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Volume 20, Number 8
Friday, February 24, 2023
Library bid process begins amid supply chain uncertainty
RECIPE FOR FUN
By Christian Metzger Record-Journal staff
Plainville’s Louis Toffolon Elementary School’s “No Bake Cooking” Afterschool Enrichment Program is in full swing. The student group makes two no bake recipes each week, and is also creating a cookbook. Recently, students in the program made homemade lemonade, which required squeezing 30 lemons. Staff member Jamie Chacho and Connor Pierce are pictured. Contributed by Plainville Community Schools
Firefighters’ union, town at impasse By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
SOUTHINGTON — Unable to agree on a new contract, town leaders and the firefighters’ union will head to binding arbitration.
Edwin Crandall, a fire department captain and union president, cited minimum staffing requirements as one of the unresolved issues. Town Manager Mark Sciota didn’t comment on the con-
tract issue other than to say it would be resolved through the impasse resolution procedures in which both sides present their case to a labor panel.
During a Feb. 15 meeting, the committee unanimously approved allowSOUTHINGTON — The ing Whiting-Turner to beLibrary Building Commit- gin the bid process for tee has taken the first what’s known as an elecsteps toward the contrical switchgear, a master struction of the new panel that distributes and structure by authorizing controls power to the construction manager building while protecting Whiting-Turner to move circuits. forward with bids for a critical piece of electrical The switchgear is one of equipment for the build- the most significant components of the project, ing. with the unit costing Despite some concerns around $112,436. Conexpressed by the Town tractors and architects Council when building stressed the importance committee members pre- of the switchgear as the sented the project plan foundational step for last week, the building construction. It’s estimatcommittee believes it’s ed to take upwards of 54 best to keep the project weeks to receive the moving forward to meet a switchgear. planned opening date of late 2024. See Library, A8
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