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Volume 13, Number 48
Thursday, December 1, 2022
KINGS OF THE GRIDIRON
Youth football squad claims conference crown Record-Journal report
Cheshire claimed the seventhgrade Shoreline Youth Football Conference title Nov. 20 at Southington High School. The local squad, coached by Jeff Plouffe, opened the season 0-2, then reeled off nine straight wins, capped by a 14-0 victory over Guilford in the finals.
This rendering, courtesy of EG Home, shows part of the outline of The Reserve at Stonebridge Crossing. Contributed
PZC approves Stonebridge housing project
The champs went 6-2 in the regular season, thumped Madison 36-8 in the quarterfinals and outlasted Southington 33-24 in the semifinals. “We played Southington Week 1 and they embarrassed us, so it was special to win that game,” said Plouffe, who was assisted by Jason Tracy, Rich Roberts, Pete Selmecki, Tyler Selmecki, Mike Bowman and Sean Roberts. Plouffe has been coaching this team since the players were in third grade. They reached the championship game that year and lost 13-12. In the intervening years, they were knocked out in the semis.
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This fall, they weathered a rough first few weeks.
Record-Journal staff
Cheshire claimed the 2022 Shoreline Youth Football Conference seventh-grade championship, beating Guilford 14-0 in the final. Contributed
“After we started 0-2, we remained unified and we went on a winning streak. We were fighting for each other and we were playing for each other,” Plouffe
said. “We had a good combination of great defense, good special teams and our offense averaged close to 30 points per game.
The Reserve at Stonebridge Crossing, a housing and commerical development project in Cheshire’s north end, received unanimous approval at the Nov. 14 meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission. While the commission has heard objections by some members of the public, the project will now move forward adding 300 apartment units to Cheshire’s housing stock, along with unspecified commercial properties, just
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See Stonebridge, A11
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