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Volume 20, Number 13
Friday, March 31, 2023
SOUTHINGTON SCHOOLS
Board weighs considerations for Flanders’ future By Christian Metzger Record-Journal staff
SOUTHINGTON — Discussions surrounding the future plans of Southington’s elementary schools continue, with a small coalition of parents showing up to the March 23 meeting to advocate for the future of Flanders Elementary. Lake Compounce has unveiled a lineup of national and local music acts to kick off the debut of its floating performance stage for the summer season. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
National acts scheduled to play at Lake Compounce By Christian Metzger Record-Journal staff
SOUTHINGTON — Lake Compounce has unveiled a lineup of national and local music acts to kick off the debut of its floating performance stage for the summer season. CeeLo Green, Everclear, All 4 One, Jerrod Nie-
man, and Canaan Smith are all booked as headline acts this year for the summer concert series, alongside several tribute acts that will be playing over the weekends. Country artist Jerrod Niemann kicks off the concert series on Sunday, May 28.
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Those that would have the most significant and positively-calculated impact on the district – three of the four plans put forward – involved the renovation of several of the elementary schools and the complete closure of Flanders.
The school board has made no determination as to what course of action they wish to pursue, though they must present their plans to the state before June 30 if they wish to get grant money for the project by December. Applying after that date will put them in limbo for state support until December of the following year. The residents who spoke at the meeting all live on Hitching Post Dr., the road that runs just behind Flanders, and expressed their concerns about how the closure of Flanders would impact the children in the schools as well as what the future of the property would be once it was closed.
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Concerts will then be held every Saturday up through Labor Day weekend in September, with four consecutive shows being held between July 1 and July 4th to celebrate Independence Day.
After architecture and civil engineering firm SLAM Collaborative presented their elementary facilities survey last month, they presented several future plans that the district could undertake to improve transportation flow and student distribution.
not be fit for reconstruction or renovation like the other schools, primarily due to the age and construction of the building as well as it’s location.