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Volume 19, Number 36
Friday, September 9, 2022
PLAINVILLE PUMPKIN FESTIVAL
Preparations underway for annual fall party
By Nicole Zappone The Citizen
PLAINVILLE — Summer is waning, and preparations are underway for the seventh annual Plainville Pumpkin Festival. The festival will take place in downtown Oct. 22 from 4 to 8 p.m., with a costume parade for children beginning at 5. The event will be held rain or shine. The outdoor festival will also feature live music, kids games, bounce houses, food trucks, a haunted house and over 40 local vendors, according to the festival website. All are invited to bring a carved pumpkin or decorate one in the festival’s Pumpkin Patch.
The Plainville Pumpkin Festival returns on Oct. 22. This file photo shows carved pumpkins on display last year.
See Festival, A13
Courtesy of Kris Dargenio
Bridge project end date pushed back By Nicole Zappone The Citizen
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PLAINVILLE — Town Manager Mike Paulhus recently updated residents about the Tomlinson Avenue bridge replacement. He said the project required the removal and replacement of a water
Town of Southington gets money for more fire truck driver training
line, and parts ordered in April are scheduled to ship by the end of the month. “Due to supply chain issues, the Tomlinson Avenue Bridge is now expected to be reopened by late October,” Paulhus stated in a Facebook post on Aug. 22. See Bridge, A3
By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
SOUTHINGTON — Federal money will help train local firefighers to drive fire trucks, which town officials say will speed response times.
the pump or ladder trucks. This can lead to delays, depending on which firefighters are available for a call.
“They have to either wait around (for a certified driver) or take their personal vehicle to the call, which delays personnel on scene,” Not every volunteer or career said Eric Heath, the departfirefighter is certified to drive ment’s assistant chief. “The
more people we can get in trucks on the road, the better off we are.” Southington firefighters applied and won a FEMA grant that’ll provide $141,000 in training for both career and volunteer firefighters in fire apparatus driver operation See Training, A3
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