have wanted alcohol sales for years. “It was a long time coming,” he said. See Craft Kitchen, A8

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Wartime photographer captures community life, circa 1942 By Olivia L. Lawrence The Citizen

This Memorial Day, I’d like to share a link to a fascinating website that features 55 historical pictures of Southington that depict the life and times of the community during World War II. Through photo collections, maps and other documents, the website “knowol” offers glimpses into life around the country during various historical eras, unusual building ventures and unique communications (such as how an 11-year old girl convinced Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard.) You can easily get lost clicking through the offerings, many of which have a patriotic theme or tribute to the resourcefulness and adventurous spirit of America. The extra long link to the Southington photos is: https ://www.knowol.com/ information/connecticut/ historical-pictures-southington-ct/ but if you want, just do a Google search for 55 historical pictures of Southington and that should work, too. The collection of Southington photos found here are from a collection created from May 23-30, 1942. At that time, photogra-

pher Charles Fenno Jacobs was on assignment with the United States Office of War Information. Knowol referred to this as “an agency that created and distributed propaganda at home and abroad.” This series of pictures Jacobs created is called “An American town and its way of life, Southington, Connecticut.” How interesting that Southington was chosen for this coverage, I’d love to know how that came about and if the town was the only one that got this treatment or if he did similar projects elsewhere. The images Jacob’s captured show the everyday doings of people as they went about their lives. (All information here is taken or adapted from the website as is allowed, according to its terms of use.) For instance, there’s a photo of women standing outside of Oxley’s Drug Store, at the corner of Center and North Main Street. The store opened in 1889 and served

Photographer Charles Jacobs took this photo of Southington’s Memorial Day parade in 1942 as part of a collection of pictures he compiled for the U.S. Office of War Information. Town Hall is on the left.

the Southington community for more than 100 years. There’s also a photo of Mrs. Ethel Oxley at work in the family drug store. There’s Monty’s Diner and next door is the Wigwam and Redmen’s Club. If you zoom in you can see a sign for “steamed hamburgs.” Monty’s Diner was open 24 hours a day during the war to accommodate shift workers in the town’s defense plants, but business declined in the postwar years and Monty’s closed in 1964,

according to the website. Dimitrios Giorgios, who came from Greece, ran a soda fountain shop and there’s a photo of him making banana splits. The website states: “Dimitrios wasn’t here long before the country entered World War I, but he immediately joined the American Legion. You can see his ‘God Bless America’ sign hanging in the background.” Other photos provide views inside of First National Gro-

cery Store as well as the old fruit and vegetable stand for White Birch Farm. There are several photos of local orchards and farmlands. You’ll see folks relaxing on their porches, pictures of local characters and notables and many photos dipicting school days; kids in classrooms, taking the bus, saluting the flag and running out to recess. In one photo, boys collect paper for the war effort with a wagon that reads See Seen, A11

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Reaching out on age limit Southington has joined Meriden, Wallingford and other municipalities in raising the minimum age to 21 for buying tobacco and vaping supplies. The intention in all cases is to discourage young people from taking up smoking — or vaping, which also often involves nicotine, an addictive substance. The decision by the Town Council was not unanimous

— arguments against enacting such ordinances have been made in various towns — but Southington is to be commended for having a plan to reach out to merchants, visiting businesses to notify them of the new minimum age for tobacco purchases. The Southington Town-Wide Effort to Promote Success and the Police Depart-

ment held two information sessions to let store owners know about the new rules and to provide them with age-limit signs. Some businesses have reportedly been told by teens who formerly were able to buy tobacco that they were "grandfathered" in under the new ordinance, but that’s simply not true — the age is 21. Period.

Tobacco use, the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States, is actually down substantially (by roughly onehalf since 2011) among middle- and high-school students. But the use of e-cigarettes (“vaping”) is increasing so wildly that U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams has declared vaping an epidemic, citing statistics that show teen use of e-cigarettes increased by 78 percent in

the past year. Thus the concern. In addition to nicotine, many of the liquids used in e-cigarettes contain flavorings that medical authorities believe are designed to attract young users. For example, “Apple Pie,” “Bubble Gum,” “Peppermint” and “Cotton Candy” are just a few of the flavors offered by one company. Furthermore, the scientific See Editorial, A11

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community has very little information on the long-term effects of vaping on young people. Whether ordinances such as the new one in Southington will stem the tide of vaping is unclear, because teens can simply go to a nearby town that doesn’t have such a restriction. And it seems likely that many teens are buying, or will buy, their vaping sup-

But Southington and other towns are also sending a message to the General Assembly, which has similar age-restriction proposals before it this session. This is not unlike the municipalities that have passed resolutions against bringing back highway tolls. However, as with the issue of tolls, it remains to be seen whether the message will be received in Hartford. Previously published in the Record-Journal.

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In like Flynn with the Huskies Southington wide receiver goes to UConn as a preferred walk-on By Sean Krofssik Record-Journal staff

Huskies for his next tour of gridiron duty.

SOUTHINGTON — Make it a trio of Southington Blue Knights on the UConn football roster. Standout wide receiver Jacob Flynn is the latest to choose the Division I

“I’m really excited,” Flynn said. “Growing up, I’ve been a fan of UConn for a while. I thought it would be a great opportunity and be able to compete and play football at a high level.”

Flynn is a 6-foot-1, 180pound receiver. He will enter coach Randy Edsall’s program as a preferred walk-on. Last fall, Flynn reeled in a team-high 11 touchdown receptions as Southington averaged 35 points per game in going 10-0 in the regular season and returning to the Class LL state playoffs. In all, Flynn caught 44 passes for 816 yards. His performance earned him AllRecord-Journal, All-CCC and All-State Class LL honors. In Storrs, Flynn will join former Southington players Tim O’Shea and Jay Rose on the UConn roster. O’Shea recently announced his transfer to UConn from Wagner.

Southington wide receiver Jacob Flynn is on his way to UConn as a preferred walk-on after an All-State and AllRecord-Journal season in which he caught 44 passes for 816 yards and 11 touchdowns.

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Time to build a new library

rived in the U.S. as poor as one can get. He used those riches to fund a system of libraries across the nation. A library remains a place where you can feed your brain at an extremely discounted price: all you need to bring is your interest in

Those in charge of the public library in Southington recently made their case for a larger building. Built in 1974, Southington’s library is just 21,000 square feet, and it’s

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from a coach at UConn and I was kind of surprised at first. I wasn’t expecting it. But I went to UConn for a visit. I liked their facilities and how they ran their practice. I thought going to UConn would be a good opportunity and experience for me.

top accomplishments,” Flynn practice. We are a hardadded. “It’s a big D-I proworking group and we like gram. I think it will be cool to compete.” to be a part of.” Flynn, 18, played four years Flynn said having three of basketball and football at Southington players on the Southington High. He was a UConn roster reflects well starting wideout for the last on the Southington program. year and a half.

“It’s up there for one of my

“It shows all of the hard work and effort we put in every day,” Flynn said. “All of our coaches do a great job coaching us up every day in

Those who would argue that libraries have lost their context in the age of the internet should also set those misin-

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Both O’Shea and Rose are tight ends. “I started looking at a bunch of different schools, mostly Division I-AA and Division II,” Flynn said. “I got a text

terpretations aside and recognize that public libraries are as important as ever. At one time, Andrew Carnegie was the richest man in the world, even though he’d ar-

“I think it’s great he’s going to UConn,” Southington football coach MIke Drury said. “We’re excited for him that he’s put himself in this

learning. Even casual visitors can easily recognize that the Southington library is in need of an upgrade. Executive Director Kristi Sadowski recently listed the reasons why: little See Editorial, A21

position. He really came out this year as a big play-maker. It’s a great opportunity for him. He’s still training with us getting himself ready. He’s a great talent and he’s only going to get better. His best days on the football field are ahead of him.” His parents are Mike and Ann Flynn. He has a younger brother, John, and older sister, Gabriella.

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quiet place to study, a children’s section that is too small, aisles too narrow for wheelchairs, areas not conforming to current fire code, internet lines limited to a single location. Others can likely come up with their own lists. The case having been made, what remains is the question of how to go about building Southington’s library into something the town can look to with pride. The two essential elements to start with are a plan and price tag. Yes, the building needs to be bigger, but how big and what is needed, precisely? David Monti, a member of the library advocacy committee, put it about as well as it can be put recently: “Let’s start talking about vision, let’s start talking about a higher price,” he said. “I’m sick and tired of sitting here in this old building.” Yes, by all means. Let’s get on with it. Previously published in the Record-Journal.

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Family fun at Touch-a-Truck By Jeniece Roman Record-Journal staff

The sound of honking truck horns could be heard across the Southington Drive-in Saturday as dozens of local children explored a variety of vehicles at the 17th annual Touch-a-Truck event. Food, music and prizes were available to guests, in addition to a collection of vehicles including construction and tow trucks, police and fire vehicles and even a goatmobile. The event was hosted by the recreation department and co-sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary at the Southington Drive-In, 995 Meriden Waterbury Turnpike. Children had the chance to sit in the driver’s seat, grab the

steering wheel, press different buttons and explore the differences in the vehicles. Bryan Stolz, of Farmington, stood outside and watched his daughter honk the horn of a tractor. “She’s liking making a lot of noise,” he said. Stolz said he has been to other Touch-a-Truck events in other towns, but it was the first time bringing his family to this event. He said he decided to attend with his family because his daughter loves trucks. “My daughter always loves them,” Stolz said. “She loved the garbage truck in the front.” Resident Andy Cracco said it was his first time at the event and he decided to bring his family to the event after seeing an advertisement. Cracco said

he brought his daughter, who loves trucks, especially fire trucks and bulldozers, to see them up close. “We love having things to do that are free, too, so it’s perfect,” Cracco said. Jamie Sewell, of Southington Power Sports, displayed several ATV vehicles for guests to sit on and take pictures with. Sewell said the company sells a variety of machines and vehicles. Sewell said the event is a great opportunity to introduce children to these machines and vehicles by interacting with them. “It’s a great way to get people out of the house and come to an affordable event and see all of the cool stuff that you normally wouldn’t see,” Sewell said. “They’re very excited and jumping in the machines.”

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Help Wanted Electric Utility System Operator/Dispatcher Operates electric distribution substation and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for an electric utility serving 25,000 customers. Coordinates electric system switching and places equipment in and out of service during routine and emergency operations. Requires HS diploma/GED with 2 years experience in the operation of Distribution SCADA equipment and/ or switchboards used in the distribution of electricity. Experience and training may be substituted on a year for year basis. Must maintain valid system operation certification from Connecticut Valley Exchange (CONVEX) or other approved agency or be able to obtain the same within 90 days of hire. Must posses and maintain a valid State of CT driver’s license. $ 32.48 - $ 38.59 per hour plus an excellent fringe benefit package. Apply to: Human Resources Department, Town of Wallingford, 45 South Main Street, Wallingford, CT 06492. Fax #: (203) 294-2084. Closing date will be June 17, 2019. EOE.

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