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Volume 18, Number 7
Friday, February 12, 2021
Connellan to retire this summer By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
ous school year but didn’t want to leave the district in a lurch during a pandemic. He’s spent 45 years in education.
Superintendent of Schools Tim Connellan will retire this summer according to an email he sent Monday. Connellan said he’d considered retiring at the end of the previ-
“It has been a privilege to work for the children and families in my own community for the past six plus years,” Connellan wrote. He lives in town. “The Southing-
ton public schools provide a wonderful education experience for students and their families and I am proud to have been part of that during my time working in Southington.” The school board hired Connellan in 2014 to replace Joseph V. Erardi Jr., who left Southington
to becomes Newtown school superintendent.
Connellan was Oxford schools superintendent when he was hired in Southington. He’d spent seven years as superintendent in Bethany. See Connellan, A2
Town Council passes gay rights resolution; town plans pride week
SOUTHINGTON GRAND LIST
By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
Town councilors unanimously approved a resolution in support of homosexual and transgender residents Monday after lengthy discussion and the addition of sexual minorities to the letter.
Applegate Estates is seen here off Flanders Street on March 22, 2019. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
Taxable property totals, assessments rise By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
property value.
A revaluation of properties in town and new housing construction led to a jump of 6.7 percent in total taxable
The total of taxable real estate, personal property and vehicles is compiled yearly in the grand list. Town officials released the 2020 list
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this week which will be used to set the tax rate for the 2021-22 budget. Without raising the tax rate, taxable property added to See Grand list, A14
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The resolution was
See Resolution, A2
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